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i am ready for autumn, thunderstorms, rain, cozy sweaters and melancholic evenings. my soul is just made for autumn.
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Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Violet Dickinson, wr. c. September 1907
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Anne Sexton, from "A Self-Portrait in Letters"
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Forgive me for making yet another post about the French Revolution but one small detail that makes me laugh is when, as things started to go seriously wrong, one of Louis XVI's advisers tried to persuade him & Marie-Antoinette to get away from Paris and wait for things to calm down (the idea was "if you lay low and wait, the newly-created National Assembly will vote something stupid and lose popular support" which was a solid plan honestly.) But he was also like "whatever you do, DO NOT go East or South or people will think you'll get help from other monarchies to restore your power and that won't calm things down"
So the King was advised to flee to Normandy, which... is just a short ferry ride away from another monarchy. But that's completely different since it's England. To be fair to the English, the French monarchy had basically bankrupted itself a few years back to send millions in support of the American revolutionaries because it would be a shame not to take advantage of "perhaps the best opportunity for centuries to come to put England in its place" (actual quote by France's minister of Foreign Affairs in 1777)
โstill I love the realistic approach of the King's adviser telling him, Sire you can't go near any of our borders rn, it'll escalate the situation, Parisians will know you're trying to get another country to help. Obviously you can go set up camp right across the sea from England though, that's fine since everyone knows the English wouldn't piss on us if we were on fireยน
ยน Perfidious Albion was like "aw no France is in turmoil and possibly weakened :) a shame :)" exactly like France re: them at the start of the US independence war
ยฒ they also thought well these backward french are finally following our glorious example and entering civilisation (parliamentary monarchy)
ยณ and only when the Girondins started being like "let's spread the French Revolution to the whole universe!!! or at least Belgium" did England finally decide "it's been a while since we last declared war on France actually" (but it was too late for Louis XVI)
โด That's not how footnotes work sorry. Trying to make my post look fancier
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Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. August 1951
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
โ Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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oh the joy of getting a letter from a new penpal ๐ reblog is ok, donโt repost
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28/10/23 | 10/11/23
"You were an autumn gift, one I'll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I'll never really see. You're the best thing that will ever happen to me."
- Ellen Hopkins; Crank
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Letter from autumn long ago ๐
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Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. August 1951
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Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre
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Photo by Nolimolly2 on dreamstime
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