#classics

Australian dark academia folks where you at

i wanna know

#harley’s head, #i wanna know, #can you show me, #dark academia, #light academia, #australia, #australian, #literature, #classics, #greek mythology, #australian gothic

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Like, did Virgil write the Eclogues and the Georgics because he wanted Rome to return to a pastoral life? Or did he just want to be a Worm

#virgil, #classics, #classicist, #the aeneid

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«denique dolore atque inedia decessit»

—Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni

26.05.20, 10.45am

#latin, #quote, #classics, #literature, #dark academia

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Karen M Cox, The Darcy Monologues

A guy in a suit had approached the table—geez, they moved fast around here—but Lynley just smiled and pointed my way as she thanked him.
‘Friend of yours?’ I asked, not liking the tension in my voice.
‘No, just a knight in shining armor seeing a lone damsel in perceived distress.’
‘I don’t think there’s much distress you can’t handle.’
‘See that, right there’—she pointed at me—’ exactly the right thing to say. Yep, you’re a smooth one.’ She took a sip. ‘But I am, in fact, a little distressed.’
‘Why?’ I reached out a hand, drew it back.
She was focused on her drink, not on me, so she missed the gesture. ‘And regardless of how awkward I feel, I had to come here tonight—to thank you, on behalf of the families who depend on Fairlight Farm, since they don’t know specifically who to thank.’

#William Darcy, #Lynley Barrister, #I still get jealous, #flirting, #this scene, #I see what you did there, #I Darcy, #Karen M Cox, #Pride and Prejudice, #Jane Austen, #short stories, #anthologies, #retellings, #Austenesque, #classics, #British lit

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Karen M Cox, The Darcy Monologues

’…Mr. Bingley might like you best of the party.’ I grinned. So, Mr. Bennet was a snarky ***; I hadn’t remembered that. I appreciated snark, although I wasn’t particularly gifted with it myself. I kept reading.
‘You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.’
A bark of laughter escaped me; the sound of mirth echoing into the quiet.
By the time Corbin returned, the Diet Coke was warm, the chips were almost gone, and I was at Mr. Bingley’s house. In the middle of chapter 10, I silently confessed I’d been entertained, and was no half in love with Elizabeth Bennet myself.

#William Darcy, #Mr. Bennet, #Elizabeth Bennet, #underappreciated side characters, #the magic of reading, #my thoughts exactly, #I Darcy, #Karen M Cox, #Pride and Prejudice, #Jane Austen, #short stories, #anthologies, #retellings, #Austenesque, #classics, #British lit

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Karen M Cox, The Darcy Monologues

‘He’s a complete social klutz. If Darcy really had a thing for Elizabeth, and yet he still made all those blunders up to and including the time when he proposed, she wouldn’t give him the time of day after that, no matter what the revered Jane Austen would have you believe. Any time a real woman encounters a real man who actually acts like Mr. Darcy, she brushes him off like a piece of lint.

#William Darcy, #Mr. Darcy, #Elizabeth Bennet, #cynically romantic, #I Darcy, #Karen M Cox, #Pride and Prejudice, #Jane Austen, #short stories, #anthologies, #retellings, #Austenesque, #classics, #British lit

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#GIF, #angry, #cartoon, #mad, #rage, #pissed, #looney tunes, #dislike, #classics, #tantrum, #taz, #tazmanian dev

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I’ve been thinking about the political nature of classics as a subject… it’s really the only academic discipline that has a political bias at it’s core. It used to be an extremely right wing subject due to the elitist nature perpetuated by the Victorian imperialist attitude that sought to mirror Roman conquest in society. This has caused a real stigma in the classical world which we have only in recent years begun to breach by bringing classical disciplines to a greater variety of politically and socially diverse locations and comminities. As such I feel there is a real growing left wing presence due to the work of those such as Mary Beard in the world of classics which adds dimesionaltiy and diversity to research and development. These shifts and changes are what makes Classics so interesting… there really is no other subject like it…

#tagamemnon, #achilles, #cicero, #classics, #greece, #iliad, #ancient rome, #ancient greek mythology, #ancient greece, #ancient history

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Karen M Cox, The Darcy Monologues

First impressions often make a significant difference in how well you’re received.

#Lynley Barrister, #William Darcy, #fictional first meetings, #first impressions, #I see what you did there, #words of wisdom, #I Darcy, #Karen M Cox, #Pride and Prejudice, #Jane Austen, #short stories, #anthologies, #retellings, #Austenesque, #classics, #British lit

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Karen M Cox, The Darcy Monologues

‘I’m not surprised it didn’t stick with you, because it’s forgettable—a two-hundred-year-old book by an English spinster who most likely never spent any time with a real man in her whole, lonely, miserable life. A book where everybody gets married, as if that’s the be-all, end-all objective of existence. In the words of the kid from The Princess Bride, it’s a “kissing book.” The illustrious Mr. Darcy is the main schmuck in a book full of schmucks. He starts out somewhat reasonable, but then he gets led around by his gonads just like every other dude in the story.’
‘You seem to know a lot about this book.’
‘You would too if your last name was Darcy.’ I mimicked an affected tone. ‘So, you’re Mr. Darcy. Ha-ha-ha-ha. I’ve been looking for you all my life.’ With a grim shake of my head, I took a sip of my bourbon and branch. ‘His first name was even Fitzwilliam.’
‘That sounds a lot like William.’
‘Yep. My mother’s little joke—English lit major that she was. Bought me a lifetime of misery with that name.’
'‘So, that’s why you go by Liam?’
'Exactly.’
'I guess you’re not a fan.’
'I’m not not a fan, Corbin. I just think Mr. Darcy is a romanticized, overblown, emotional outlet for every woman who refuses to be satisfied with a real-world, flesh-and-blood man.’

#William Darcy, #cynically romantic, #what's in a name, #nicknames, #I Darcy, #Karen M Cox, #Pride and Prejudice, #Jane Austen, #short stories, #anthologies, #retellings, #Austenesque, #classics, #British lit

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Ruth Phillips Oakland,
The Darcy Monologues

‘He and Jane are so much alike, never wanting to upset anyone.’
Darcy agreed. 'They are always apologizing to each other. Yesterday she was chopping onions and Bingley’s eyes began to water. Jane was horrified that she’d poisoned him while Bingley was doing his best to beg forgiveness for having eyes in the first place.’

#Lizzy Bennet, #Fitzwilliam Darcy, #Jane Bennet, #Charles Bingley, #character, #sarcasm, #cute couples, #Pride and Prejudice, #Jane Austen, #short stories, #anthologies, #retellings, #Austenesque, #classics, #British lit

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Ruth Phillips Oakland,
The Darcy Monologues

He now knew she interpreted his flirting banter as not-so-subtle criticism.

#Fitzwilliam Darcy, #Lizzy Bennet, #introvert problems, #opps, #Ruth Phillips Oakland, #The Ride Home, #awkward Darcy, #Pride and Prejudice, #Jane Austen, #short stories, #anthologies, #retellings, #Austenesque, #classics, #British lit

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R. Spektor

#art, #dark academia, #literature, #poetry, #dark academia aesthetic, #light academia, #quotes, #poets, #classics

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Sophia Rose,
The Darcy Monologues

‘Your friend—without a name—sounds nice. I’ll be happy to meet her.’
Georgie snickered. ‘Good. And don’t frown at her and scare her off. She’s very nice. And pretty. And really smart.’ Her voice became sharp with warning. ‘Oh, and don’t wear one of your stodgy suits. Smile and play nice.’
He laughed. ‘Fine, George! I promise to not scare off your friend and to not embarrass you with my clothes.’

#Will Darcy, #Georgie Darcy, #siblings, #family, #Sophia Rose, #Darcy Strikes Out, #Pride and Prejudice, #Jane Austen, #short stories, #anthologies, #retellings, #Austenesque, #classics, #British lit

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Natalie Richardson,
The Darcy Monologues

When had Lizzy Bennet become so important to me? How? There was no sudden realization; it was simply there, as if it always had been. My feelings would not be repressed.