some forgotten garden party

[currentlyderomanus]

LITERATURE MEME | 10 works of prose - (2) the secret history by donna tartt

Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.

[allileu]

the secret history wip i’ll probably adjust some stuff 

[charleslecunt]

Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.

[millymaccaulay]

new T Swift aesthetic ACTUALLY feels like she read one (1) Donna Tartt novel. it WILL be the exclusive soundtrack of the future Secret History series/movie or i’ll eat my hat

[zeitgeistluvr]

The Little Friend, Donna Tartt (2002)

[annakareninas]

The Secret History, 1992. 

[sothisispoetry]

Physically I’m here, but mentally I’m in a small classroom at a liberal arts college in Vermont maybe in the ‘80s studying Classics and toasting to living forever

[xsavages]

“Are you happy here?“ I said at last. He considered this for a moment. “Not particularly,” he said. “But you’re not very happy where you are, either.”

[hexmaniacmareen]

can you imagine being THIS cool

[owowatsdiss]

Context.

[safitheartist]

WHY IS THE CONTEX EVEN BETTER?!

[henry-marchbanks]

“are you happy here?“ i said at last. he considered this for a moment. “not particularly,” he said. “but you’re not very happy where you are, either.”

[spread-like-strawberries]

sometimes a family is a woman with no personality because of the male gaze, an angry twink, a man who didn’t know the moon landing happened, a repressed man from california, a gay anxious hypochondriac, and a clown and that’s okay

[septicaemia777]

you, a pleb: #aesthetic

john richard papen, an intellectual: a morbid longing for the picturesque

[millymaccaulay]

hey guys the Donna Tartt cinematic universe has begun

[ynuix]

mcu walked so dtcu could run

[poridge]

#10 years from now we get to see theo decker and francis abernathy fight to the death (via @donnatarttsbitch)

[millymaccaulay]

Maris Kreizman on Twitter

“"Those of us who believe that Tartt’s debut is her true masterpiece can find little solace in the fact that her first work to be adapted to

Great article from twitter! Donna Tartt + pug pics!

[theclassicssociety]

“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive”

-Donna Tartt ‘The Secret History’

[sobforsirius]

why are you so damn pretentious

its because i read the secret history one time, happens to the best of us

[millymaccaulay]

booty shorts that say REDISTRIBUTION OF MATTER on the ass