56 lispenard st.

illuminations, arthur rimbaud (october 1886) - "and perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone"

[oh-dysseus]

not one day passes without me complaining about how bad the movie troy (2004) is.

i did not cry for a whole week after reading the song of achilles for this movie to pretend achilles and patroclus were cousins

[oh-dysseus]

Dark Academia in film

kill your darlings (2013)

dead poets society (1989)

the dreamers (2003)

pride and prejudice (2005)

emma (2020)

total eclipse (1995)

little women (2019)

[oh-dysseus]

"In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun."

Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles.

yeah these lines broke me

[oh-dysseus]

i just came up with a new word ahahah

cottage/gore

= basically helena bonham carter’s aesthetic

[oh-dysseus]

if i had a time machine i would go tell achilles not to give his weapons to patroclus, it’s as simple as that

[oh-dysseus]

keira knightley as elizabeth bennet, in pride & prejudice (2005) dir. joe wright

"So what do you recommend to encourage affection?"

"Dancing. Even if one's partner is barely tolerable."

[oh-dysseus]

dead poets society (1989) dir. peter weir

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"

- john keating

[oh-dysseus]

dane dehaan as lucien carr, kill your darlings (2013) dir. john krokidas

"another lover hits the universe, the circle is broken."

[hunters-schafer]

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, “O me! O life!… of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless… of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?” Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be? DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) dir. Peter Weir

[oh-dysseus]

keating’s speech :')

[bitterbloodrose]

euripides, from “orestes”, an oresteia (trans. anne carson) // dead poets society, dir. peter weir // kill your darlings // if we were villains

[oh-dysseus]

parallels.

[learnbouquet]

Dead Poets Society (1989)  dir. Peter Weir

[saint-rouge]

The Secret History Audiobook on Cassette. Read by Robert Sean Leonard

[barcarole]

Manuscript for La Riviere de Cassis, a poem Rimbaud wrote for Verlaine in the summer of 1872.

[megairea]

— Arthur Rimbaud, from Feelings (tr. by Paul Schmidt)

[patrisjournal]

[oh-dysseus]

eros & psyche

[ohevoyev]

karl bryullov, the last day of pompeii & phoebe bridgers, i know the end

[oh-dysseus]

oh to live in 1989 in a movie directed by peter weir