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i am a little stunned by how much more i appreciated this book the second time around. it was engaging and complex and beautiful and also vaguely horrifying. i really recommend everyone give this a chance. also i want the semester to be over so i can
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"rereading this so that i can teach it in a couple weeks 🎉🥳👏" — 4 hours, 57 min ago
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Reading for the 3rd time
read in October 2020
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i am very sentimental about this play for many reasons, but mostly that it not only got me into early modern drama in undergrad but also showed me the potential of queer analysis and studies in that field. i still unironically think it's one of the b
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"rereading for dissertation/conference paper prep but also so excited for this new edition edited by jeffrey masten!" — Oct 20, 2026 05:32PM
"rereading for dissertation/conference paper prep but also so excited for this new edition edited by jeffrey masten!" — Oct 20, 2026 05:32PM
“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!”
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“You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!"
It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.”
― The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.”
― The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
“I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.”
― Maurice
― Maurice
“If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.”
― The Well of Loneliness
― The Well of Loneliness
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