[macrolit]

Happy birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (b. 22 May 1859)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“In you was the sea.”

— Max Hölzer, tr. by Beth Bjorklund, from “The Summer’s Cold,” c. 1962

[happyheidi]

[derangedrhythms]

I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.

Sylvia Plath, from ‘The Bell Jar’

[lilllium]

—Kitchen Mckeown, from Outbreaks

[deadreckon-deactivated20230712]

odysseus hijacking the odyssey and forcing it to go from third person omniscient to first person vs moby dick gradually slipping from first person to third to a chapter written as a play after which ishmael has to reintroduce himself in order to regain control over the narrative. Fight

[bestyouuniveristy]

You’re always going to be young in someone’s eyes and old in someone else’s, talented to one and terrible to the next. The worlds never going to agree on a definition of what you are so you might as well ignore that shit and be whatever the fuck you wanna be for yourself.

[quotemadness]

“Never, never tell them. Try and remember that. Never tell anyone anything ever. Never tell anyone anything again.”

— Ernest Hemingway

[jewfrogs]

the heroides aren’t ovid’s best work by any means and dido to aeneas is repetitive in parts but g-d it still gets me. i would argue that it has some of the rawest lines in latin literature

[fvae-moved]

*trips over our red string of fate*

[cordaterings-deactivated2021090]

when oscar wilde said "i'm tired of myself tonight, i should like to be someone else' and when sylvia plath said ''i wish i knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart" and when rilke said "this heavy humanness" .

[pascalfrancesca]

Ig: pascalfrancesca_

[flores-et-dracones]

Homer’s Iliad & Odyssey

[seal-of-unknown]

me, begging, tears in my eyes: please. please just tell me what the book is about. the plot. please

a book annotation on the cover, unfazed: A Subversive Masterpiece. A Deep And Touching Story. The New York Times Bestseller. Go Fuck Yourself

[omnybus]

The bar was so low it was practically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here you are, limbo dancing with the devil

[xshayarsha]

“My love will not injure you: it brings no ships to punish you, it conceives no wars.”

— Ovid, from Heroides; Oenone to Paris.

[eloise-studies]

This is so accurate, does anyone else relate to this?