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Graduate student specializing in 18th century British literature with an emphasis on the novel. Lover of John Milton, Jane Austen, and Charlotte Bronte. (Yes, I know none of them published in the 18th century.) Occasional writer of lengthy fictions, seven-time NaNoWriMo participant and former Office of Letters and Light intern. Reader of much young adult and/or fantasy lit. Lifetime lover of Diane Duane's Young Wizards series, recently fanatic about Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan trilogy, blaming it all on Harry Potter. Wanderluster. Left my heart in London, reclaim it bit by bit through tea and Doctor Who and Sherlock and Downton Abbey. |
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BettyBlonde1994“I’m a graduate student, my favorite author is anyone who can make their argument in less than fifty pages without mentioning hermeneutics or ‘socially constructing’ anything.”
Just one of the many reasons why I seriously love this.
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NotesAnd the heart is hard to translate,
It has a language of its own,
It talks in tongues and quiet sighs and prayers and proclamations,
In the grand deeds of great men and the smallest of gestures,
In short shallow gasps.But with all my education, I can’t seem to commend it,
And the words are all escaping me, and coming back all damaged,
And I would put them back in poetry if I only knew how,
I can’t seem to understand it,And I would give all this and heaven too,
I would give it all if only for a moment,
That I could just understand the meaning of the word you see,
‘Cause I’ve been scrawling it forever,
But it never makes sense to me at all.This is and will forever be my literary love song: the song that best expresses the way that I feel, not about that sort of love (at least not recently), but about my love of language, of literature, of the words that I work with on a daily basis, to which I have devoted my education; the words I love, and will never understand as well as I wish I could.
And all my stumbling phrases never amounted
To anything worth this feeling
Oh this heaven
Never could describe such a feeling as I feel, and
Words were never so useful
Til I was screaming out a language that I never knew existed before.(Source: Spotify)
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Notes"Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?"Cornelia Funke (via fancydressmasks)
(Source: literaturecreep, via damelola)
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Notes WHEN I HAVE TO WAKE UP FOR CLASS AT 9AM
Had my last 9am class of the semester this morning and my second-to-last class of the semester! Now it is all fun and paper-writing til the end of the semester (or til my copy of Clarissa accidentally falls from my bookshelf and gives me a severe concussion on its way down…).
Only tangentially related, you should follow this blog if you’re into that sort of thing because it is hilarious and I’m not just saying that because it’s run by someone I know.
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Notes"‘And do you ever contemplate the possibility of being married yourself, or engaged, before the season is over?’
‘Sometimes; but I don’t think it at all likely that I ever shall.’
‘Why so?’
‘Because, I imagine, there must be only a very, very few men in the world that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.’
"Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (via the-eyre-affair)
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(Source: maariamph, via luxheroica)
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Notes Gearing up to spend the next six hours hard at work on my MA essay.
The glasses are on, you guys. This is how you know I mean business.
Allons-y!
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Notes"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."John Green (via drizzleandahurricane)
This is eerily similar to the way I have previously described my emotions about Diane Duane’s Young Wizards series.
(via luxheroica)
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NotesSometimes I think it’s a good thing that my colleagues don’t know what goes on in my head when I am procrastinating
because I literally just thought to myself
“wow I don’t want to organize this presentation about 18th-century novel theory for tomorrow morning, wouldn’t it be great if I could just show up in class and rec contemporary YA novels instead, and then we could talk about fandom?”
