"How do we forgive our fathers? Maybe in a dream. Do we forgive our fathers for leaving us often, or forever, when we were little? Maybe for scaring us with unexpected rage, or making us nervous because there never seemed to be any rage at all? Do we forgive our fathers for marrying, or not marrying, our mothers? Or divorcing, or not divorcing, our mothers? And shall we forgive them for their excesses of warmth, or coldness? Shall we forgive them for pushing, or leaning? For shutting doors, or speaking through walls? For never speaking, or never being silent? Do we forgive our fathers in our age, or in theirs? Or in their death, saying it to them or not saying it. If we forgive our fathers, what is left?”
Thomas Builds-the-Fire, Smoke Signals, by Sherman Alexie
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why cant i be a 20th century schoolboy studying shakespeare with his group of morally grey friends
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my 79 year old english teacher just came out to me as bisexual and i am so aghast i can’t tell anyone bc i don’t wanna out him but i NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS
i was talking about dead poets society and walt whitman and then he just says “you know i had a gay lover when i was younger and we drove across europe together on the back of a motorcycle” EXCUSE ME??????????
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people need to stop turning books into mere tropes that are just sprinkled into the book. Someone told me the poppy war is a dark academia enemies to lovers book. Like no? It’s literally about genocide
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