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whatever walked there, walked alone.

@hauntling / hauntling.tumblr.com

you are a walking metaphor for death and decay. everything you are and were is already crumbling into the earth.
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lifeisourcause
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mr-entj

A student once asked anthropologist Margaret Mead, “What is the earliest sign of civilization?” The student expected her to say a clay pot, a grinding stone, or maybe a weapon. Margaret Mead thought for a moment, then she said, “A healed femur.” A femur is the longest bone in the body, linking hip to knee. In societies without the benefits of modern medicine, it takes about six weeks of rest for a fractured femur to heal. A healed femur shows that someone cared for the injured person, did their hunting and gathering, stayed with them, and offered physical protection and human companionship until the injury could mend. Mead explained that where the law of the jungle—the survival of the fittest—rules, no healed femurs are found. The first sign of civilization is compassion, seen in a healed femur.

— Ira Byock, The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life (x)

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thymoss
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kobiety-pistoletyy
“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.”

— Sylvia Plath (via sylviaplathquotes)

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lets-throw-bacchanal

All the cute nicknames Victor Frankenstein called his son throughout the book:

  • catastrophe 
  • miserable monster
  • demoniacal corpse to which I have so miserably given life
  • an ugly mummy
  • a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived,
  • the filthy daemon to whom I have given life
  • no human
  • the wretch whom I had created
  • sight tremendous and abhorred
  • unearthly ugly being
  • too horrible for human eyes
  • miserable head
  • vile insect
  • abhorred monster
  • wretched devil
  • you, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world
  • too horrible for human eyes to behold
  • the filthy mass that moved and talked
  • wretch whom I dreaded
  • villain
  • monster of my creation
  • fiend
  • figure most hideous and abhorred

+ bonus - all the cute ways captain Robert Walton described Victor’s son on 1 page:

  • a form which I cannot find words to describe
  • never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness
  • tremendous being
  • scary and unearthly in his ugliness

Tag yourself I’m “the filthy mass that moved and talked” 

#i'm no human#lit
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