#charles macaulay

[paulfleischers]

my the secret history collection, march 2024.

[losergirlsoap]

is somebody gonna match my freak?? (morbidly longing for the picturesque)

[funplexflip]

Bunny Corcoran was sentenced to death for the unspeakable crime of being a little bit of an asshole sometimes

[sleepytuberose]

The Secret History

How I see The Secret History characters

Richard Papen

Henry Winter

Camilla Macaulay

Charles Macaulay

Francis Abernathy

Bunny Corcoran

All images are from pinterest and do not belong to me.

[meloncholypire]

[lanabanana79]

[winterbear-a]

Charles Macaulay

'Not sure if I need a glass of wine or a gun or both.'

—Charles Macaulay, The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992).

[betryl]

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

[pagesofjasmine]

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

| The Secret History

[droptheguillotineplease]

Doodles of the characters from Donna Tartt's The Secret History

[qiornono]

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

[nostalgicacademia]

“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

[funplexflip]

So Camilla's personality and overall character are very unclear since Richard high-key doesn't see her as a person, but I'm firmly in the camp of her being equally as nuts as the rest of the Greek class, if not more. Richard just can't imagine her being anything other than a darling cherub (and probably can't fathom the idea of a woman being capable of extreme violence, let's be real)

[averagepretentiousreader]

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.

[vermillionbedfellow]

i love every character in the secret history. they're all freaks. they're all alcoholics. they're snobs. they deserve nothing but the worst. i adore them. i want to study them as if i were a mad ornithologist and they were rare, cantankerous, bastard birds.

[franzkafkalover]

A morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.