LITERATURE MEME | 10 works of prose - (2) the secret history by donna tartt
Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.
the secret history wip i’ll probably adjust some stuff
Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.
new T Swift aesthetic ACTUALLY feels like she read one (1) Donna Tartt novel. it WILL be the exclusive soundtrack of the future Secret History series/movie or i’ll eat my hat
The Little Friend, Donna Tartt (2002)
The Secret History, 1992.
Physically I’m here, but mentally I’m in a small classroom at a liberal arts college in Vermont maybe in the ‘80s studying Classics and toasting to living forever
“Are you happy here?“ I said at last. He considered this for a moment. “Not particularly,” he said. “But you’re not very happy where you are, either.”
can you imagine being THIS cool
Context.
WHY IS THE CONTEX EVEN BETTER?!
“are you happy here?“ i said at last. he considered this for a moment. “not particularly,” he said. “but you’re not very happy where you are, either.”
sometimes a family is a woman with no personality because of the male gaze, an angry twink, a man who didn’t know the moon landing happened, a repressed man from california, a gay anxious hypochondriac, and a clown and that’s okay
you, a pleb: #aesthetic
john richard papen, an intellectual: a morbid longing for the picturesque
hey guys the Donna Tartt cinematic universe has begun
mcu walked so dtcu could run
“For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive”
-Donna Tartt ‘The Secret History’
why are you so damn pretentious
its because i read the secret history one time, happens to the best of us
booty shorts that say REDISTRIBUTION OF MATTER on the ass
