veins of morality & regrets

it was the age of foolishness | an academic | entp 3w4 |

[lovelessloverss]

the feminine urge to run away to a foreign country and spend endless days in a library

[fleuringly]

@weheartit-app/entry/174959046/via/mylittlerein

[nemfrog]

“Orbits of some comets and planets.” Natural History. v.33. 1933. 

[whencyclopedia]

The Mongol Invasions of Japan, 1274 & 1281 CE

The Mongol invasions of Japan took place in 1274 and 1281 CE when Kublai Khan (r. 1260-1294 CE) sent two huge fleets from Korea and China. In both cases, the Japanese, and especially the samurai warriors, vigorously defended their shores but it would be typhoon storms and the so-called kamikaze or ‘divine winds’ which sank and drowned countless ships and men, thus saving Japan from foreign conquest. The whole glorious episode, which mixed divine intervention with martial heroism, would gain and hold mythical status in Japanese culture forever after.

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[lovelessloverss]

11.23.2023

[lovelessloverss]

sep.

[henk-heijmans]

Pub In Dublin, Ireland, 1950s - by Hans Silvester (1938), German

[lovelessloverss]

it’s september and I feel warm amidst the cold fog and fallen leaves.

[tlirsgender]

Classic lit isn't relatable TO YOU. I have something wrong with me though

[aaaangel444]

[differentharmonywasteland]

[lovelessloverss]

pen

[days-of-reading]

Darryl Pinckney, Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan (2022)

[da-rk-ac-ad-em-ia]

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[monalira]

[lovelessloverss]

Euthyphro By Plato

[altamasansari12]

"The month of July is often associated with a sense of melancholy among individuals, while the arrival of August tends to exacerbate feelings of solitude and isolation."

Altama Ansari