[intothedreamverse]

White Nights, Fyodor Dostoevsky

[mournfulroses]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in "Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends,"

[metamorphesque]

"Crime and Punishment", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

[petaltexturedskies]

When Dostoevsky said, "Pain changes you, but it teaches. That is its mercy." but Kafka said, "Pain changes nothing. It just repeats itself until you forget who you were before it started."

[da-da-sk]

[mournfulroses]

Jeanette Winterson, from "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal," publ. in 2011

[120daysofsodomm]

#nature

[brianstowell]

[zandrapaints]

the cozy interior that started it all :')

I was painting mostly house portraits for a few years and then I saw the reference picture for this on Pinterest and knew I had to paint it! I fell in love with creating cozy scenes after and never looked back

[ad-wills]

[vangoghcore]

by huulari85

[paxterhobber-deactivated2023100]

[perfectquote]

“The people who are meant to be in your life will always gravitate back towards you, no matter how far they wander.”

— Robert Tew

[ernmark]

Just learned about garden path sentences.

They’re basically a literary prank– the sentence starts out in such a way that you think you know where it’s going, but the way it ends completely changes the meaning while still being a complete and logical sentence. Usually it deals with double meanings, or with words that can be multiple parts of speech, like nouns and verbs or nouns and adjectives.

So we get gems like

The old man the boat. (The old people are manning the boat)

The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families. (The apartment complex is home to both married and single soldiers, plus their families)

The prime number few. (People who are excellent are few in number.)

The cotton clothing is usually made of grows in Mississipi. (The cotton that clothing is made of)

The man who hunts ducks out on weekends. (As in he ducks out of his responsibilities)

We painted the wall with cracks. (The cracked wall is the one that was pained.)

[weltenwellen]

Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home

[weltenwellen]

Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home

[seekingstars]

For the New Year, 1981 - Denise Levertov