#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

[wedarkacademia]

[futuristic-koala]

[deviika]

Lee Krasner // Franz Kafka

[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

[poetryforall]

-Rumi

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[joytri]

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice.’

[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]

[saranilssonbooks]

A bit of Moby-Dick oceanography context:

Up until the mid 1870s, it was generally accepted that life could not exist below a depth of 550 meters. This is why some of Ishmael's whale theories are so off and why Ahab pictures the sea floor as a vast wasteland of bones and shipwrecks. 🌊

[crystaletters]

I wish you a kinder sea.

Emily Dickinson

[shakespearesdaughters]

Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary, August 1921

[shisasan]

Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977

[that-butch-archivist]

"Lesbian Weddings" by Wendy Jill York

source: The Femme Mystique, edited by Lesléa Newman

[deviika]

Imam Al-Ghazali // Tennessee Williams