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Alejandro Zambra, Ways of Going Home (translated by Megan McDowell)

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Sacred City of Caral-Supe, Peru.

The site dates back to the Late Archaic Period of the Central Andes and is the oldest centre of civilization in the Americas. Exceptionally well-preserved, the site is impressive in terms of its design and the complexity of its architectural, especially its monumental stone and earthen platform mounts and sunken circular courts. One of 18 urban settlements situated in the same area, Caral features complex and monumental architecture, including six large pyramidal structures. A quipu (the knot system used in Andean civilizations to record information) found on the site testifies to the development and complexity of Caral society….https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1269/

#oh my god #so awesome #archaeology

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From Villa of Cicero, Pompeii.

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@academia-lucifer

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@academia-lucifer

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@the-reverii

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The entrance to eternity.

Hardwick MA 2/7/20

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would ya just look at that light—

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our moon

pictures from a vintage astronomy book i picked up in berlin few years back

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Frank Frazetta, 1966

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coffee and used bookstores

#studyblr #dark academia #light academia #academia aesthetic #university life #writblr #university student #books and coffee #english literature

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sylvia plath & virgina woolf

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kurt vonnegut, being good at things is not the point of doing them.

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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

— John Green.