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from john ciardi’s translation of “the inferno” by dante alighieri

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Hamda al Fahim | Fall/Winter 2020 Couture

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language mastery, or: knowing which mistakes to make to sound natural

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i can’t believe there are people who live in such historically rich places like italy or scotland or greece or paris with old architecture and ruins and museums… the audacity. 

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“Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breasts and ovaries rather than penis and scrotum; to have my whole circle of action, thought and feeling rigidly circumscribed by my inescapable feminity. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars--to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording--all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...”

- Sylvia Plath

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sometimes I get so jealous of other people’s social skills. like damn. they can talk to people?? and people like them?? look at all those people who like them. wtf. illegal

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Paolo Sebastian | The Passage of Spring

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In Greece we don’t say ‘shut up’, we say ‘σκάσε’ (skase) which translates to explode, as in literally blow up your own body so that I won’t have to listen to you talking, and I think that’s beautiful. 

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the stereotype that women talk more than men is infinitely amusing to me because men are literally incapable of shutting the fuck up

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I want a sitcom which is just every single Shakespeare character as college students in a dorm building. 

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I love WORDS 😭 the best shit 🥰 inherited words 👏🏻 cognates 👀 loanwords 😍 culturally specific words 🙌🏻 old forms still in use 🤜🏻 all of it slaps and words are just so good 😭