𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉

𝘏𝘖𝘓𝘔. 𝘎𝘙𝘈𝘕𝘋 𝘌𝘈𝘙𝘛𝘏 𝘛𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘌; 𝘏𝘌

[weltenwellen]

“I was once foolish enough to believe knowledge would clarify, but some things are so gauzed behind layers of syntax and semantics, behind days and hours, names forgotten, salvaged and shed, that simply knowing the wound exists does nothing to reveal it.”

— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

[recoversuggestions]

little things to do every day:

open your window and feel the air

make lists

hug someone

splash some water on your face

spend a few minutes without any screens

always have water with you

doodle 

clean one thing that’s messy/dirty

compliment someone

be kind to yourself

[blindparastish-deactivated20151]

[beautyartislam]

Mahabat Khan Mosque. Peshawar, Pakistan.

[miiriya]

[insiggious]

People have this weird belief that if you're critical of a system or tradition, then it must be because you failed to live up to that system or tradition. The idea of having a principled stance, regardless of whether or not *you* personally benefit from society accepting that stance, is foreign to so many people. And this belief is really fucking important for and beneficial to the elites of this country. If you can get the masses to equate criticizing you and the institutions you control with abject personal failure, congratulations, you've just made yourself immune to accountability

[nationalgeographicscans]

Citizens of a forgotten world, opposite Timgad- a trade center from A.D. 100 to 400, when Rome ruled North Africa. August, 1973

[nationalgeographicscans]

Artifacts excavated from the sea are cataloged to be sent to Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum and private collections.  October 1978

[erosulyssey]

recently been reading about machado de assis & i really, strongly believe others should indulge in his works as well, because while they are so so nice, he’s also incredible

1. not some child of wealth. his grandparents had been slaves, his parents worked common labour jobs in realms such as needlework, and he still managed to be a big name in brazilian academics by his 20s

2. while his ideas about women are indeed sometimes a reflection of the times, he also has some shining moments where he challenges the idea of an ideal female heroine.

3. his work is so, so good, & in my opinion a world more entertaining than hemmingway. only recently were his works translated to english, or any language besides portuguese for that matter, & it’s strongly believed that if it had been done sooner he would be considered a truly classic author

4. he uses common language but picks his words so carefully & molds them beautifully.

5. not eurocentric!!!! he was born in Rio, & lived in Brazil most his life.

just read de assis. i promise he won’t disappoint

(if it helps, ginsberg related de assis to kafka in a review of his works; de assis’s work is from the romantic period)

[erosulyssey]

the secret history is satire, not your blueprint.

[chrysalistudy]

What good books can your recommend?

some recent and some of my all-time favourites:

a single man by christopher isherwood: my favourite read from last month. it’s short (under 200 pages) and beautifully written. got me thinking about our perception of time + how differently one looks at life/people/their past experiences after losing someone. (and there is a film adaptation!)

something by kazuo ishiguro or haruki murakami, two authors i love. both of them have published many things so depending on your tastes you could probably find something that appeals more to you. i personally fell in love with ishiguro when i read his short story collection nocturnes. i think most people’s favourite murakami is norwegian wood!

if you’re looking for ya literature (i’m not an expert at all), i love everything by alice oseman (her three novels and her graphic novel heartstopper).

something by oscar wilde? the obvious recommendation would be the picture of dorian gray (which i’m dying to re-read). i recently read his play the importance of being earnest and it made me want to discover every single one of his other plays!! so good!

the comic book series sandman by neil gaiman (haven’t read the whole series and i don’t know much about comics but i couldn’t take these volumes down, very captivating, love love love the art)

the three musketeers by alexandre dumas: i’ve read that book over and over and i never seem to get tired of it (+ i’m a huge fan of the bbc series adaptation)

a little life, hanya yanagihara (still haven’t fully recovered from reading it last summer) i’m currently halfway through a non-fiction book: quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking by susan cain. it’s fascinating! i’m learning so much (about myself and why i behave a certain way and that maybe i should stop blaming myself for these things and start to appreciate them instead..)

[erosulyssey]

the rhythms of existence

-quick, messy handwriting as the brain moves faster than the hand, words barely legible to the stranger beside you,

-deep breaths taken while observing the sway of a tree, deep breaths taken while observing the sway of a tree & the subconscious action of humming along with the music of the background,

-tipsy cabinets turned to bookshelves, settled on your bedroom floor, filled with second-hand books and textbooks of the school year,

-nighttime & dusk walks around your folly neighborhood, the feeling of sweet tiredness as you take in that cooling air,

-unfinished chess, a match against yourself, sat on an empty dresser,

-jazz and classical, sometimes lou reed, played on your record player & sleepily traveling about the room,

-loose pieces of paper acting as your journal, loose pieces of paper recommending books, musicians, holding lines of your own poems & prose,

-eyes closed, head back on a pillow, as you listen to an old cd on a diskman..... better yet, legs active & pacing around your room as you listen to an old cd on a diskman,

-the deepness of thought, the trenches of imagination & cycle endless of daydreams,

-the will of you, the will that‘ll drive you to your daydreams

[firstfullmoon]

tears in my eyes...would love to have seen that dark academia post 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

aksaksj anon you want me to receive hate...honestly it wasn’t that deep it’s just i finished reading marguerite yourcenar’s memoirs of hadrian and i went on the tag to look up posts & reblog some quotes and literally the first post was “dark academia reading list ✨” and i was like shut up about dark academia shut up about dark academia!!!! esp bc some of the books on the list had nothing to do either with dark academia or each other.....there was obviously the secret history and the knock off version (i think?) if we were villains but except for these ones the recs didn’t make any sense like the hounds of the baskervilles, never let me go, some baudelaire poetry, a series of unfortunate events etc like except for dark themes? or just people being generally rude and passing that off as intellectual superiority? anyway i guess i’m just a bit over the whole dark academia aes which has been going on for literal years and it might have been cute at first but now people are being willfully ignorant of the issues it presents just because its cool...i get it i like uni and books as well and those beige and brown edits are pretty but yknow the secret history was intended as a satire and people are just glossing over that fact. anyway nothing really deep i was just a bit annoyed

[stlowens]

mary oliver’s blue iris, house of light, red bird, devotions, felicity, upstream & a thousand mornings are all worth a read

[salemwitchtrials-deactivated202]

writers in their writing spaces part 1

maya angelou / adrienne rich / clarice lispector / toni morrison / james baldwon / anne sexton / sylvia plath / joan didion / langston hughes / simone de beauvoir

[studyblr]

study tip: don‘t think about studying as something you need to do. that implies it’s some tedious process, something you can’t really enjoy, just another task ruining your day. rather, try to enjoy the process. think of yourself as someone who loves the subject, who loves studying for the sake of learning. you’re someone for whom studying comes easily, it’s just another good part of your day. if you change your identity and sense of self from someone who struggles with studying or with a particular task, it will be much easier to get done, as we always strive to stay consistent with who we think we are. think of yourself as a productive person, and it's much easier to act like a productive person would.

[smakkabagms]

Some Favorite Essays, Short Stories, Novels

Essays: 1. Helene Cixous - Laugh of Medusa  2. Anne Carson - Evil and Suffering in Modern Poetry  3. Kathy Acker - Myth of Romantic Suffering 4. Virginia Woolf - On Not Knowing Greek  5. Adrienne Rich - Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying        - Adrienne Rich - Three Other Essays  6. Alice Walker - Looking for Zora  7. Anna Klobucka - Helene Cixous & Clarice Lispector 8. Joan Didion - On Self-Respect 9. Margaret Atwood - Am I a Bad Feminist?  10. Jeffrey Meyers - The Savage Experiment: Arthur Rimbaud 11. Jennifer Nash - Practicing Love  12. Paul J. M. van Tongeren - “A Splendid Failure” Nietzche Suffering 13. Albert Henrichs -  Loss of Self, Suffering, Violence: Dionysus 

Short Stories:  1. Clarice Lispector - Love  2. Anne Carson - 1 = 1 3. Margaret Atwood - Stone Mattress 4. Amy Bloom - Silver Water 5. Gunnhild Øyehaug - Same Time, Another Planet  6. Anne Carson - Back the Way you Went  7. Tatyana Tolstaya - Unnecessary Things 8.  Kirstin Valdez Quade - Christina the Astonishing (1150-1224) 9.  Clarice Lispector - One Day Less Novels: 1. Helene Cixous - Stigmata  2. Helene Cixous - Ex-Cities  3. Helene Cixous - Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (my favorite) 4. Jean Genet - A Thief’s Journal (another link) 5. Judith Butler - Bodies that Matter 6. Clarice Lispector -  AGUA VIVA  (my favorite) Happy Holidays, friends. I hope you enjoy. - Love, E 

[grandpasessions]

[Walter] Benjamin's reflections on Baudelaire sometimes hint at the problem of time and its non-linear manifestations, especially in Benjamin's comments on the poet as 'brooder', which Benjamin opposes to the 'philosopher': 'Baudelaire was a bad philosopher, a better theorist in matters of art; but only as a brooder was he incomparable.'

The difference between a thinker and brooder is that the former '...not only meditates a thing but also meditates the meditation of the thing. The case of the brooder is that of the man who has arrived at the solution of a great problem but has then forgotten it. And now he broods, not so much over the matter itself as over his past reflections on it. The brooder's thinking, therefore, bears the imprint of a memory. Brooder and allegorist are cut from the same cloth.'

The Fall Out of Redemption

J. Acquisto

[shisasan]

𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟸𝟼, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹