echoesofadream

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ohhh im so ssleepy...after four hour work day and only a little less than 8hour sleep. and yeti need to sleep. so bad. i dont understand how anyone is supposed to do this cause i cant even do way beneath bare minimum lol. and im supposed to work out HAH good luck with that. only reason i can work out regularly is because i basically dont fucking work. its like well its not looking so hopeful for me in the future!

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(by argiazkiak)

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pick roses at night, just before the rain.

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thinking if i can reach jungkook via telepathy if hes on my continent

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but they couldnt actually be this much together so obviously if they were actually dating i mean how thin could the glass closet be

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also its kind of crazy actually because they were together right beofre military in ays, then during the entire eighteen months of enlistment, and right after they go traveling together? are they dating?

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hyperventilating because he laughed in the background of a video

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i cant listen to bts cause i love and miss and need jungkook too much

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Small critters. An embroidery pattern book. 1917.

Smithsonian Libraries via the Internet Archive

Book uploaded by ChristinaB

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jungkook going awol post military yassss come live in the woods with me

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why am i stupid and go to bed too late like really time just slips away idk. I just need to put my foot down and say sleep time now. No arguments. I like see the time is 23 and im like ah theres lots of time and im in bed so early its fine and peace invokes but then its 1 or 2 and it doesnt matter when i went to bed because i am going to sleep much too late either way. And its so nice to wake up in the morning and feel you actually went to bed before midnight like it feels like a gift you gave to yourself to be allowed to sleep.

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idk why i’m posting about the goldfinch bc it’s 2022 and also i need to go to bed, but like. and i see why crowley didn’t do this, because he was trying to do Prestige Award Winner and not anything interesting or genuine. but the thing is, why not lean into the unreality and unreliability of theo’s narration, and the drugs, and the difference between vegas and nyc. and not in the unbelievably facile ‘one is a desert and the other is…can you believe it…a city’ way. not to mention amsterdam! what a bizarrely bloodless film. what a silly use of 50 million dollars.

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woah…

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i didn't read the tags first. the topic is the goldfinch (the book).

It is poorly written.

An astute reader can surmise it is written with intent of being told by a heavily unreliable narrator (Theo) whose recollections are shoddy and biased based on internalized homophobia, agonizing PTSD, deep paranoia, dark depression, grief, self-hate, rampant drug use while writing (sometimes uppers, sometimes downers - you can tell based on how he writes certain sections what he was in) and that fact that Theo is a consummate liar borne as the result of all those things. It makes the book long-winded, often irrational, often childish and archetypal, often untelling and guarded, and even often unenjoyable to read without concentrated perusal. Which of course is the intent.

It is like if the fucked up child of a real fairy-tale trauma wrote a book-- Theo is even called Potter in the narrative to illustrate this -- deglamorizing the coming-of-age story in a tragic real-life lens. A fact which no doubt contributed to its Pulitzer win despite the almost exhaustively combed time-and-again subject matter.

But nonetheless it makes for a painful read - with timelines not making sense, characters appearing incredibly one-dimensional, facts forgotten, other things youd like to know glossed over, and only one truly saving grace of the book - Boris, who Theo loved ardently and writes with passion and a truthfulness the rest of the narrative is entirely denied (which is why he is often such a dear character to the reader). Boris and Audrey are the manuscript's (and Theo's) saving graces.

The ending of the book is just as lackadaisical, giving no distinct ending but more a personal-journal type reflectiveness indicating again the lack of "closure" of the narrarive bc the book/manuscript isnt being written by an "author" it is being written by Theo - the damaged child, who has no need or intent to end the story in writing once he grows beyond the need to write it.

I also often wonder - this personal journal manuscript of Theo... how did it get published in our suspended disbelief of it being a book? Who found it, who is supposed to be reading it - did Theo publish it, and if not, where is he and who did?

Lots of questions, a good book, but Theo sucks at writing so it's a bit of very obviously meta Tartt academic inside-joke of literary deconstruction sometimes.

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the Moon in “The Goldfinch”, part 1

It seems the moon plays a great part in “The Goldfinch”. Boris’s Arabic name is Badr al-Dine which means “The full moon of Faith”; according to Theo’s father Theo’s zodiac sign is Cancer, and the ruling planet of Cancer is the moon; Theo’s mother tells him her childhood story about being homesick and cured by the presence of the moon... Pure coincidence? Let’s run through the book and do some research.

The very first time we meet the moon on the pages is right after the explosion when Theo explains to the reader what he sees.

An image of a damaged, ruined world with a boy inside looking at the moonscape of rubble, trying to orient himself and figure the best way to go.

Then Mr.Barbour, Andy’s father obsessed with the sea and yachting, mentions the moon. Why here? Cause if Barbours had had Theo with them that summer everything would have changed for him, he would have been the part of their family, they would have been his new home. However, as we are aware that never happened. The mist in the description...

The next time the moon appears again it’s an object, a moon dial clock at Hobie’s. Theo’s attached to many things in his house: smell of beeswax and wood, furniture, dense, almost touchable foggy, autumnal, a mild and welcoming micro-climate. It’s the very sense of home for Theo. No surprise something moon shaped emerges just after the formal greetings between Hobie and Theo.

With Larry even this vague sense of home is gone again. Theo feels uncomfortable around him and wishes he was anywhere else (Tibet, Lake Tahoe, the moon). Besides, the last time Theo and his mother went out for a meal happened to be in a place called Moondance Diner.

In Vegas Theo’s room is bare and lonely, no one cares that he never changes his clothes or isn’t in therapy. He pokes around the house and finds random stuff like real estates leaflets, new wine glasses still in the box and other things including a cardboard box of beat-up trade paperbacks such as Your Moon Signs. But all these things aren’t on their places, that’s why it still doesn’t feel like home at all. But the chapter isn’t named Badr al-Dine for nothing.

So basically Boris is an embodiment of the moon, faith and home. Boris answers Theo’s question whether the moon is the same everywhere with a bold confidence “of course it is, you idiot”. There’s a very significant part of Theo’s doubtfulness about that. He doesn’t want to accept all this as his home though he has no alternative cause even in his dream there’s no solitude and his mother’s image is faulty.

The next time we see a crescent moon which enlightens the thrilling scene in the swimming pool.

What’s this all about? Boris sings a polish song about two smalls kittens, and the boys are them indeed. Lost, scared, laughing and grieving, alone and together at the same time, covered in blood (Boris’s mostly). It seems unreal but the next day breaks into this inexistence bringing the bright sun. And nothing happens, the spell isn’t broken: they’re here together and alive.

Badr al-Dine chapter ends with Christmas celebration (Boris’s praznyky, праздники :) and Larry saying these very words:

The whole thing is so magical that after Boris’s toast Theo accepts happiness doesn’t seem quite such a doomed or fatal idea.

Wind, Sand and Stars starts with Boris’s girlfriend Kotku and a half a year time gap in Theo’s storytelling canvas. The main things have to be mentioned: 1. firstly, Theo’s not on good terms with Kotku’s assumptions of ownership of Boris 2. Secondly, he becomes closer to his father. However, this situation proves to be a double betrayal when Larry freaks out and beats Theo trying to make him get the money immediately. Just after that Boris comes and tells Theo he’s forced to leave the country because of his father’s job. Everything seemes frozen, like the planet has stopped. However, the moon is still there. In spite of being a disturbingly unreliable narrator Theo reveals he’s overwhelmed with feelings he’s troubled to explain.

After departing ways we won’t see the proper moon for a significant amount of time. And when we finally meet it again (with an appearance of Boris, of course) it’ll be a completely different moon according to Theo.

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i hope he dies in a ditch