#english lit student
april 24, 2019
studying at a new cafe near me, a levels are getting close and the workload
april 11 + 12, 2019
two very good days, writing essays in my favourite cafe and the best picture of me (with the pink and purple hair) at the environment march in london
Larry Decker’s character development, a summery:
Raskolnikov anytime he speaks to anyone after the first part:
‘We shall go and suffer together,’ Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
‘The people who have nothing to lock up are the happy ones, aren’t they?’ From Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky
‘Even when they love it’s as if they hated’, Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky.
Just found out goodbye is an abbreviation of god be with ye, decided my go to farewell is now ciao
(Potentially) unpopular opinion: the goldfinch is better than the secret history
I want to live in a pastoral poem, preferably not ‘the passionate shepherd to his love’ but I’d much rather a bed of thorns than whatever hellscape I’m living now
Larry Decker in the midst of trying to steal his child’s money:
Readers of the secret history:
I have no purpose on this Earth other to be small, angry and consume literature at a rate someone mentally stable could never achieve
Okay everyone talks about Hozier and Taylor Swift being lyrical geniuses that the romantic poets would kin, I get it, I do. BUT CAN WE PLEASE APPRECIATE THE TERRIBLY, CRINGY SONGS TOO! Sometimes in the midst of a undoubtably preteen marketed song is a gem that leaves me an existential mess for months.
The quote in question for me is from Ruth B’s ‘Lost Boy’ : my only friend was the man in the moon, and even sometimes he would go away too. THE POWER, THE EMOTION, THE LONELINESS. Brb gonna cry with the stars for a while
my biggest pet peeve with books is when they suddenly switch languages without writing in the translation. Like damn author u really out here assuming I’m multilingual :,)
I finished my undergraduate degree in English Literature and Drama today!
aforementioned stolen legal pads from a few days ago when tumblr wouldn’t let me upload pics
Summer showers the first week of fall
Excerpts from the Exeter Book:
“The Seafarer”
“The Wife’s Lament”