The Dark Academia Girl

“I love you. You’re deliciously uncotemporary; you belong to a mystical past and also to a very remote future. For you, time isn’t money, it’s a precious essence, delicate, full of mystery. Just to breathe with someone like you does me good.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by Richard Howard, from “The Rock Garden,”

Auguste Ottin, Polyphemus surprising Acis and Galatea, Fontaine Médicis, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris.

Thoreau said, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Don’t be resigned to that. Break out! Break out! Now is the time!

DEAD POETS SOCIETY 1989 | Peter Weir

» John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836 - 1893)

Liverpool from Wapping

Stapleton Park near Pontefract Sun

Shipping on the Clyde

Park Row, Leeds

A Moonlit Lane

Blackman Street, London

The 16 types as their icks!!

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M E T A N O I A

[GREEK]

(n.) The journey of changing one's mind, heart, self, or way of life; spiritual conversion.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | We Should All Be Feminists | 2014

Paris mornings

I await a darling with the most literate of tongues and the most revolutionary of minds who whispers Shakespeare sonnets onto my lips at moonrise and enriches, enlightens me with art and poetry and language that will leave me gasping for air.