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help me get my insulin I’m a type 1 diabetic and need this medication to live. Anything would help.

I'm praying I get a little help i managed to get some money but I'm still short on paying for my INSULIN I have no job currently and the insulin vials $420 are crucial please help me. I appreciate anything, thanks in advance,

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This would be a blessing to help me get my insulin I’m a type 1 diabetic and need this medication to live.

I'm praying I get a little help i managed to get some money but I'm still short on paying for my INSULIN I have no job currently and the insulin vials $420 are crucial please help me. I appreciate anything please donate

I'm truly sorry I'm in no position to help right now, but I hope there are other people out there who will. Wishing you the best of luck and health in this shitty world. I trust that you'll make it out of this situation! Sending love.

I'm urging anyone who can help to do so, and to spread your message so more people will.

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Favourite author from the losers of the polls I've done a while ago

I'll make a ranking after a week or so.

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Genuine question, does anyone remember what sort of fish it was that Vardaman caught in 'As I Lay Dying'?

And if it's not specified (as I suspect it isn't), what are your best guesses?

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November 1

i love the confidence Jonathan and Arthur have by hoisting that Romanian flag and pretending to be local authorities when none of them speaks Romanian at all (and I think not Hungarian either, but I might be wrong), and when both of them have the most British manners ever seen by man

like... cool down, boys, you can't even spell mămăligă right

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Byron mocking Coleridge and Wordsworth in his introduction to Don Juan:

" ‘A dainty dish to set before the King’ Or Regent, who admires such kind of food.   And Coleridge too has lately taken wing, But like a hawk encumbered with his hood, Explaining metaphysics to the nation.   I wish he would explain his explanation."

"And Wordsworth in a rather long Excursion (I think the quarto holds five hundred pages) Has given a sample from the vasty version Of his new system to perplex the sages. ’Tis poetry, at least by his assertion, And may appear so when the Dog Star rages, And he who understands it would be able To add a story to the tower of Babel."

I actually prefer Coleridge to Byron (if you couldn't tell from my profile pic) but this is too good to not be shared with the nerds on the internet.

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Best character in "Mrs Dalloway"

"Sally Seton, generous, enthusiastic goose!"

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10th round: Radclyffe Hall VS Washington Irving

Fun facts: Irving served as Ambassador to Spain in the 1840s, and Hall's "The Well of Loneliness" is one of the most beautiful books I've ever read.

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Allen Ginsberg appreciation post

The 7th and 8th photos are Ginsberg and Orlovsky; the last is Ginsberg and Kerouac.

Y'all do yourselves a favour and go read Howl and Kaddish if you haven't already!

And "Sunflower Sutra" is one of my personal favourites.

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6th round: George Orwell VS Ray Douglas Bradbury

My favourite Bradbury is The Martian Chronicles.

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3rd round: Daphne du Maurier VS Shirley Jackson

I'm so bad at choosing between favourites...

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2nd round: William Blake VS William Cuthbert Faulkner

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1st round: Alfred, Lord Tennyson VS Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

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Thinking about Dracula a lot lately (rereading the audiobook while working on Halloween costume)

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This is so pretty.

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Sappho of Lesbos (6th century BCE)

one of the most succesful lyric poets (poems written to be sung while accompanied by music) of Ancient Greece

known as "the Tenth Muse", her figure was so popular that 6 different commedies named "Sappho" are known

she is thought to have composed about 10,000 lines, most of her poems being about love (especially towards women), but also touching on other themes like family and religion

however, not much of her poetry survived to this day, and many of the poems that we have are missing words or lines - "I declare That later on Even in an age unlike our own, Someone will remember who we are."

"May gales and anguish sweep elsewhere The killer of my character. But I am hardly some backbiter bent On vengenace; no, my heart is lenient." (Sappho)

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Bram Stoker (1847-1912)

Irish writer and theatre critic

magnum opus: "Dracula"

wrote mainly within the horror genre: "Dracula", "The Lady of the Shroud", "The Lair of the White Worm"

as a huge lover of theatre, he worked as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the West End's Lyceum Theatre

he had a relationship of questionable nature with fellow Irish writer Oscar Wilde, the two of them being friends (and speculated lovers); Stoker married Florence Balcombe, who was previously romatically involved with Wilde, but their friendship was not affected by this

"Dracula" has been translated in about 30 languages and adapted as films, plays, TV series, musicals, opera, ballet and music; the character Dracula appears in more than 200 films

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“Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”

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