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juneacademia · 2 days

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existence is a grand aspiration.

#dark academia #light academia #classic literature #literature #booklr #dark academia aesthetic #academic #american literature #study aesthetic #studyblr #english literature #gothic #romantic academia aesthetic #romantic academia #romanticism #ethereal academia #gothic literature

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bsd-bibliophile · 2 days

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Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.

H.P. Lovecraft, “Beyond the Wall of Sleep”

#hp lovecraft #american literature #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd

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burningvelvet · 1 day

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36 chapters into moby dick. some thoughts:

- take a shot every time he expresses his love for nantucket or whaling trivia

- i know everyone said it was queer and usually i've come to expect that as hyperbole but this time they weren't joking

- CHILDE HAROLD REFERENCE?!?!?!?!?! BYRON QUOTED?!?!?!?! not surprised bc it is the romantic genre which byron & chp helped inspire & he was the best selling writer in early 19c usa & is noted for his oceanic refs & he & esp childe harolds pilgrimage esp are both noted on wikipedia's "nautical fiction" page but like. i had no idea they were immortalized in moby dick

- "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian." AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

- does gay cannibal tumblr know about queequeg & ishmael?

- utterly obsessed with captain ahab for numerous reasons but does anyone else notice how similar he is to captain flint from black sails? like he's literally him but a bit older & combined with silver's leglessness.

- the part where ahab calls stubb a dog lmao

- ishmael getting worried for queequeg when he couldn't find him omg...

- "Where's that girl ? — there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with — 'no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;' — might as well kill both birds at once." MRS. HUSSEY!!!!

- i'm sure that all the focus on queequegs spirituality & his consultation with his god yojo wherein he was informed that ishmael had to pick their boat bc yojo demaded it TOTALLY won't prove to have any prophetic and symbolic consequences later on or anything

- love how the chapters are nice and short but on the flip side that means theyre tricking me into thinking i have less to go than i actually do... as long as i get more ahab i'm good i guess

-melville, at random: and now we take a break from our regularly schedule programming to give you . . . WHALE FACTS! [whips out multiple books on the history of whales and whaling, begins to recite]

#moby dick #currently reading #book reviews #book thoughts #book opinions #literature #american literature #classic literature #herman melville #childe harold’s pilgrimage #captain flint #captain ahab #ishmael #queequeg #lit #classic lit #novels #books

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feral-ballad · 3 months

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Kate Baer, from And Yet: Poems; “Idea”

[Text ID: “I will enjoy this life. I will open it like a peach in season, suck the juice from every finger, run my tongue over my chin. I will not worry about clichés or uninvited guests peering in my windows. I will love and be loved. Save and be saved a thousand times. I will let the want into my body, bless the heat under my skin. My life, I will not waste it. I will enjoy this life.”]

#kate baer #hope #excerpts #writings #literature #poetry #fragments #selections #words #quotes #poetry collection #typography #american literature #american poetry

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flowerytale · 1 year

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Janet Fitch, from White Oleander

#janet fitch #white oleander #lit #literature #american literature #typo #typography #fragments #nostalgia #*

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newvision · 2 years

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— Bob Dylan from When the Deal Goes Down on Modern Times (2006)

#zimmerman my love #Bob Dylan #modern times #when the deal goes down #literature #dark academia #aesthetic #books #poetry #light academia #academia #dark academia style #dark academia aesthetic #litblr #American literature #lyrics #music #🌧

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theoptia · 1 year

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Marie Howe, from Magdalene: Poems; "The Teacher"

Text ID: So, I thought I had to become more than / I was, more than I'd been. / but that wasn't it. It seemed rather that / something had to go. Something had to / be let go of.

#marie howe #magdalene: poems #poetry #american literature #lit #miscellanea #f

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daweyt · 4 months

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Louise Glück, from “Poems: 1962-2012; Persephone The Wanderer", published c. 2012.

#Louise Glück #Poems: 1962-2012 #American Literature #Quotes #Poetry #W #Lit #Dark Academia #Litblr

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megairea · 5 months

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I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that’s different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that’s slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.

Stephen King, Bag of Bones, 1998

#bag of bones #stephen king #contemporary prose #american literature #literature

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illustration-alcove · 1 year

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