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We don't need to learn from the Greeks and Romans because of what they said, thought, sang, but simply because they were, because they existed, because, like us, they were poor men who swam desperately as we do against the tides in the perennial disaster of living.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, 'The Misery and Splendour of Translation'

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et tu?

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i cant believe that wymack tells the foxes to ignore his unpolished speech and then pulls out the hardest fucking line in modern literature

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Hi Neil! When you were casting Patton Oswalt as Matthew in Sandman did you always know he would be a cgi raven or did you consider having Patton dress in a raven costume and play it completely straight?

Patton plays Matthew dressed in a raven costume, and stands far away from the camera to make him look small.

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All images taken from pinterest ♡

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on the topic of Threes (nobody was thinking about it but me) remember how persephone teaches adam to knock on his tarot cards three times because “they like that” ??? because it’s a practice that shows respect and intention — it is a way of acknowledging that you are opening a communication with the cards, asking them for help.

ok well. do you ALSO remember how after ronan’s mom dies he refuses to get out of his car because he’s waiting for gansey to tell him what to do, to tell him what the next step is??? and how adam is the one to stay and BEFORE GETTING IN THE CAR HE KNOCKS THREE TIMES ON THE ROOF OF THE CAR???? because it’s a sign of respect, it’s a way of entering a space, a line of communication in an intentional way that makes your presence known????? because he wants ronan to feel comfortable with him, feel respected by him, feel aware of him, known by him.

pynch. makes. me. crazy.

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― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (translated by George Reavy)

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kill John Lennon. KILL JOHN LENNON!! (yes unfortunately im whiter than a piece of paper) SO ENJOY THE FINGER REVEAL

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There's no reason for any character to be a cop like was Nancy Drew a cop? Naur she was just nosy as hell and I respect that

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I am naïve enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know people profoundly enough.

- Harold Bloom, "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human"

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Most sports books are like “I need to win championships so I can prove myself!!!” and then there’s The Foxhole Court where the main character is like “yeah so if I don’t win championships I will literally be executed because when I was 10 my serial killer father tried to sell me to a cult so my assassin mother stole $5 million from the yakuza and ran away with me, but it turned out that my dad was friends with the leader of the mafia, so now we also had a bunch of hit men after us, and almost a decade later my dad caught up with us and killed my mom and I faked my death, so I decided to join a college sports team to start my new life, but then I found out one of my teammates is a runaway from the cult my dad tried to sell me to, and not only that but the cult’s leader is the brother of the head of the Japanese mafia, so now both of them are after me too, and also the FBI keeps trying to convince me to testify against my father, but if I do I’ll have to go into witness protection because my dad’s friends will try to kill me and I can’t be a professional athlete while under witness protection, but luckily my uncle (who is the leader of the British mob) brokered a deal that will assure my safety if I win championships as long as I hand over 80% of my salary to the mafia for the rest of my life.” And that’s only the main character, I haven’t even mentioned how insane some of the side characters’ backstories are!

Basically this is the most unhinged book I have ever read and I love it so much

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What are our learned men save the descendants of witches and hermits who crouched in caves and in woods brewing herbs, interrogating shrew-mice, and writing down the language of the stars?

Virginia Woolf, 'The Mark on the Wall'

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““A reading major, that’s what he wants. No response papers, no exams, no analysis, just the reading.””

— Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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my roman empire:

the day I meet Donna Tartt this will be the first thing I ask her