okay so i'm in the middle of reading les mis, and everyone knows that "be serious, i am wild' quote? well in the edition i'm borrowing it says: "Be serious." said Enjolras. "I am fierce." answered Grantaire. and i just. couldn't stop laughing because FIERCE yes grantaire is FIERCE
OH MY GOD YES OF COURSE R IS FIERCE AGH AND I THOUGHT THEY COULDN’T MAKE HIM ANY MORE GAY MY CHILD. DON’T GET ME STARTED ON EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS, I READ ONE ONCE THAT MADE HIM SAY “SAVAGE” INSTEAD AND I WAS LIKE okay babe calm down, that’s a little harsh. But yeah, at least you haven’t been victimized to the Spanish translations where they change the names bc I could not deal with Mario and Coseta and Los Amigos del ABC pls no
I swear to god the spanish editions should be illegal. I have one that actually calls Jean Valjean JUAN VALJEAN DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO HAVE TO READ THAT WITH MY OWN TWO EYES. Also the translators leave huge footnotes explaining the puns and stuff, which isn’t that bad and sometimes it’s actually funny
hot take: if the only people who can understand your writing are a select few pretentious jerkoffs like yourself, maybe the problem isn’t that you’re just too fucking smart to communicate to the uneducated masses. maybe you’re like. a bad writer lol
like uhhh not be controversial but if the point of academic writing is to share information and 75% of your readers have no fucking clue what you’re saying around that thesaurus you’re deepthroating then uhhh maybe you’re a shit academic and also a lot less intelligent than you think you are. just a concept
can you even believe that Les Misérables the stage musical ends with the most lyrical, the most beautiful poem ever written on the socialist revolution like, that’s a thing that happens and is the most powerful moment of musical theatre ever?
so wow ok yesterday night i came out to a friend for the first time in my life aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Sooo okay thing I'm gonna rable about in your askbox: there's going to be a super blood moon that is also a blue moon next monday where I live (huh, idk if all of those apply all over the world, the blue moon part obviously would be but idk XD)!!! and today I saw the moon was a cresent but I can't wait to see what it'll look like then :D
okay thats so awesome i know absolutely nothing about the universe and space and s h i t like that but everything i know sounds so cool so yay
Her name was Dolly Wilde. She was the daughter of Oscar Wilde’s older brother, and was born about 3 months after he died. She worked as an ambulance driver during WW1 and spent most of her free time banging rich ladies. And guys. GUYS.
Side note: it wasn’t just the face. People who knew both Dolly and Oscar Wilde said that they sounded very similar and carried themselves in the same manor.
Both were pretty avid smokers. They both appreciated decadence. They both had very similar lovers.
Also, because history is insane, Dolly Wilde once hit on Zelda Fitzgerald, writer and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Dolly once said of herself, “I am more like Oscar than Oscar.” And honestly yea, I get why.
Public Domain Day was yesterday, but you were probably hungover, so here’s how to download the tens of thousands of books that became legal to download for free in 2019.
Starting at midnight on January 1, tens of thousands of books (as well as movies, songs, and cartoons) entered the public domain, meaning that people can download, share, or repurpose these works for free and without retribution under US copyright law.
Per the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, “corporate” creations (like Mickey Mouse) can be restricted under copyright law for 120 years. But per an amendment to the act, works published between 1923 and 1977 can enter the public domain 95 years after their creation. This means that this is the first year since 1998 that a large number of works have entered the public domain.
Basically, 2019 marks the first time a huge quantity of books published in 1923 — including works by Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and Robert Frost — have become legally downloadable since digital books became a thing. It’s a big deal — the Internet Archive had a party in San Francisco to celebrate. Next year, works from 1924 will enter the public domain, and so-on.
So, how do you actually download these books?
It largely depends on what site you go to, and if you can’t find a book on one site, you can probably find it on another. For instance, ReadPrint.com, as well as The Literature Network (mostly major authors), and Librivox (audio books), Authorama (all in the public domain), and over a dozen other sites all have vast selections of free ebooks.
There’s also a handful of archiving projects that are doing extensive work to digitize books, journals, music, and other forms of media. A blog post from Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain listed some of the most recognizable works published in 1923, as well as links to download these books on digital archiving projects Internet Archive, HathiTrust, and the Gutenberg Project. The books include:
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links
Winston S. Churchill, The World Crisis
Robert Frost, New Hampshire
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay
D.H. Lawrence, Kangaroo
Bertrand and Dora Russell, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization
Carl Sandburg, Rootabaga Pigeons
Edith Wharton, A Son at the Front
P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves and Leave it to Psmith
Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room
E.E. Cummings, Tulips and Chimneys
In total HathiTrust, a massive digital archiving project, has also uploaded more than 53,000 works published in 1923 that just entered the public domain. Over 17,650 of them are books written in English. Similarly, Internet Archive has already uploaded over 15,000 works written in English that year.
Project Gutenberg, which has over 58,000 free downloadable books, has digitized five works that entered the public domain in the new year: The Meredith Mystery by Natalie Sumner Lincoln, The Golden Boys Rescued by Radio L. P. Wyman, White Lightning Edwin by Herbert Lewis, The Garden of God by H. De Vere Stacpoole, and The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. I’m going to be perfectly honest: I recognize exactly zero of those books. But like most if not all digital archives, Project Gutenberg had some books from 1923 available for download before January 1, 2019 (like Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf.)
If you’re interested in academic papers, Reddit user nemobis also uploaded over 1.5 million PDF files of works published in academic journals before 1923. Your best bet for actually finding something you want to read in there is to know which academic paper you’re looking for beforehand and check the paper’s DOI number. Then, search for the DOI in one of nemobis’s lists of works — one list includes works published until 1909, the other includes works published until 1923.
It’s worth noting that projects like Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg rely on volunteer efforts, so there’s going to be disparities in the number of books available for download depending on where you go. But over the next several days and weeks, it’s safe to expect many more books will become available legally and for free across the web.
Your purpose in life is not to love yourself but to love being yourself.
If you goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inward toward yourself, and you end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to summon the “correct” feelings towards yourself or fashion yourself into something you can approve of.
If your goal is to love being yourself, then your focus is directed outward towards life, on living and making decisions based on what brings you pleasure and fulfillment.
Be the subject, not the object. It doesn’t matter what you think of yourself. You are experiencing life. Life is not experiencing you.
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