if we were secret history villains

Richard Papen:

well, actually he happily went along with it. like rip to richard but I would simply not have put up with all that.

just thinking about the reason Donna Tartt's writing is so sickening in that scene where Camilla comes to Richard all bruised and he thinks about... yeah, that scene. You know the one.

When Camilla goes to Henry, his first thought is "The girl I like is being hurt, I have to protect her." In contrast, Richard's thought process is "The girl I like is being hurt, I guess that's on the table." He sees Charles's abuse as an okay signal, and views Camilla less as a human because of it.

Its the whiplash that gets you. When the supposed innocent bystander starts talking like that, this visceral, gut-wrenching disgust takes over as you realize that is the thought process of the man whose head you are occupying.

But honestly it was not sudden. It was always there. How come he 'liked' Bunny to begin with when he was a homophobic racist

that scene was what finally convinced me to become a richard hater. how dare he claim to be in love with her the audacity of that man knows no bounds