#charles macaulay
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
-Donna Tartt; The Secret History
I just created a playlist dedicated to “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt and these songs remind me of the various characters. I can’t get this book out of my mind, but at least now I can daydream about them while listening to music.
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‘Murder is pollution. The murderer defiles everyone he comes into contact with. And the only way to purify blood is through blood. We let the pig bleed on us. Then we went inside and washed it off. After that, we were okay.’
Camilla Macaulay
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‘All right,’ said Julian, looking around the table. 'I hope we’re all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?’
—The Secret History, Donna Tartt.
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was introducing the secret history to my friend the other day and accidentally started by pointing to a picture of the characters on my wall and saying something along the lines of “see those two? theyre siblings in this book and had sex” and now nothing i say can lead her to believe that its a good book
thinking about how comical it is in a schadenfreude tragedy way that half of francis’ whole character was being repeatedly no homo-ed by charles first and then richard
