Erebus et Eigengrau

"And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on." — Byron || She/Her. 27+ Greetings, I am Kat!

[shisasan]

𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟼, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[ID: I am more broken down than recovered. END ID]

[stardustempire]

[erebus-et-eigengrau]

“To lend our hearts and spirits wholly To the influence of mild-minded melancholy; All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease: Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.”

— The Lotos-eaters by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (via requiem-on-water)

[the-gwynedd-chronicals]

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[macrolit]

“Love’s Philosophy” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (b. 4 August 1792)

The fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean; The winds of heaven mix forever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In another’s being mingle– Why not I with thine? See, the mountains kiss high heaven, And the waves clasp one another; No sister flower could be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea;– What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me? - Percy Bysshe Shelley

[neptunianfairy]

[macrolit]

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”

— Isabel Allende (b. 2 August 1942)

[shisasan]

August 2-3, 1920 Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka First published : 1952

[mental-food]

„What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" “Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced - from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.“

-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Christo

[erebus-et-eigengrau]

Alexandre Dumas (b. 24 July 1802)

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Mon Cher Amour: The Love Letters of Albert Camus and Maria Casares, 1944-1959

[roua-poemului]

“There’s blood between us, love, my love.”

— Christina Rossetti, from The Convent Threshold.

[dreamyfilms]

wuthering heights (2011, dir. andrea arnold)

[shisasan]

I love you, my own darling, my sweetheart, my life . . . 24 June 1926 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

[arhygatoo]

Chrysanthemum.

[shisasan]

And I would like to write more and more and more and talk and talk, —not because I know all that much, only because I hear your heart-sounds, these deep, new ones, with all my being. 24 June 1914, [From Lou Andreas-Salomé to Rainer Maria Rilke] Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: a love story in letters (1897-1926)

[sharpenededgess]

Romeo and Juliet - (1996)