#books literature

[crystaletters]

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly".

— Franz Kafka

[warblingandwriting]

Okay why do 2002 adaptations of classic 19th century literature love adding Hot Air Balloons so much? That gif if from The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) and the photo is from The Importance of Being Earnest (also 2002) and neither of them call for a hot air balloon!

Even I, a balloon lover, do not understand this, at that point in history (mid to late 1800s) they would have been a 100 year old fad (since they were invented in the eighteenth century) and The Count in particular seems more like the type who would be skeptical of something like the Hot Air balloon.

Obviously this balloon adding wasn't a huge trend, but for me, it's weird that it happened twice

[velartis]

Franz Kafka, 1912

[wedarkacademia]

Yeah now we've entered the back pain stage

[deviika]

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

[fatimazainab]

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

[futuristic-koala]

[deadlypoetacademia]

[joytri]

[lucidloving]

@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

[malang101]

Ye alag baat ke khamosh khade rehte hai.n

Fir bhi jo log bade hai.n wo bade rehte hai.n

Aise darvesho.n se milta hai hamara shijra

Jinke jutoon me kai Taj pade rehte hain

Rahat Indoori

[crystaletters]

I wish you a kinder sea.

Emily Dickinson

[diaryofaphilosopher]

"The shift from the Afro-Caribbean zombie to the U.S. zombie is clear: in Caribbean folklore, people are scared of becoming zombies, whereas in U.S. narratives people are scared of zombies. This shift is significant because it maps the movement from the zombie as victim (Caribbean) to the zombie as an aggressive and terrifying monster who consumes human flesh (U.S.). In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."

— Justin D. Edwards, "Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas" in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.

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[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{Words by Anaïs Nin, from The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4 (1944-1947) / Cynthia Cruz from diagnosis,The glimmering room}

[wedarkacademia]