#classical literature

[mocha-d0ll]

"The universe is the rotting corpse of a God who killed himself"

- Philip Mainländer

[mocha-d0ll]

Neuschwanstein, Germany

Yes, this is the castle that inspired the castle that you see in the Disney intro. The scenery surrounding the castle is stunning💖. I loved learning about King Ludwig II and his obsession with building fairytale castles. I'm hoping that the next time I visit I can go see all of the other castles he built. :D

[calliopequills]

I have this theory. That what a person likes at the age of 16 is what they keep coming back to. Even when one feels they are past that age. Even when they might have gotten a taste of more intellectually stimulating experience, somehow that thing of past keeps having a grip on you.

[wordshaveteeth]

‘[I]t’s a fine thing to come to a man when he’s seen into the nature of business; to have a chance of getting a bit of the country into good fettle, as they say, and putting men into the right way with their farming, and getting a bit of good contriving and solid building done — that those who are living and those who come after will be the better for. I’d sooner have it than a fortune. I hold it the most honourable work that is.’

- George Eliot, Middlemarch

[wordshaveteeth]

‘I shall know hardly anything about you,’ said Will. ‘No one will tell me anything.’ ‘Oh, my life is very simple,’ said Dorothea, her lips curling with an exquisite smile, which irradiated her melancholy. ‘I am always at Lowick.’ ‘That is a dreadful imprisonment,’ said Will, impetuously. ’No, don’t think that,’ said Dorothea. ‘I have no longings.’ He did not speak, but she replied to some change in his expression. ‘I mean, for myself. Except that I should like not to have so much more than my share without doing anything for others. But I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me.’ ‘What is that?’ said Will, rather jealous of the belief. ‘That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.’

- George Eliot, Middlemarch

[mocha-d0ll]

I got up to the grand inquisitor in the brothers karamzov but I lowkey think I should restart because I'm scared of finishing the book because I love it so much 🥹. Also my friend who's reading it said that there's a part where Alyosha (my all time favourite character) doesn't appear for 117 pages and I can't sit through such excruciating, cruel and painful torture🥺🤧😔

[mocha-d0ll]

I started reading Jane Eyre and why is it lowkey relatable! I too feel like an 'uncongenial alien', I too feel a 'consternation of soul', and my 'Resolve, equally wrought up, instigates some strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression'.

And last but not least, I too can feel 'my habitual mood of humilation, self doubt, forlorn depression, falling damp on the embers of my decaying ire'.

But I also feel so bad for her like my poor baby🥺🥺🥺