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"I'd like to go with you."
"Even though I haven't fixed the air conditioning in this car?"
"Even so."
American Fuji, p.277 S. Backer - 2001
"YOU TOO, KANE - OR DO I HAVE TO TRANSLATE IT TO NEANDERTHAL FOR YOU?"
-Gym teacher, Freak the Mighty
I SWEAR WHEN I GET MY HANDS AROUND YOUR NECK, BITCH
"My father was a magician. He heard the words 'birth defect', and disappeared."
- Kevin/Freak, Freak the Mighty (Rodman Philbrick, 1993)
FREAK, YOU LITTLE SHIT, I LOVE YOU
"My father was a magician. He heard the words 'birth defect', and disappeared."
- Kevin/Freak, Freak the Mighty (Rodman Philbrick, 1993)
FREAK, YOU LITTLE SHIT, I LOVE YOU
Love can only be found in two places: in a second hand bookstore on a rainy Sunday afternoon in fall or in the middle of summer in a cute Starbucks barista 5 minutes before they close for the night.
“Hell is eternal apartness”
- Harper Lee, Go Set A Watchman
Just saying, Stevenson is 100% projecting his guilt on his very liberal views (for the time) and finding a way to cope with the religious trauma of how he was raised and disappointing his father.
He’s making the personification of Edward Hyde devilish to show that he feels he is a monster who disappointed his father. Even tho he doesn’t want to care about what his father feels.
Also just saying Hyde writes with his left hand which was seen as a sign of the devil during this time
I’ve been reading a lot of 19th century literature ever since Nosferatu(2024) came out and I’ve gotten to The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
But as I’m reading this, I don’t think Edward Hyde existed at all
From how Dr. Jekyll writes this account he seems to be fully in control and observant as opposed to a passenger in his own body
The only different is this drug he is taking is freeing him from religious inhibition. (the Calvinistic belief that you must deprive yourself of pleasure because it’s sinful.) but because the drug makes him look younger, he’s using it as an excuse to personify the “sinful” urges he has and rid his conscious of blame
Tumblr is now going to be my outlet for talking about books
Me: *picking up an old book because I feel obliged to read the classics*
Old book: Have some R A C I S M
Me: hold on-
Old book: How bout some ye olde S E X I S M
Me: what no-
Old book: Sprinkle in some hOmOpHoBiA
*Puts down old book*
For all the nerds, geeks and book lovers and library-sitters who are always left out.
This is for you.
My grandparents bought this for my mother during the 90's- they're stored in excellent condition! Not a page torn or out of place. They smell ancient and I think I sniff at them more than I read them.
Walton: * patiently listens to Frankenstein's account of his supposed monster *
Frankenstein: * eagerly expects a response *
Walton: ...
Ye dumb?
Frankenstein: ...what?
Walton: You could have just presented him with a dog or a cat or any kind of pet of his choosing and avoided all that!
Frankenstein: ...oh ye.
Female hands in paintings