lord, help my poor soul

zoe ｜she/they｜22 literature, philosophy and a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs

[plaid-poppies]

I feel like people tend to forget that The Secret History does not take place in Oxford in 1886 but in the US...in the 1980s... while Burger King is literally mentioned by name.

[helenvaughans]

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

–Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

[seedranger]

yes im mysterious and read serious literature

[shlorpmlorp]

Ah yes, Henry Winter, my favourite Triple A representation (autistic, aroace, asshole)

[plaid-poppies]

one of my favourite scenes in tsh will always be the one where bunny confronts richard about henry after their italy trip

bunny: henry is not what you think he is

richard: omg… omg he must be gay… must be a sex thing… a gay sex thing

[sorrrowfull]

[demadogs]

so fucking sick and twisted and EVIL when youre too tired after work to read. that activitys so good for the soul why must life be too exhuasting to endure it.

[panulyx]

Headcanon that Richard was devastated when John Lennon died

Richard: "Damn, I'm still sad John Lennon is dead"

Henry:"Oh, was he a friend of yours?"

Richard: ????

[pottetto]

THE SNOW in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.

instagram | bluesky | patreon

[superbusmeretrix]

rest in peace henry winter you would’ve fucking hated disney’s hercules

[plaid-poppies]

“I used to think that I could imagine all passions, all feelings, all states of the heart and mind; but how little did i know what it is to be mingled with another being! Thou only hast taught me that I have a heart – thou only hast thrown a light deep downward, and upward, into my soul”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne in one of the 109 love letters he wrote to Sophia Peabody

[lizzyaka-deactivated20250320]

One thing i can yap and yap on about for ages is the fact that the greek class cant for the life of them grasp the fact that bunny is upset by the murder of the farmer

When henry is telling the story of the bacchanal to richard, he says bunny couldnt understand how serious the situation was because he was freaking out which is funny, because he was the only one who understood

Henry also said that bunny wasnt upset about the murder but rather about the fact that theyd gone without him, and that he couldn't possibly care that theyd killed a man because he wasnt "exactly the most moral man" as if u needed to be fucking gandhi to realize that killing someone is wrong

When bunny started acting out they were all convinced he was doing it out of spite or to get under their skin, completely ignoring the signs that showed he was having a complete nervous breakdown and was slowly losing his mind because of what they had done

This is because they themselves did not see the act as something that was morally wrong, but rather an inconvenience for them. Like francis said, it wasnt voltaire they killed. They were so out of touch with reality that they lived not in this world but in one where morality doesnt exist, one they are the center of where the gods personally descend to be by their side. They lived in their ancient tales and greek poems. Bunny was the only one who was grounded and they cant understand that. It doesnt even begin to cross their minds. And its the same with bunnys death, they dont care about the morality of it because in their mind they are closer to gods than to humans and gods do whatever they please. They can kill a farmer and who cares? Its not like he was voltaire. They can kill their friend and who cares? Heroes kill and heroes die all the time.

this distance between them and the real world is the most important part of their characters because it explains everything else, from the incest to henrys suicide. Bunny was the only one who was rooted to reality which is what always set him apart from the rest and most importantly why things started to spiral out of control as soon as they killed him. He was their anchor to the real world and to sanity.

[shakespearesdaughters]

[cigarettesandbacchanals]

To be honest if I saw Henry Winter on campus and he walked past me I’d mumbled ‘smash’ just so he could gave me a weird look and he’ll think about me for the rest of his day.

[plaid-poppies]

“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless.”

Donna Tartt. The Secret History. 1992

[plaid-poppies]

a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs

[shoujoubeat]

Rip bunny corcoran you would've loved over-using the word demure just to piss henry off