a blog about literature
(kind of)
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose by John Singer Sargent
What You’ll Find Here
Discussions on modern literature and contemporary culture
Analysis of current trends in a historical context
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Intro to Cottagecore
My primary career goal is to move to Iceland and become a shepherd. I have no particular love for sheep, and I know next to nothing about Iceland, but this has been a half-serious ambition…
Realist Literature At Its Best
One of the worst misconceptions about realist literature is that it’s boring. Then again, I’ve never been one to care about whether or not things actually happen in the books I read, so maybe it…
Why Are You Laughing?
Breaking Bad is one of my favourite sitcoms. When I said this to my father, I wasn’t being serious, but he still looked at me as though I had two heads. He insisted that the…
For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
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