YAY BOOKS

Van Gogh and Monet~2015 and 2016 fad

Some coffee and books.

what did he mean by this

Two black people.

【19.1.16】books, tea and knitting kind of day.

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

~ Benjamin Franklin

I really deplore this toxic and regressive culture that promotes the idea of knowledge being invalid if isn’t wrapped in academic jargon. The amount of brilliance I’ve encountered and enrichment I’ve gained from immigrants and those systematically deprived access to elite academic institutions who understand politically precarious situations firsthand, albeit not speaking perfect English, far outweighs whatever an overpriced university textbook can ever teach me.

But these people and their valuable narratives are put on the backburner or neglected altogether, because people fetishize politics as long as its distant, elitist and devoid of emotion. A book can’t cry while it discusses genocide or dictatorships or apartheid, but a person does. But people don’t want that. They want the hipster chic appeal of a revolution and resistance, but not the humans. A professor gets lower ratings and is talked down poorly if they exhibit anything other than a stoic and neutral persona.

The way academia is constructed in the west has such an emotionally impoverished approach to politics and I honestly don’t understand how one can prefer it that.

Luna Lovegood

forest road

2603; easter weekend project

rereading a beautiful edition of a literary classic.

For as long as I can remember I’ve owned this tiny copy of Oliver Twist. I can’t remember where it came from or whether or not it was a gift. Somehow it just appeared in my life, and ever since I’ve been grateful to have it as a book friend. (photo taken by @bohemianbookworm from www.bookbeereviews.com)