life is only a borrowing of bones

it's kind of crazy how many physical books universities have. like i'm pretty sure a lot of them go just untouched for years at a time. but they're just waiting there for the right obscuritan to come along. like cinderella

using emdashes and a semi colon in the same line. this sentence will end when i do

unfortunately if Arthur Conan Doyle was alive today he would spread misinformation in a weekly podcast

Endlessly fascinating phenomenon of students waiting outside a lecture hall that's empty, so there's no class leaving as a cue to go in. Everyone wants to go in but nobody wants to do it first, even though they must know from experience if someone does go in the rest will follow. Today we were outside a lecture hall that was empty and unfamiliar because our lecture was moved, and I watched someone actually peek in and then come out again, causing a ripple effect of students moving to go in and then stopping when our self appointed leader became unsure of themselves.

[EXIT PURSUED BY LITERALLY SO MANY BEARS, YOU HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA]

Hi stephanie,

I hope this email finds you, as the search and rescue team is otherwise completely out of ideas

eleanor vance was thirty two years old when she came to hill house. your life is not over in your twenties!

Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

You wrote about murder?? Murder is illegal?? You wrote about this dude killing someone and you didn’t even say ‘murder is bad’ at the start of the book, wht wtf, wtf is wrong with you? I can’t believe you condone murder, I can’t believe you’re pro murber, oh my fucking God don'ttalk to me when ou literally kill people, freak. I’m calling the cops, what the fuck, I’m shaking and crying.

reblog if you’re obsessed with imagery and symbolism and also are a homo