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0bsessiv3s0ul · 18 hours

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"Do you understand the violence it took to become this gentle?"

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smeagol-on-my-deagol · 1 day

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PART 2

reading 'the secret history' by donna tartt for the first time, so here are my thoughts after reading through chapter 2:

[CONTAINS SPOILERS] obviously

— i was absolutely correct in my assumption that bunny actually was straight, but not quite in the way i expected (like good god man i know it was the 80s, but even richard was weirded tf out)

— BUNNY WHEN I CATCH YOU BUNNY

— love miss judy poovey

— also love how everybody outside the greek class is like "yeah they suck" or "yeah something is not right with those people" and richard hears none of it and instead is just ride-or-die for these people

— like he doesn't even fw greek like that

— increasingly cult-core themes

— no seriously "come with us in my convertible, new drunk outsider, to spend a luxurious weekend at one of my family's homes in the countryside" like richard you barley know these people

— "obsession with the picturesque" yeah i can fucking tell by the way you're not listening to a damn word coming out of camilla's mouth

— FREE CAMILLA FROM THE CLUTCHES OF THESE MEN

— don't know how much i believe richard's whole "i really didn't think about it too much" thing,, like yeah they were speaking latin or whatevs but like??? you couldn't pick up on any of it??

— so did they like try to slow-kill bunny using "natural remedies" (homemade poison) and when that didn't work they just decided to push him off a cliff or ??

— cause if they did that's fucking hilarious

— "hi-ho, the derry-o!!" girl, you are at the bottom of the food chain rn

— richard is so relatable in some ways, yet so absolutely detestable in others

— back to bunny's murder: i feel like they decided he was too annoying for too long and just wanted to get rid of him like unanimously vote him out of greek class, but henry seems to only be capable of doing things in the most dramatic way possible

— "Consummatum est."

[edit because i remembered something else i wanted to include but forgot]

— idk for what i think they've got going on with all that disappearing for a while and showing up with injuries all the time, but for now my two theories are:

1.) they're like performing rituals or like offerings to the greek gods cause they were reading about it and wanted to see if it would like do anything for them

2.) bunny went from killer to killed (i.e. they were a murder squad before they murdered him, and they're out there like committing actual homicide)

#the secret history #tsh #tsh donna tartt #donna tartt #richard papen #judy poovey #bunny corcoran #henry winter #francis abernathy #camilla macaulay #charles mcaulay #julian morrow

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secret-history-hyperfixation · 2 days

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Memes / Textposts that remind me of TSH - Part 4

Richard 🤎:

Francis 🧡:

Henry 🖤:

Bunny 💛:

Charles 🩵:

Camilla 💚:

#richard papen #francis abernathy #henry winter #charles macaulay #bunny corcoran #camilla macaulay #the secret history #tsh #tsh donna tartt #tsh textposts #tsh memes #the secret history textposts #the secret history memes

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bandaiddd · 24 hours

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Both Richard Papen and I are INTPs, what a sad sad day.

#literature #books #dark acamedia #donna tartt #the secret history #richard papen

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berryclownboy · 1 day

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shoutout to failed academic dicky boy

late to class, half assed assessments, copying off his friends homework, doing assignments the wrong way, killing his classmate

me too Richard me too

#uni is kicking my ass and i finally understand the urge to kill your annoying classmate #i too am late to class half assing my assignments and submitting work late #richard papen #tsh #the secret history #secret history #donna tartt #tsh donna tartt #henry winter

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lusterlilit · 2 days

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Recently I’ve been going about my days on an awful sleep schedule and I’ve been experiencing all these side effects (fatigue, heart palpitations, paranoia etc you get the deal) meanwhile all I can think of is Henry, a known insomniac, who was dealing with all sorts of bullshit throughout the book. Like yeah no shit he had a ritualistic orgy in the forest, no shit he wanted to poison his bff (and himself!!!) with mushrooms, no shit he was bending over backwards to make sure he didn’t get caught.

#the secret history #donna tartt #henry winter #charles macaulay #camilla macaulay #bunny corcoran #francis abernathy #great big boy #richard papen

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charlotlie · 9 months

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bitches be like “this is the best piece of literature i have ever read” and it’s either a book that took them six weeks to finish or a fanfic they read at 3 AM

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lanabanana79 · 7 months

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betryl · 7 months

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Today I discovered that a couple of TSH characters were based on actual people Donna Tartt knew at Bennington College- amongst them were students Todd O'Neal and Matt Jacobsen, who were the inspiration for Henry and Bunny respectively.

AND JUST—

There's even their own comments about it and it's so funny wait:

Here's the source

#tsh #the secret history #henry winter #bunny corcoran #camilla macaulay #charles macaulay #francis abernathy #richard papen #i wasn't expecting them to be LITERALLY them #made my day

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pagesofjasmine · 8 months

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“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”

| The Secret History

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qiornono · 5 months

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it’s that time of year again where i reread tsh for the bajillionth time so here is the greek class!!!

#the secret history #tsh #bunny corcoran #francis abernathy #henry winter #camilla macaulay #richard papen #charles macaulay #donna tartt #bookblr #my art #these are old actually! i just never posted them here for some reason?? but i really like how these portraits came out!!

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nostalgicacademia · 2 months

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“Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?”

― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

PD: Hi, I'm doing a survey on Aesthetics for my university research, anyone who knows what aesthetics are can answer and I'd be very happy!

Link to the survey

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averagepretentiousreader · 9 months

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Life is short. Drink another coffee. Read another book. Listen to your favourite song again. Hug your mom. Laugh. Cry. Dance in the rain. Push your friend off a cliff because of a milkshake.