Sunflowers can reach 6 to 10 feet but Lino is 9”11. Tall ass yellow man
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Arven’s dorm room man…….. hes made it such a real home for himself a place he’s always wanted
He def has a live laugh love sign somewhere
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not enough people know about the closeted gay openly an adult virgin bachelor whose season ended with him scaling a 10 foot fence so he could sprint away into the portuguese wilderness in the dead of night to hide from the producers
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“It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially” (Tartt, 31).
I am absolutely fascinated by the fame and reverence this quote from the Secret History has achieved. It terrifies me. Let me explain.
Who’s line is this? Oh, yes. Professor Julian Morrow. Julian, in his lecture on how death begets beauty, on how Dionysian madness lends immortality. Julian, who isolates the greek class, buries them in the glories of the past and in their privilege, and submerges them beneath illusions until his students can’t tell right from wrong and real from imagined.
These words are satire. This is NOT a lesson any teacher should impart, and should NOT be beloved and relatable. In one sentence, Donna Tartt summarizes the entire cautionary tale of the novel: the selective, warped, and obsessive view on life the greek class held, born from entitlement and cultivated by Julian, led the students to tear themselves to pieces.
What’s more, the way people quote it all the time makes this line all the more haunting. Widespread parroting of Julian’s teachings only reinforces Donna’s themes: human minds are easily manipulatable, it can be hard to think critically about what you are taught and what you read, and that the easy, self-assured conviction belonging to the reader that, “I, personally, would have behaved differently than Henry, Richard, Francis, Camilla, Charles, and Bunny” is nothing but another illusion.
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This is definitely not what Stoker intended, but I loved watching Jonathan ignore the locals’ warnings at the beginning of the novel because they are uneducated, superstitious peasants only to then get laughed at by a bunch of foreigners as he cries for help because he didn’t listen to said earlier warnings.
You made your bed, Jonathan Harker. Lie in it.
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I think about the time Anders says to Aveline “we’re not pals? what about that time we painted each other’s toenails?” Every day btw. If you even care
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