in dark reverie

side blog of @essayisms

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Old Library at Trinity College, Dublin.

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This is one part of The Duke Humfrey's Library which was added by Sir Thomas Bodley (who the Bodleian is now named after) who offered to restore it in 1598. When he was attending Oxford University, the library did not even have a ceiling as it had been stripped and abandoned during the Reformation.

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I love you, October. I’ve been due a change for a while now.

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The Duke Humfrey’s Library - the oldest reading room in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.

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The view of Oxford from St Mary’s tower.

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today's purchases 💸 in classics mode

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19/5/21 - Oxford is quite pretty on rainy days

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OXFORD

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The brightness of the day becomes the brightness of the night; the fire becomes the mirror. My friend the earth is bitter, I think sunlight has failed her. Bitter or weary, it is hard to say. Between herself and the sun, something has ended. She wants, now, to be left alone; I think we must give up turning to her for affirmation.

Louise Glück, from October in “Averno”

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ig: AccioBooksAndSunshine

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Magdalen College, Oxford

Emma Bernhoff

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You live in a very haunted house, but it’s not that bad. The voices in the basement remind you of your laundry and tell you to check the boiler, the rat size talking spider keeps the pests away and is a pretty good therapist, and the victorian ghost children are great friends with your kids.

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starting my university reading list 💫

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so i started uni last week for the first time ever and

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Biblioteca Domenicana Santa Maria Novella, Florence