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Enter the players. There were seven of us then, seven bright young things with wide precious futures ahead of us, though we saw no farther than the books in front of our faces. We were always surrounded by books and words and poetry, all the fierce passions of the world bound in leather and vellum. (I blame this in part for what happened.)

- If We Were Villains, M. L. Rio

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Again The Picture of Dorian Gray’s fanart (with symbolism this time,because I like meaningful stuff) because I am trash and I still cry over my sweet child Basil (More of this trash)

#the picture of dorian gray #tpodg #dorian gray #basil hardwall #henry wotton #lord henry #oscar wilde #literature #my art

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Amanda Lepore Wussy Magazine by orograph

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Day 2 of DragCon NYC. Polaroids by Allie Holloway for Harper’s Baazar (x)

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Get Ongina on an All Stars immediately

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“It had gone beyond her, beyond everything.”

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Does anyone else think “Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince” sounds like a YA novel?

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Harry Potter and the Heartbre… wait??

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Lana Del Rey & Literature

Born to Die album In “Carmen,” she quotes A Streetcar Named Desire written by playwright Tennessee Williams, singing, “Relying on the kindness of strangers.” Lana Del Rey undoubtedly gives the most attention to Vladimir Nabokov’s famous novel, ‘‘Lolita’’. She has a song with the same name, in which she sings “Kiss me in the p-a-r-k park tonight,” possibly assuming the voice of 12-year-old Dolores Haze singing to her abuser, Humbert Humbert. In another song “Off to the Races,” she describes a lover as being the “light of my life, fire of my loins,” a direct quote from Nabokov’s novel in which the narrator expresses his infatuation for his much younger object of admiration.

Paradise album in ‘’Body Electric’’ she croons “Whitman is my daddy” and “I sing the body electric.” It can be argued that her utilization of Whitman and the way in which she frames him is an authentic form of showing her connection and appreciation for him, maybe akin to the way Allen Ginsberg does so in his “Supermarket in California” poem. The same album holds another literary-reference packed song, named ‘’Gods and Monsters’’ in which she alludes to both Oscar Wilde and John Milton. She repeats Wilde’s famous declaration that “life imitates art,” and the whole song, or even whole album, strongly ties in to themes presented by Milton’s Paradise Lost on the loss of innocence.

Honeymoon album In “Burnt Norton (Interlude)’’ Del Rey reads out the first part of T. S. Elliot’s poem of the same name while elegant sounds are heard in the background.

Ultraviolence album In ‘’Money Power Glory’’ she sings ‘the sun also rises’ refers to Ernest Hemingway’s novel ‘’The sun also rises’’