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chapter IV:
the conversation of women being disregarded as artists back in the day still carries modern relevance. where there’s double standards in the art and creative world bubble, women are often discredited or not receiving the same praise or forgiveness that men are prone to.

chapter III:
i gave in, it seems i am someone that needs to annotate the words that are important to me. but as i said before, i probably have 80% of this chapter underlined. so saying this book has been good thus far, would be an understatement.

i’m usually someone that annotates my books, but every line so far embeds a deep, flowering feeling in me that if i didn’t refrain from annotating at all, the entire book would be underlined and annotated.

reading samantha getting sucked into the hive mind of the bunnies was definitely immersive. also the bit about them being doubtful of acknowledging a homeless man, and secretly criticising victoria’s flaws internally whilst showering her with compliments conveys how much like artificial, sugary confections they are.

samantha’s world turning dark pink through literal heart shaped glasses just about embodies her transformation into a bunny. such a cute detail!

having finished ‘antigone’:
having been well versed in greek myth since i was a kid, the blatant misogyny in creon was disappointing, but not shocking. having antigone be headstrong, compared to that of a ‘man’, and still having her martyred, preserved as a symbol of persevering love and strength, is more rebellious than i expected. overall loved it!

upon finishing ‘oedipus at colonus’:
probably consists one of my favourite (perhaps even my most) choral odes thus far. the language of describing nightingales’ sounds in the greenery, the description of diadems resting upon the curls of goddesses, aphrodite’s golden rein. also wow sophocles is a comedian about oedipus being related to his daughters.

tag yourself i’m the lemony sugar smelling, confectionary resembling girl that evoked a real desire to be eaten

upon finishing ‘oedipus the king’:
i read polyneices by euripedes before fully dipping my toes into oedipus’ story by sophocles, and wow it really explains why this goes down as one of the most messy families in greek tragedy… talk about generational trauma AND incest!

not a fan of heracles, my poor girl deianeira…

not a fan of heracles, my poor girl deianeira…

how did philoctetes not die of sepsis??

fresh out of reading ‘elektra’, a tale of generational trauma and dysfunctional families, it’s one of my more favoured plays by sophocles so far.
melancholy plagues electra as the eldest daughter, left at the hands of her mother (clytemnestra), grieving her father, and reuniting with her baby brother. the complexities of their relationship was something i’d love to read more of.
beautiful! i annotated tons.

currently reading sophocles’ plays

“i am nothing in my soul if not obsessive”

“He regarded me with a chill distaste. ‘I love Homer,’ he said.”

“if i stayed in california i might have ended up in a cult” crazy how you left california and STILL ended up in a cult ☠️

“I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”

“Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”

“This is the only story i will ever be able to tell” yes i am rereading this book

i am never shutting up about this book ever.

hinc illae lacrimae.

NOOOO CAMILLA YOU DESERVED BETTER 😭😭😭😭

“dust thou art, to dust thou shalt return”

“forgive me, for all the things i did but mostly for the ones that i did not.”

this letter :(

“beauty is harsh” yeah, after recent progression of events, no shit

WHAT. THE. FUCK. WHAT DID HE WHISPER TO HER???? OH MY GOD?!?!?!????!!! i’m losing my mind.