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As prisoned birds must find in freedom
Name: Alexey
Age: 22
Studying: literature
Interests: hammer horror, Shakespeare, the war poets, Victorian literature, gothic horror, boys 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 etc etc
Dni and Dnf if you are pro Israel. I might be Jewish but I’m not a schmuck. Land back!
Please read my favourite books
Cream coloured courser and her chicks. Seyed Babak Musavi.
lmao god, english upper class people... I was reading Mathilda, and there's all these monologues about the protagonist going insane from loneliness and not knowing how to act when she finally strikes up a friendship again; she has retired to a cottage in the woods and is essentially in hiding. All this time we're given the impression that she is utterly alone in that cottage. Much woe about the completeness of her loneliness. and then.
what do you mean your servant ...? in your cottage in the woods where you were so utterly alone? that one?
pt 2, this time Frankenstein by the same. Said Frankenstein is greatly relieved when he returns and the 'apartment was empty' because this means his monster has fled. but then
...did that servant materialise out of thin air to bring him food in his room. The place not actually empty, just empty of people of his own class. he just left the servant and his monster with each other while he was out.
Eventually the monster was like "well this is awkward. I'm out." and the servant presumably just filed the encounter under "weird shit upper class people do" and went on with his life.
I remember taking this college elective on film adaptations and we talked about the controversy caused by the PBS adaptation of Emma, which made a point of putting servants in every. single. scene, confronting the audience with the reality that the main characters are surrounded by servants constantly and are choosing not to acknowledge their presence. Emma is consoling her "poor" friend Harriet over her misfortune and the entire time a servant is standing there silently brushing Emma's hair or some shit. Virtually every other adaptation of Emma does a very good job of invisiblizing the constant presence of the working class labor force that allowed these people to live the way they did.
If anyone is interested the murder mystery Gosford Park specifically explored this phenomenon. Roger Ebert did a review of it here.
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It's crazy that Monty Python's Spamalot has a whole song about this
Nike advertisement for XY Magazine, 1990’s
Queer (2024)
You can just dump some cans of vegetables and beans and some broth and herbs and chopped onion in a pot and bring it to boiling and then lower the heat to a simmer for about 20-30 minutes and eat with a side of buttered toast you know. Nobody’s stopping you.
“A poem…begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”
— Robert Frost in his letter to Louis Untermeyer, dated 1 January 1916
I’ve said it before I’ll say it again sign language needs to become part of the mandatory school curriculum
Some things you can only ask your mentally ill friends about later in life.😅
