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"He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that i had none"
Circe: Madeline Miller
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Circe : Madeline Miller
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the sexual tension between me and the songs from my teenage years
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Wuthering Heights: Emily Brontë
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Am I a person or am I just a bunch of Tamino lyrics glued together?
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on being the daughter of the family
if my body could speak, blythe baird // i put the coffin out to sea, lisa marie basile // @/belovedbi // ? // been a son, nirvana // elektra, sophokles; translated by anne carson // ? // churching, kristin chang
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"You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough."
-M.L.Rio, If We were Villains
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why cant i be a 20th century schoolboy studying shakespeare with his group of morally grey friends
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the feminine urge to wander the forest in a flowing white nightgown under the moonlight
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Sophocles' Electra (tr. Peter Meineck & Paul Woodruff)
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“𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠, 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜, 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑠 𝑜𝑓!”
—Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
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