Judy Poovey's Party Fight Story And Camilla's Country House Accident Were Windows To What Really Went

richard: …so, what i was saying- i was really upset about john lennon’s death

henry: oh, i’m sorry. was john lennon your uncle?

richard:

i am so sorry i am only reading the secret history for the first time because i feel like i am missing a lot of details that can only be noticed by re-reading the book. i'm on chapter three and so far every chapter talks about immortality and "living forever." i am wondering if this will last longer and how it will be mentioned in the chapter with bunny's murder. if it will be mentioned at all?

and the whole third chapter can probably be considered the character's first test of the idea of ​​immortality. and already here he faces reality - the proximity of death for any person, the fragility of life (and btw, it is significant that he does not fully realize that he can die, since life among his Greek circle makes him not think about it, they constantly repeat to him 'live forever' no one discusses death).

oh thanks for tagging me :3. i'm new to tumblr so i'm glad someone is already including me in this activity

these are my six favorite books:

The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan

Heaven official's blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Hobbit, or There and Back by J. R. R. Tolkien

Woe from Wit by Alexander Griboyedov

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

I often find it difficult to choose my favorite books because all my favorite writers are short fiction writers 😭. like Bunin, Paustovsky, Akutagawa, Andersen

btw next year i will take exams to enter university. and for the literature exam i will have to read a lot of russian works. (also i want to read more japanese literature). so i think next year i will have a different top of books :)

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Favourite Book Tag Game

Dear mutuals and followers, let's play a game. It is simple and straightforward: name your six favourite books (with or without explanation), then tag five more people and let them do the same.

Here are my six favourite books (not in any particular order, they all share a space on the podium):

1. Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky

2. Northanger Abby by Jane Austen

3. The neverending story by Michael Ende

4. Krabat by Otfried Preußler

5. Fire and Hemlock by Dianna Wynne Jones

6. The Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

I'm tagging @thelostinthebooks , @catcoffeeenjoyer , @stoertebeker , @plutorine @deimosatellite

Have fun 😊

Fellow "The gray house" enjoyer yay 👊😊

yeah! I even have fanarts for this book!

Red

Vulture

Corpse

And my fav one!!

" <...> Skull himself sat on a simple bench. Not in a hundred years would you suspect that he ruled this place, except everyone knew that he did.

When Grasshopper looked at him, Skull seemed to radiate an invisible halo. It was not apparent to the eye, but it separated him from the background, made him brighter. Like they do with light in old movies. And the fact that he was just sitting there, lost in the sea of mere mortals, only strengthened the effect."

no i dont think richard was "not smart enough" for the greek class. but lets not pretend his monetary status is what kept him from fitting in. Bunny was not rich, despite his illusion of wealth/big rich guy persona and his 'friends' knew this. Even the twins weren't well off, lol. Only Francis and Henry were wealthy.

The reason richard never became a core part of the group (unless absolutely necessary) was simply this: he was boring. he was a voyeur whose sole purpose was bearing witness to something greater than himself (nnnot really. all these guys were kind of pathetic and swept up in the tides of their delusions.)

that is part of the tragedy of richard and his entire story: he wanted, so badly, to be a part of this group, this other-worldly phenomenon that could never really accept him. he got swallowed whole and spit right back out by the very people he had built up to be these divine beings of perfection. He becomes doomed to forever feel the grief of a rejection so in-his-face and the only closure he gets is some fantasy he forces in a foggy dream.

He makes me crash out, respectfully,,

Honestly, this is the best scene that shows Henry's madness.

hot take maybe, but my opinion of you automatically dives if the first reaction you have to a cool character is to ask if there’s a c.ai bot of them. write shitty fanfic like the rest of us, or just maladaptive daydream if you must. find a community and rp online!! we’re losing important social and writing skills to a tech product controlled by and overseen by the slimiest, most exploitative billionaires silicon valley has seen in a generation and we’re doing it willingly???

no i dont think richard was "not smart enough" for the greek class. but lets not pretend his monetary status is what kept him from fitting in. Bunny was not rich, despite his illusion of wealth/big rich guy persona and his 'friends' knew this. Even the twins weren't well off, lol. Only Francis and Henry were wealthy.

The reason richard never became a core part of the group (unless absolutely necessary) was simply this: he was boring. he was a voyeur whose sole purpose was bearing witness to something greater than himself (nnnot really. all these guys were kind of pathetic and swept up in the tides of their delusions.)

that is part of the tragedy of richard and his entire story: he wanted, so badly, to be a part of this group, this other-worldly phenomenon that could never really accept him. he got swallowed whole and spit right back out by the very people he had built up to be these divine beings of perfection. He becomes doomed to forever feel the grief of a rejection so in-his-face and the only closure he gets is some fantasy he forces in a foggy dream.