Are you happy here? / Not particularly

Carpe noctem. -H.M.W.

[wretched-things]

If you read The Song of Achilles without reading The Iliad first, don’t even breathe in my general direction.

[therealrichardpapen]

[caughtinorbit]

“Death is the mother of beauty.” “And what is beauty?” “Terror”

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[shisasan]

December 16, 1930 The early diary of Anaïs Nin, 1903-1977

[beyondstyx]

Vincent van Gogh, Kop van een skelet met brandende sigaret ( Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette) ; 1886

[graceland-to]

does such a thing as the fatal flaw, that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? i used to think it didn’t, now i think it does. and i think mine is this, a morbid longing for the picturesque, at all costs

[thefallenauthor-deactivated2023]

"Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not."

-Donna Tartt; The Secret History

[wretched-things]

It seems I have nearly reached 160 followers. Uncertain why, but thank you, regardless.

[wretched-things]

I will be in Milano, Italy over the coming two weeks. If you wish to contact me over mail while I am abroad, please inquire about my address there. I will have no operating phone line, so don't attempt calling me.

[wretched-things]

A quick thank you and welcome to my new followers. I am not as active on here as I used to be, but I hope you enjoy your stay regardless.

[illustratus]

Imaginary View of Rome with Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, the Column of Trajan and a Temple

by Hubert Robert

[silvermoonshinesilknight-deacti]

I read. Obsessively. Because, when I read, there is purpose to my loneliness.

[therealfrancisabernathy]

I need to write an essay on what ruined Roman Empire so who wants to join and check all the theories in practice before we choose the most important ones?

[wretched-things]

Misperformed perfection. That's what ruined the Roman Empire.

[dionysian-mystery]

[vida-imensa]

Frank

[daugterofliterature]

drink your coffee. read your books. it's chaos out there.

[thoodleoo]

oh dude. dictuque nefas might be one of my new favorite phrases in vergil

[thoodleoo]

like. nefas is a hard word to translate- it's something that goes against the gods, so horrible that it should not even exist, a sort of horrendous that is difficult to fit into a single english word- but at its core it literally means "unspeakable." and so vergil has taken this word of dread, the opposite of divine approval, and combined it with dictu: "to speak." hence we get a phrase that means something like "horrible to say," but at the same time meaning it is something so terrible, so awful to even think of, that it is almost "unspeakable to speak"