#dark academia architecture
Palais Bourbon, Paris
Reminiscing about some of the traveling I did with my Professor last year.
Some folks hollered hard times
in nineteen-twenty-nine.
In nineteen-twenty-eight
say I was way behind.
Some folks hollered hard times
because hard times were new.
Hard times is all I ever had,
why should I lie to you?
Some folks hollered hard times.
What is it all about?
Things were bad for me when
those hard times started out.
— William Waring Cuney, Nineteen-twenty-nine
“A golden cage is still just a cage.”
-Anita Krizzan
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
“Show me a hero, and I’ll write you a tragedy.”
-Francis Scott Fitzgerald
️ schloss ehrenburg, coburg, germany
[summer mmxxi on iphone vii]
unrelated life update: i have been living and breathing anastasia the musical for the past few weeks, and i have no regrets. five am stage makeup sessions, six am breakfasts at the local family restaurant with the cast, skipping school to perform all morning/afternoon, meeting one of the og broadway actors over zoom, absolutely killing three additional night-time shows, and driving home from late dinners at two am…
now that it’s all over, here’s to cramming for upcoming speech tournaments and catching up on the speech class project i procrastinated on during dress rehearsal/show week! :’]
“One reads poetry because he is a member of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion! Medicine, law, banking- these are necessary to sustain life. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!” Dead Poets Society
