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When can I say your name and have it mean just your name and not what you left behind?

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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.

I hope you never have to think of anything as much as I think about you.

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“Our hands were empty except for our hands.”

—Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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She’s so real for that

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“If only one’s eyes weren’t visible to the world, she thinks. If only one could hide one’s eyes from the world.”

—Han Kang, The Vegetarian

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donna tartt’s reading list

In an interview, Tartt lists her favorite authors and the names of a few works. I have listed the most popular works from each author and the specific ones she recommended as well.

Homer

The Iliad

The Odyssey

Greek Poets and Tragedians

Argonautica

Antigone

Prometheus Bound

The Oresteia

Medea

Oedipus Rex

The Bacchae

The Frogs

Dante

Inferno

Purgatorio

Paradiso

Shakespeare

“I went back and read Macbeth and Hamlet during the pandemic”

Macbeth

Hamlet

Dickens

“Dickens was a part of my familial landscape, the air I breathed.”

A Tale of Two Cities

Great Expectations

Nabokov

Pale Fire

Lolita

Proust

In Search of Lost Time

Swann’s Way

Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

The Brothers Karamazov

Yeats

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

Borges

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

Ethan Frome

Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited

Helena

Salinger

Catcher in the Rye

Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

Orlando

Edward St. Aubyn

The Patrick Melrose Novels

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore

Norwegian Wood

Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Don DeLillo

White Noise

Underworld

W.G. Sebald

Austerlitz

The Rings of Saturn

Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

The White Album

Other Specific Books

Memoirs d’Outre-Tome by Chateaubriand

Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford

All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski

A Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq

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“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”

—Albert Camus, The Stranger

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“After a while, you could get used to anything”

—Albert Camus, The Stranger

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“It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that’s deeply religious”

—Jean Cocteau

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“The earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal”

—Camille Paglia

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Reblog if you're hoping 42 BC will be a fresh start.

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there’s another fucking week this week

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bro. bro you are romantisizing the secret history. bro you are enamored with the greek class just like richard. bro you are ignoring the bad things and creating aesthetics based on a book telling a murder of a young man. brother.

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"How do you read so many books??" I am simply trying to avoid reality, what are you doing

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so unfortunately college isn’t just about performing ancient greek rituals with your friends

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