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a sweetheart, an amorous girl; a paramour
24 march 2023- spent most of the day in my carrel internally screaming about dramatic monologues
30 April 2023- I'm in New York for a forum! Couldn't get in a lot of work as I was mostly running around. I expect the next few days to be exceptionally busy :)
I'm currently reading 1984 and considering trying to read more classics. I haven't read any classics since high school and did not enjoy any of the ones we were required to read. But people enjoy them and they're classics for a reason, right? I mainly read fantasy and/or romance, but I'd like to get over my avoidance of classic literature, and I'm sure literally no one will see this but by chance if any opinionated classics-lovers scroll by this then please please please what would you recommend I read next? (Under cut are the books I read in school.)
Middle school (what I can remember anyways):
Beowulf
The Pearl
The Giver
The Illustrated Man
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
High school:
Romeo and Juliet
Of Mice and Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Odyssey (...part of it)
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
Julius Caesar
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Great Gatsby
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Hamlet
Brave New World
I did read The Hobbit this year, which I loved on account of being a fantasy lover, and I'm excited to read Lord of the Rings at some point.
This, too, is an essay on the Wife of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer. & this one contains the answer to the question: Why is the Wife of Bath considered a feminist text?
Awh, that sucks. I could've used that essay a year ago during my uni's second semester exams 😂😂😂
Life was honestly better when we were studying British Poetry and Drama (17th-18th Century) in uni.
I sincerely hope all of us will be free someday. Free from pain, suffering, desolation. Free from the prison of our own mind and body. Free from the burden of existence.🤞🤞
Louisa May Alcott, from Little Women
Gloomy Sunday morning; perfect for reading in bed. Currently on the go I have: Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem, Nina Mingya Powles’ Magnolia, 木蘭 and Daniel Stevens’ Bread, which is literally a book about making bread 🧑🌾🥖
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.
Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths
We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.
H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
You know what they say; adapt or be eaten by Morlocks.
Literature Prompt #1, Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation
“We all live in a kind of continuous dream,” I told him. “When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we’ve taken as reality.”― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation
Write about an event which disturbs your protagonist’s idea of reality. What happens? Do they change or hold on to the illusion? Or do they go mad?
But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.
Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
Just like fanfiction writers cannot be satisfied without comments or kudos, as much as we’d like to pretend otherwise.
(This is an excellent book if you’ve never read it, by the way.)
Literature Prompt #2, A Canticle for Leibowitz
“The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.” ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
What’s a piece of advice that your character gives others but has a hard time following?
Literature Prompt #3, The Little Prince
“If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Write about two characters who must spend time apart and see each other in little things.
I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth--a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow.
Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
Well, that would certainly be an interesting review to get as a writer...I doubt any of us wish to be literally cursed by our readers, but it would be flattering to know we’ve affected someone that deeply.
Causing insanity in readers, that’s another story.
The Goodreads Algorithm is Weird Sometimes...
How did you know Ted Bundy was my favorite Pokémon?
The clown turned his powdered face to the mirror. "If to be fair is to be beautiful," he said, "who can compare with me in my white mask?" "Who can compare with him in his white mask?" I asked of Death beside me. "Who can compare with me?" said Death, "for I am paler still." "You are very beautiful," sighed the clown, turning his powdered face from the mirror.
Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
I can’t help imagining this as a conversation between the Possessive Mask (SCP-035), the Plague Doctor (SCP-049) and the Shy Guy (SCP-096). You can decide who is who, though I think we all know who the clown is. SCP-096 would probably be the palest, but his self-esteem is so low he likely wouldn’t make that connection.
Literature Prompt #4, The Most Dangerous Game
“The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees.” ― Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game
Write about a character who is being pursued by something, whether its another person, a creature, an organization, or an otherworldly force. How do they manage to survive? Do they find a way to turn the tables?
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