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Row of bookspines ranging from a boxed set of The Iliad and Odyssey to yakuza yaoi manga. There are some candles propping up the smut to keep it classy.
Title page from The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot
Rashõmon and 17 Other Stories by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and Keats and Shelley With Mrs. Shelley’s Notes
An ancient Aramaic incantation bowl (seemingly made of clay, once cracked but now repaired) with script wrapping around the insides. At the bottom is a somewhat cartoonish looking figure (no offense to the artist but I don’t know how else to describe it) with upraised arms, whose head seems almost owl-like. The important part is he’s very cute, 10/10, would invoke protection from.
O God, I do not know what deep sadness was living in my soul, but it was nothing less than the cruel conviction that I was not loved. I had glimpsed the ghost of happiness, I had used up all the gifts of God, I was beneath the most beautiful sky in the world, in the presence of the most perfect Nature, and in sight of the greatest panorama that a man might live to see. Yet I was four hundred leagues from the only woman who had ever existed for me, and who still did not even know my name. Not to be loved, and never to have the hope of being loved! The unknown woman who had presented your image to me in vain, and who had served me for the chance encounter of an evening, she had loves of her own, her own interests, her own life; so she had given me all the pleasures that can exist-except for feeling and for love. And if love was missing, it all meant nothing.
In a sense, this is exactly what happened fourteen years later. But I could go further back than 1841. I found in the story Octavie that Nerval claimed to have made a suicide attempt in Italy, during his very first journey of 1834. It had occurred on the Posilippo, that high cliff above the sea outside Naples which is associated with the prophetic cave of the Sibyl and also the tomb of Virgil, the first great classical poet who journeyed to the Underworld. These references fill the poems of the Chimères at the end of Nerval's life: Dans la nuit du Tombeau, Toi qui m'as consolé, Rends-moi le Pausilipe et la mer d'Italie...
penandinkprincess so wildly obnoxious when you agree with the starting point of someone's stance only for them to hard turn into things you DONT agree with and now you have to defend the thing that was originally annoying you "too many authors in the current market are focusing on selling 'spice' instead of telling interesting stories" "oh yeah, i agree. i started reading one that i heard a lot about and it just wasn't-" "and it's all of these women reading their fucking mommy porn out in public like FREAKS" *through gritted teeth* "people should be allowed to read whatever they want, and actually these books should be left alone and you should shut up about it" literaryroses #I DON'T WANT TO DEFEND SHITTY SMUT #BUT LAM BEING FORCED TO STAND SHIELD TO SHIELD #THANKS A LOT ASSHOLE NOW I HAVE TO RIDE OR DIE FOR THE WORST SEX I'VE EVER READ #okay i can't leave the previous tags they're too good
wittyidiot Midlife crisis? I'm a millennial, my whole life has been a crisis. What I'm doing now is rebecoming the person I was at 15 and actually enjoying it this time
Aisha, Gene, Melfina, Jim, and Suzuka from Outlaw Star
2 images from Space Ghost Coast to Cosst with the comment, “This is the greatest insult in the history of television.” In the first, Hawk Man is sitting at Space Ghost’s desk saying, “But you’re supposed to be in jail.” The second shows Space Ghost responding with “Yeah, and you’re supposed to be dumpster diving for ham scraps, you six-piece chicken McNobody.”
Helen Lovejoy saying, “Won’t somebody please think of the plagiarism bot?”
I’m on a list called Attie Haters for “Toxic accounts that blocked Attie”
LINE exchange: Me: Oh hey it worked. I sent that [previous message] by talking to the car. Him: Okay hasselhoff
Pokédex entry for Snorlax. Details state that “This Pokémon tried to sleep off its bad mood after it lost a fight, but it slept so long that dirt piled up around it, leaving it buried.“