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found Villette at a local bookstore and almost had a heart attack ! it was only $12 too
it's nice to see not all bookstores have been so heavily affected by mainstream books, I'm definitely going back there
Someone today will read Shakespeare’s hamlet and say omg he’s just like me fr. Another person will read moby dick and proclaim Ishmael as an adhd king.
A person grieving for their recently deceased lover reads the iliad and they watch as Achilles rages and rages and god how righteous anger fueld by love is so devastating that it’s ramifications still affect the world several thousand years later.
We might one day settle down and read the epic of gilgamesh and watch as a king has to accept the death of the person he loved the most. One of the very first stories ever written and it was about coping with death, and how to grieve.
We don’t read classics because they’re old, we read them because they remind us that we are never alone. That a character created over 500 years ago struggled with the exact same problems we all still have today. That even a king from centuries past had to deal with death just like me. That’s what makes stories so powerful–they prove to us that we are never truly alone in what we are feeling.
Starting a new thing (if it isn’t already)
Distracted academia aesthetic
Get good grades but can’t read a chapter of a book without mindlessly scrolling through dark academic lit posts or pictures of other books in between pages
Likes the IDEA of studying, cannot for the life of them make it through a chapter of that textbook without thinking about moving to England after getting into Cambridge or Oxford
Makes it through the classics in the pursuit of knowledge but took multiple years because of the allure of the ya fiction fantasy section at Barnes and noble
Writes handwritten letters for loved ones with little pressed flowers in them, but has the absolute messiest handwriting
Style fluctuates from dark academia style to only sweats for a week to whatever was on the floor when they woke up that day
Has read the classics a couple times and follows the text post fandom accounts, but couldn’t hold an in-person conversation about them because reasons
Loves to read but literally hasn’t picked up or finished a book in ages just because of the sheer number of things they are currently procrastinating at the moment
Either has 30 million things in there mind or has about -2, there is no in between
Is trying their best and deserves a hug :)
Distracted academia
:)
Starting a new thing (if it isn’t already)
Distracted academia aesthetic
Get good grades but can’t read a chapter of a book without mindlessly scrolling through dark academic lit posts or pictures of other books in between pages
Likes the IDEA of studying, cannot for the life of them make it through a chapter of that textbook without thinking about moving to England after getting into Cambridge or Oxford
Makes it through the classics in the pursuit of knowledge but took multiple years because of the allure of the ya fiction fantasy section at Barnes and noble
Writes handwritten letters for loved ones with little pressed flowers in them, but has the absolute messiest handwriting
Style fluctuates from dark academia style to only sweats for a week to whatever was on the floor when they woke up that day
Has read the classics a couple times and follows the text post fandom accounts, but couldn’t hold an in-person conversation about them because reasons
Loves to read but literally hasn’t picked up or finished a book in ages just because of the sheer number of things they are currently procrastinating at the moment
Either has 30 million things in there mind or has about -2, there is no in between
Is trying their best and deserves a hug :)
Distracted academia
“Hell is eternal apartness”
- Harper Lee, Go Set A Watchman
Starting a new thing (if it isn’t already)
Distracted academia aesthetic
Get good grades but can’t read a chapter of a book without mindlessly scrolling through dark academic lit posts or pictures of other books in between pages
Likes the IDEA of studying, cannot for the life of them make it through a chapter of that textbook without thinking about moving to England after getting into Cambridge or Oxford
Makes it through the classics in the pursuit of knowledge but took multiple years because of the allure of the ya fiction fantasy section at Barnes and noble
Writes handwritten letters for loved ones with little pressed flowers in them, but has the absolute messiest handwriting
Style fluctuates from dark academia style to only sweats for a week to whatever was on the floor when they woke up that day
Has read the classics a couple times and follows the text post fandom accounts, but couldn’t hold an in-person conversation about them because reasons
Loves to read but literally hasn’t picked up or finished a book in ages just because of the sheer number of things they are currently procrastinating at the moment
Either has 30 million things in there mind or has about -2, there is no in between
Is trying their best and deserves a hug :)
Distracted academia
Oh to be a heroine in a Jane Austen novel
Hell yeah
The fun thing is, I’ve just begun to read Austen’s work and I love it.
Does it give me a headache trying to comprehend the grammar of her time?
Yes.
But it is so worth it.
