#literature tag

[burningchapel]

heard you guys like dracula. which iteration of dracula are you quiz. warning not all results are made equally ♡

[roseofnohr]

the fact that john steinbeck mistranslated "timshel" is something that can actually be so personal.

in east of eden, the word timshel is used again and again to represent free choice. steinbeck writes that timshel is hebrew for "thou mayest." it's not, though. timshel isn't even an actual word in hebrew. but stick with me, because i think that makes it even more meaningful.

timshel and its (incorrect) meaning are presented in east of eden by an atheist, or at least decidedly non-christian, character. that character explains how cain was told after murdering his brother that he may triumph over sin - not that he would triumph over sin or that he must triumph over sin, simply that he had the choice to triumph over sin. another character asks that first character if he has suddenly become christian. the first character responds by explaining that while he doesn't believe the bible is divine law, he still recognizes a universal truth when he sees it.

and isn't that what steinbeck fans have done with timshel? it's not even a real word, but the fact that so many people have still resonated with steinbeck's message and found some truth in it, despite its inherent imperfection, fits with the original context so nicely - that something doesn't have to be perfectly accurate to still have an element of truth to it.

[transsexualjoanofarc]

i dont like kenneth branagh’s whole thing & i dont like the apparent mcu-ification of hercule poirot but i will not lie & say i dont love agatha christie style whodunnit murder mysteries making a bit of a comeback now

[tuttocenere]

srsly this book is so good just look at it

the writing is just like the cover

[a-passing-storm]

You ever feel so validated by random essays online?

[alcanceress]

i think an important part of the life of each of us is a rather homoerotic trope about love is perceived as hatred. it's about obsession, about how war between people becomes the MEANING OF EXISTENCE. you think that seeing your enemy dead will make you feel relieved. joyful. but all you feel is desolation. literally nothing.

burning trope. i think Danko (“Legend of Danko” M. Gorky) when he tore out his heart to show people the light, he just created IT and people followed him

[doomsdayradio]

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[starlit-pathways]

She was exhausted but still laughed at the sight of him, as unexpected as the sudden coming of spring. One day there was frost, and the next, bloom.

—The Vanishing Half, by Britt Bennett

[stsapphos]

real gems hidden in the prestuplenie i nakazanie tag on ao3

[brbremaking]

Reading wuthering heights and every time I see something that makes me go oh olliecore I think about that web weaving bad paragraph and think how horrified op would be

I’m sorry Emily bronte was a halollie truther

[ily-beyond-measure-carstairs]

"Do you think there is anything not attached by its unbreakable cord to everything else? " - Mary Oliver, Upstream

[roseofnohr]

ok hear me out. i was rereading the homeric hymn to demeter earlier tonight as one does, and something stood out to me:

at the beginning, before she's kidnapped, it's mentioned that persephone is picking roses, crocuses, violets, irises, hyacinths, and narcissuses.

then she's kidnapped and forced into a role as a wife that she never asked for. when she finally returns home, she recounts the story to her mother like this:

all of the same flowers are mentioned again, except for violets, which have been replaced by lilies - which you could feasibly connect to the creation story of lilies, which centers around hera being forced to nurse hercules and its associations with coercion into a role of woman/mother, but i digress. point is, i saw that the violets were gone, and my mind went here:

is this intentional? i have no idea. i just think it's fascinating. excuse me while i go cry over girls from literature who lose their innocence and their violets far too soon.

[abearbutch]

just finished reading ‘aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe’ for uni and ohhhh my god

[hauntswitch]

Going outside in the fine May weather that bridges that perfect balance of past spring to those much anticipated sun-kissed summers ahead, thinking of my dear friend Jonathan Harker, who is currently away in the southeast of Europe for a fine business venture would you believe! Apparently he is to be staying with a well-to-do man called The Count. I wonder if they're both seeing much of this glorious sun all those miles away- I do hope to hear from him soon!

[tuttocenere]

Clear sign from the heavens for once.

[mirillel]

Winnie felt better in the sunlight. She let her hand rest on the tree's ropy trunk. The bark was smooth beneath her fingers. These were the breed of strangling ficus that spent two hundred years braiding their bodies around a host tree, killing it while gradually assuming its form. Parasite, doppeldänger, sarcophagus. Winnie admired it.

Violet Kupersmith, Build Your House Around My Body