Sophia | Eccentric Attachments

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Writer. Musician. Artist. 32. Bi. Neurodivergent. Southwest Germany. Ich bin ein kleiner, gelber Fisch tief im blauen Meer. What would Andy Larkin do?

Dozens of lit candles, flowers and some rainbow flags placed on the steps in front of Neue Universität Heidelberg.

Excerpt from Donna Tartt's 1992 novel The Secret History. It reads: I did know. Bunny had an uncanny ability to ferret out topics of conversation that made his listener uneasy and to dwell upon them with ferocity once he had. In all the months I'd known him he'd never ceased to tease me, for instance, about that jacket I'd worn to lunch with him that first day, and about what he saw as my flimsy and tastelessly Californian style of dress. To an impartial eye, my clothes were in fact not at all dissimilar from his own but his snide remarks upon the subject were so inexhaustible and tireless, I think, because in spite of my good-natured laughter he must have been dimly aware that he was touching a nerve, that I was in fact incredibly self-conscious about these virtually imperceptible differences of dress and of the rather less imperceptible differences of manner and bearing between myself and the rest of them. I am gifted at blending myself into any given milieu - you've never seen such a typical California teenager as I was, nor such a dissolute and callous pre-med student - but somehow,. Continues on next image.