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Elephant Rock, Iceland

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*hysterical fanning intensifies*

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Sonnet for President Trump

Shall I compare thee to a Shakespeare play? Thou art less clever and less literate, But how else should poor poets have their say? Alas, our leader lacks a donkey’s wit! Sometime too fierce the fire of ego burns, And when a man is made to look a fool, He rages ’gainst the mockery he earns, As little boys will cry when teas’d at school. But thy eternal tantrums shall not wane, Nor shalt thou e’er unclench thy tiny fists, Nor listen when the people dare to say, “’Tis you, dear sir, who made a scene of this.”         So long as men can breathe and speech is free,         The Bard shall speak and show thy shame to thee.

(4 July 2017, in honor and defense of freedom of artistic expression)

#beautiful

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Today I learned that the university of Coimbra in Portugal has a great 18th-century library, the Biblioteca Joanina, that maintains a colony of bats to effectively control the population of paper-eating insects called papirófagos. These bats are less than an inch long. They roost during the day behind the bookcases and come out at night. There doesn’t seem to be any English word for papirófago, a cursory search turns up no details about what sort of insect they are, and ngl I am slightly concerned about them as a phenomenon. But I think my overarching point here is clear: 

This library keeps tiny bats that look after the books.

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I wish I could store the random motivation I get at 3AM in a kind of battery, to recharge myself with the next day.

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Happy birthday Shakespeare. Thanks for your brilliant plays, massive contribution to the English language, and your bisexual sonnets which have been annoying homophobes for centuries.

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Conservation at the Bodleian.

The retrofit of Weston Library gave us the room and facilities needed to preserve our world-class collections for the world. 

If you think that’s cool, consider voting for us in the RIBA Stirling Prize public vote!

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a note to all aspiring novelists…

sometimes you should just use “said”

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Giveaway Contest: We’ve partnered with Flatiron Books to give away FIVE copies of M. L. Rio’s highly anticipated (and critically praised) literary thriller If We Were Villains! To enter, you must: 1) reblog this post, and 2) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check ;P). Easy, right? We’ll randomly choose one winner on each of the following dates: 11 April (the day If We Were Villains is released), 19 April, 25 April, 2 May, and 9 May. This is an international giveaway. Good luck! Listen to the Prologue Pre-order here

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does anyone else go to take a sip of their tea/coffee and then realise you’ve already drank it all and just have a moment where you’re just like: betrayal

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Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away ten vintage paperback classics by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Harper Lee, Walt Whitman, George Orwell, and others. Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will randomly choose a winner on April 22, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

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Giveaway Contest: We’ve partnered with Flatiron Books to give away FIVE copies of M. L. Rio’s highly anticipated (and critically praised) literary thriller If We Were Villains! To enter, you must: 1) reblog this post, and 2) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check ;P). Easy, right? We’ll randomly choose one winner on each of the following dates: 11 April (the day If We Were Villains is released), 19 April, 25 April, 2 May, and 9 May. This is an international giveaway. Good luck! Listen to the Prologue Pre-order here

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I’ve found my new favourite library — this one in Dresden (Saxon State and University Library). It has a very unique atmosphere and it’s opened until midnight 🌚  Where is your favourite library? 

#thats my library

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By Selena Rhodes Scofield 

Taken with www.eaglewingtours.com

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10 Alternative Titles for The Picture of Dorian Gray:

• 101 Times Lord Henry Should Have Shut His Cynical Whore Mouth • I Kissed a Boy, and More Embarrassingly, My Own Portrait, and I Liked It • I’m a Murderer, but Everything is Perspective • Although I’m a Complete Wanker, I Am Infact a Victim of Suggestion Under the Influence of Another Complete Wanker • Narcissism and Consequences • If You’re Not Young and Pretty You May as Well Just Die • Personalities Don’t Seem So Ugly When Surrounded With Beautiful Things • Selling Your Soul for a Picture Probably Isn’t Worth It • Being Philosophical and Being Intelligent are Not Always the Same Things • It’s Okay to be Gay As Long As You Get Rid of the Body

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why come they called him “beast” in the castle when everyone knew his name cuz they’d been working for him forever anyway? like …. i would just be like “hey chewbacca-Adam” or some shit, there’s no reason to call him beast … id hide in my room all day too if my employees started making fun of me..