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they just used cocaine to anesthetize the windpipe?? what the hell? this book was written in 1969? i thought cocaine was last used in medicine in the 1800s…

“To-day does not count,” he told her, “except that every time I see you counts with me.”

I’m sorrry WHAT? why is this cowboy such a hopeless romantic

“In a very few days, gossip had it that Molly was engaged to a gambler, a gold miner, an escaped stage robber, and a Mexican bandit; while Mrs. Flynt feared she had married a Mormon.”

The last one would definitely be the worst, I’ve seen SLOMW…

A man who thinks he can learn something from a woman and wants to read the books she likes and recommends to understand her better? what a dreamboat and a completely unrealistic male character

starting to think owen wister wasn’t sent to the west for his nerves but rather because of his homosexuality because honey what is this description of the virginian

Es fühlt sich richtig an, das Buch in einem Schweizer Zug aus Hamburg anzufangen.

“if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least”

at last ishmael and i agree on something

it‘s interesting that melville‘s text criticizes astrology here, when writing moby-dick and expecting it to be a best-seller is the most over confident leo delusion i have ever seen

Herman, maus, i don’t think you understand how little of a fuck i give about whale phrenology

I want the grandfather to die more than i do daniel quilp…useless old man

“Noah Webster’s ark does not hold it” nice wordplay :)

"the death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover"

highly questionable but banger quote

steven spielberg it’s okay that jaws is world war ii moby dick but must you copy farewell and adieu to you, spanish ladies this blatantly?

“besides that weird classics group (and they’re probably roaming the countryside sacrificing farmers and performing weird pagan rituals)”

this secret history tease

“no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor”—fun!

of course the usher has consumption...

i want to grab both her shoulders and shake!!!

i need this man to die violently and embarrassingly

this made my mother understand me as a person so thanks john green!

hudson river school mentioned?

i should read more books by people i follow on twitter

"also ich möchte in meinem leben nicht arbeiten, ich mein, ich will schon gern arbeiten, aber das, was ich arbeiten will, das gibt es gar nicht, und wenn, kann man damit kein geld verdienen." #real

„I had a collection of lovers to keep me warm and my friendships with women, who always fascinated me by their wit, bravery, and resourcefulness, and who never told you the same story twice.” so true

Great read to start at 4 in the morning when you’ve finished one book and want to commit to not using your phone so instead of listening to the audiobook you start the next book in the big big tower of books on the nightstand

next travel destination will be to zurich to spit on james joyce’s grave

omg he’s so big *twirls hair* he could kill someone *bites lip* or be a first responder

looking camp right in the eye

I need to go on a hike right tf now! preferably massachusetts, however, the lüneburg heath will have to do