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“No matter how lonely I might become…the world around me had become my lover and my teacher. I was enraptured with the cathedrals and castles, the museums and palaces that I saw. In every place I visited, I went to the heart of society: I drank up its entertainments and its gossip, its literature and its music, its architecture and its art.”

Incredible writing. Anne Rice, you’ve taken me by surprise

Falling terribly behind in my reading lately (woe is me), BUT feeling grateful I listened to Rime of the Ancient Mariner so many times today as page 151 here reads: “I feel the weight of my nightmare like the albatross around the neck of the ancient mariner.”
Understanding a reference is a drug to me, sorry not sorry

slow going on this one, but three new books i definitely didn’t just spend $100 on await me after this quick one, so will plow through!!

i think i’ve seen this film before (an androgynous and clever ginger boy) (francis abernathy) (cubitum eamus?)

THE TENSIONNNNN

where is the tension?

Ah, how I admire the genius of writers who embark on stories of queer obsession. Give me MORE of this, please.

OOOH baby im ready for perturbation up in here

i’m hooked you guys

“His finger tapped the slight concavity of Achilles’ temple. A chill went through me to see it touched, that place where Achilles’ life was so slenderly protected. I was glad when we spoke of other things.”

need to go back on the gay lit scene after my brief absence

page 350 and we just hit chapter five….five

in true donna tartt-reading fashion it is taking me well over a week to finish this book