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First Survey on Dark Academia

Working Title: Flawed and Imperfect, but Starred with Poetry: Exploring Beauty and Art in Dark Academia through The Secret History and Ninth House

Approximate time for answering: ~15 minutes

Eligibility: Please attempt the questionnaire if you are familiar with the lifestyle/literary genre of Dark Academia.

Dear respondent,

Welcome! My name is Prachi Goradia, and I am currently pursuing an M.A. in English (Hons) with Research at the University of Mumbai, India. Thank you so much for taking the time to attempt this questionnaire. It is a part of my final dissertation research which will be completed under the excellent guidance of Dr Sachin Labade. My research focuses on Dark Academia in literature and the idea of beauty and art that resides within the genre.

Please know that I really appreciate your time and patience in filling out the questionnaire, and am grateful to be able to share your thoughts.

Copyrights of all images used in the questionnaire rest with their owners.

Please note that the form will stop accepting responses on the 12th of May, 2022 at 10:00 PM Indian Standard time (GMT +5:30 hours)

If you have any questions or queries regarding the questionnaire, please drop me a line at prachi.goradia.edu@gmail.com, and I will get back to you at the earliest.

Link: https://forms.gle/VvhRncVypWu2M8Sb7

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By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

Shakespeare, Macbeth.

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A hand that wraps around your waist, blindly taps each surface,

Birthday candles on a multi-tier cake, slice a piece for each friend you make,

Foggy windows on a rainy day, louder, soothing tunes from a vintage tape-recorder

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When Hozier said “All you have is your fire and the place you need to reach. Don't ever tame your demons, but always keep 'em on a leash” and when Nietzsche said “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”

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How can something be there, and then not be there? How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?

Doc Luben, 14 Lines from Love Letters or Suicide Notes  

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Will you reach for me beyond the stars?

I catch you.

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“My sorrow—I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone— And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone”

Edgar Allen Poe, Alone

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When the body perishes, all perishes; but the threads of memory are woven with enduring specks. I will pick these particles,  weave the threads, and I will meet you yet again.

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Kithe? Kis tarha? Pata nahi

How and where? I know not.

Shayad tere takhiyl di chinag banke

Perhaps I will become a figment of your imagination and maybe

Tere canvas te utrangi

spreading myself in a mysterious line on your canvas

Ya khore teri canvas dey utte

I will keep gazing at you.

Amrita Pritam, Mein tenu phir milangi

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And all that I loved, I loved alone.

Edgar Allen Poe

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//I am. I am. I am// When was the last time that you were you?

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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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But hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.

Sylvia Plath

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I wish you a kinder sea. Emily Dickinson

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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar