#dailysecrethistory

[henry-marchbanks]

but beauty - unless she is wed to something more meaningful - is always superficial.

[capulets]

the secret history (1992)

[saurons]

the secret history, donna tartt — alternative book covers (insp.)

[grishae]

@thesecrethistorynet event one: favorite characters

↳ charles macaulay; “how about a kiss for your jailbird brother?”

[cressdarne]

You think I’d hurt you?.

[aegonvs]

edmund “bunny” corcoran

[hauntedwoman]

the secret history dreamcast ➝ simon van meerveene as richard papen

"I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell."

[sirgawin]

It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves? Euripides speaks of the Maenads: head thrown I back, throat to the stars, “more like deer than human being.” To be absolutely free! One is quite capable, of course, of working out these destructive passions in more vulgar and less efficient ways. But how glorious to release them in a single burst! To sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of night, with no more awareness of mortality than an animal!