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Aneurin Barnard as Boris Pavlikovsky in The Goldfinch (2019)

#tgf #the goldfinch #donna tartt

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macaulaytwins

#tsh #the secret history #donna tartt

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“Does such a thing as “the fatal flaw,” that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?” ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

#tsh #the secret history #donna tartt

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romanroyrabies

it’s the biggest holiday of the year for the dark academia community everyone remember to snort cocaine off a baroque painting in honor of miss tartt today

#sniff #donna tartt #tsh #the secret history #the goldfinch #tgf

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scenes from the secret history ive never seen discussed but which fuck way harder than “beauty is terror” or any of the other over-quoted passages:

henry talking to that farmboy at the diner when he and the gang are trying to avoid bunny
charles playing piano at francis’ aunt’s house while wine-drunk
when the coach says “lower connecticut” at the funeral and francis tells richard “he means black”
the initial description of camilla’s bedroom
cloke and the others getting high at the corcorans’ and richard trying to warn them that mrs. corcoran is coming because she seems like the kind of mother who would Know
bunny saying “all the world shoulda been taxed”
the essay being triple-spaced
“everybody here is a damn Catholic. arrivederci see you soon”
charles getting drunk on the kids’ playground and richard finding him in the snail and how it describes everything being so pink
mrs. corcoran discovering her pills have been stolen but then refusing police help because the items stolen were “small and of no sentimental value to anyone but herself”
marion nicknaming her daughter “bunny”
francis and richard discussing bunny’s autopsy in ancient greek in front of the girls
bunny stealing the lamb before it was done
when bunny’s nephews are running around at the corcorans’ on the day of the funeral and mrs. corcoran screams at them about how bunny is dead and they’ll never see him again and the one kid kicks the other one and he says “uncle bunny called me a bastard once”
the drama class richard misses on his first day with julian where the teacher would have them “imagine [their] bodies filling with a cool orange liquid”
camilla and charles describing that tv show they were watching to richard

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• when Henry smears the soil on himself instead of throwing it into Bunny’s grave at the funeral

#why does everyone seem to forget this last one?#it’s so insane #tsh #the secret history #donna tartt #dark academia

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sofb-art

𝐻𝑒𝓃𝓇𝓎 𝒲𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇 from The Secret History by Donna Tartt

𝔪𝔶 𝔦𝔤: 𝔰𝔬𝔣𝔟.𝔞𝔯𝔱

#tsh #the secret history #henry winter #donna tartt

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Reached the part in The secret History again where the conversation goes as follows:

"We're all a lot better off.”

"Some of us are, you mean.”

Henry smiled acidly. “Oh, I don't know,” he said. “Πελλαιου βους μεγας ειν Αιδη.”

This was something to the effect that, in the Underworld, a great ox costs only a penny, but I knew what he meant and in spite of myself I laughed. There was a tradition among the ancients that things were very cheap in Hell.

Once again I wondered at it and looked up several translations (one of them seems very logical in context, you can find it here: https://ahorsemanontheroof.tumblr.com/post/131000026984/pellaiou-bous-megas-ein-aidei). None of these translations satisfied what I wanted to know and yes probably a million people took this step before me, but I thought a moment about the context of the dialogue.

Henry: “We’re all a lot better off.” Implying: when Bunny is dead, he can’t harm them anymore and so it was worth to kill him.

Charles: “Some of us are, you mean.” I always thought this was a snippy comment, meaning that only Henry was better off with Bunny dead because he seems to be the only one who has no bad conscience.

But in fact, Charles probably meant Bunny’s dad, about whom he was just talking, since of course Bunny’s dad is not better off with his son dead.

Henry seems to understand that Charles is talking about Bunny himself (of course Bunny isn’t better off dead) and so the response is:

Henry smiled acidly. “Oh, I don't know,” he said. “Πελλαιου βους μεγας ειν Αιδη.”

And Richard’s explanation is: This was something to the effect that, in the Underworld, a great ox costs only a penny, but I knew what he meant and in spite of myself I laughed. There was a tradition among the ancients that things were very cheap in Hell.

And the reason Richard laughs is that Henry says as much as ‘Stuff in hell is cheaper’, with regard to Bunny who never had money and drained Henry, Francis and even the twins of theirs to get the stuff he wanted, which is now over because he is dead and Henry points out that, in Hell, Bunny doesn’t have to spent as much money in order to get what he wants. Which is a very morbid joke, as Richard understands it.

I finally get this part without any knowing of ancient languages!

#the secret history #tsh #donna tartt #francis abernathy #richard papen #henry winter #bunny corcoran #camilla macaulauy #charles macaulay #dark academia

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The hot take of my past-self on tsh:

‘and therefore learning dead languages or what’

#the secret history #tsh #donna tartt #henry Winter #richard papen #dark academia

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northern-caledonia

“But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’ Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

#tsh #the secret history #donna tartt #dark academia

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thepredatorywasp

books read on 2020; the goldfinch, donna tartt

#which was of course i love queue #the goldfinch #donna tartt #books read on 2020 #dark academia #aesthetic #moodboard

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macrolit

Dumbest bookish questionnaire of all time

Reblog with your answers (and tag @macrolit so we can see how nuts you are). 1. Name a book you’d date. 2. Name a book you’d bang. 3. Name a book you’d marry.

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Alright, here we go:

1. date: the secret history by Donna Tartt

2. bang: Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

3. marry: The little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#bookish #booklr #questionnaire #books #english majors #dark academia #tsh #the secret history #donna tartt #much ado about nothing #shakespeare #the little prince #antoine de saint exupéry

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sweetanyways

ok but like genuinely

what the fuck am i supposed to say. how am i supposed to react. when i read or hear the words “are you happy?” that shit is so unsettling. i don’t know how to respond

#are you happy?#rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead #tom stoppard #tsh #the secret history #henry winter #richard papen #donna tartt #dark academia #are you happy here?

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Let’s be a little active on this blog again. We filmed a little CMV this weekend, screwed up the lighting again but it was fun anyways! Enjoy :3 Charles Macaulay © Aya / K

#cmv #cosplay music video #charles macaulay #charles macaulay cosplay #cosplay #the secret history #the secret history cosplay #tsh cosplay #donna tartt #tsh

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The Goldfinch// Wind, Sand and Stars

We were so attuned to each other that we didn’t need to talk at all if we didn’t want to; we knew how to tip each other over in hysterics with an arch of an eyebrow or a quirk of the mouth [...] Strong tea in the mornings, stolen chocolate. Boris yanking my hair by the handful and kicking me in the ribs. Wake up, Potter. Rise and shine.