#the tale of two cities

[asoftepiloguemylove]

ON DREAMS

Clarice Lispector / pinterest / Augusto Cury / Li Qingzhao (tr. Jiaosheng Wang) Tune: The Pertridge Sky; Complete Poems / unknown / Blade Runner 2049 (2017) dir. Denis Villeneuve / Victor Hugo from a letter to Adèle Foucher written March 1822 / unknown / Charles Dickens The Fellow of No Delicacy; The Tale of Two Cities / Anaïs Nin The Diary of Anaïs Nin / Sappho XII / Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai dir. Jim Jarmusch

#it's like impossible to reverse image search movies forgive me #on dreams #on dreaming #web weave #web weaving #poetry parallels #poetry compilation #clarice lispector #augusto cury #li qingzhao #jiaosheng wang #the pertridge sky #blade runner #denis villeneuve #victor hugo #adele foucher #charles dickens #the tale of two cities #anais nin #sappho #on love #on loneliness #oh falling in love #on heartbreak #on emotion #poetry #spilled poetry #spilled thoughts #spilled ink #poem

[yours-truly-henry-jekyll]

Surprisingly, there's enough Tumblr sexymen in classic literature and here's my top:

1. Sydney Carton - our poor tired and depressed lawyer deserves every ounce of love he already has and much more to go. [Edit:] Severus Snape (the most legendary Tumblr sexyman ever (well apart from Onceler and Sans, I guess)) seems to be at least partially inspired by our dear boy Sydney

2. Henry Jekyll - let's return to the good old times of Onceler x Greedler asks. And who could be better candidate for such asks than the man whose name became synonymous with "split personality"?

3. Rodion Raskolnikov - should I even explain? Bad guy? Check! Intense? Check! Tragic backstory? Check! Duality motives? Check and billion times more check! Homoerotic implications with his best friend? Check! Truly, everything you may need to be a Tumblr sexyman...

4. Aleksandr Chatsky - contrarian, liberal, debater and the textbook definition of ENTP. Has his fair share of popularity with russian-speaking literature buffs but is yet to come to international fame. And his monologues are truly... something.

5. Yevgeniy Bazarov - your typical mad scientist sexyman. A weird unholy amalgamation of Viktor and Varian (both are as much as I know quite loved here). A doctor and somehow an edgy nihilist to boot. Also does already have some fans.

If you have suggestions feel free to comment

#classic literature #the tale of two cities #sydney carton #jekyll and hyde #dr jekyll #crime and punishment #raskolnikov #woe from wit #aleksandr chatsky #fathers and sons #bazarov #tumblr sexyman #tumblr sexypeople #i am crazy

[goffjames]

Open Box – Book Quotation of the Day by Charles Dickens

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#Art Music Photography Poetry Quotations #Book #Charles Dickens #Goff James Art Music Photography Poetry Quotations #goffjamesart #Quotation #The Tale of Two Cities

[sentient-stove]

“Not Metropolis?”

“If I’m going to be dealing with superheroes, I don’t want to also deal with aliens.”

She was still keeping decent pace with him- perks of not actually being a person he guessed- but Gotham was getting on his nerves. Probably on purpose, the city didn’t want him here and She apparently was willing to annoy him to a second death over it.

“And New York?”

“Shit’s fucked.” Danny offered. “I don’t even want to know what’s going on there.”

“Gods. Above the Empire State Building.” She said, and he tripped on cracked sidewalk, barely slowing his run.

“See? You’re my best bet. I’m late for class and your school’s the opposite direction.”

“I don’t go to school.”

“Tell that to your ‘Gotham Academy for the wealthy or whatever the name is’ uniform and your schoolgirl ponytail.”

“I’m a representation of the people.” She shot him a look, eyes again glowing as the spirit tapped into the the energy around her. “Amity Park, go home.”

“Lady Gotham, respectfully. Nah.”

#fanfic #wip hell #danny fenton #danny phantom #city spirits #lady gotham #dc comics #dc x dp #dpxdc #*leans into mic* it’s a tale of two cities you see #city spirit!Danny Fenton

[andhumanslovedstories]

#tale of two cities had me fuckin feral at the end

[secretmellowblog]

I love how Les Mis (the original novel) is so fundamentally hopeful about the power of rebellion and activism. So many adaptations/retellings of Les Mis imply its message is kinda shallow and defeatist— something about how rebellion never changes anything/always puts you back right where you began, so it’s wiser to never stand against the government. But that’s not the novel at all.

The original novel, which Hugo wrote as a barely-veiled call to action against the government of Napoleon III, is so convinced of the value of resistance against tyranny. The message is not that resistance is doomed to fail— it is that resistance to an unjust government is imperative, and it will be a moral victory even if the resistance is crushed.

The June rebellion in Les mis May have been repressed, and it may have failed in its goal of overthrowing the monarchy— but later rebellions did eventually succeed. France doesn’t have a monarchy anymore. A democracy is now in place, the way the rebels of 1832 would’ve wanted. There’s an undercurrent of hope throughout Les Mis— it’s not a story about how rebellion/resistance is futile, it’s a story about how it’s necessary, and about how positive social change is not only possible but also inevitable.

#les mis #barricade day #people really act like Les mis is a tale of two cities #which does have the shallow xec

[megairea]

“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859

#charles dickens #a tale of two cities #victorian #british literature #prose #literature

[pascalcampion]

Late night thoughts With a little help from Dickens

#pascalcampion kittycatandmanlyman #a tale of two cities

[unicornofthemidwest]

Girls will see narrative foils who hate each other but can never be separated and be like "they should kiss"

#follow up to the ham post #hamlet and laertes #hotspur and hal #pearl white and rose red #<-- from GQ not the fairy tale #also it's been a hot second since I read Tale of Two Cities but I want to say Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay?? #Valjean and javert #shakespeare #hamlet #henriad #ghost quartet #tale of two cities apparently #les mis

[cursemewithyourkiss]

#i had a vision #sir gawain and orestes were candidates but i decided to go with one character per mythology or author #only so many options... #brideshead revisited #a tale of two cities #dracula #hamlet #frankenstein #les miserables #crime and punishment #the picture of dorian gray #greek mythology #arthuriana #my polls

[boylikeanangel]

this one still frame of a poster has more physical contact between aziraphale and crowley than there was in the entirety of season 1. get in the fucking clown car loser we're going to see the funny angel and demon kiss on july 28

#AZIRAPHALE IS READING A TALE OF TWO CITIES TO CROWLEY. WHISLT CROWLEY LEANS AGAINST HIM. WE ARE NOT SURVIVING . #good omens #good omens season 2 #ineffable husbands

[femmehysteria]

I'm doing a series of "Best Character Named X" polls where all the characters have the same first name but are from completely different media, feel free to send in name/charcacter suggestions, I'm posting one poll a day, check my pinned post for active polls

#best character named x #poll #poll game #sydney adamu #sidney prescott #sid the sloth #sydney carton #cid ffxvi #sid toy story #the bear #scream #ice age #a tale of two cities #final fantasy #toy story

[paraheronstairs]

can we please talk about the scene where clary asks jace (controlled by sebastian) to read to her and he picks A TALE OF TWO CITIES BY CHARLES DICKENS

and she describes the golden written title and the dedication that can’t be read BECAUSE IT FADED WITH TIME

you could only see “with hope at last, william herondale”

because i cried in that moment as if the ceilling fell on my bookshelf

#the shadowhuter chronicles #shadowhunters #tmi #the infernal devices #the mortal instruments #clary fairchild #jace herondale #clockwork princess #will herondale #tessa gray #jem carstairs #clace #wessa #a tale of two cities #clockwork angel #clockwork prince #city of lost souls #the way i cried dont even get me started ok

[bookish-charm]

Classics: book haul, thrift store edition

#bookblr #booklr #book aesthetic #books #charles dickens #a tale of two cities #a tree grows in brooklyn #Betty smith #rebecca #daphne du maurier #Plato #the last days of socrates #nathanial hawthorne #the scarlet letter #Voltaire #candide #classics #and I got all of this for less than $7 #gotta love thrift stores #dark academia #chaotic academia #literature

[rosepompadour]

A TALE OF TWO CITIES (1935)

#what does it say about me that my first ever book crush (of the non-gilbert type) was sydney carton? #nine-year-old me did not have a favorite backstreet boy because none of them were capable of making The Ultimate Sacrifice 🩷💞 #a tale of two cities #ronald colman #elizabeth allan #the silver screen #marshmallow worlds #*

[gayboss-too-close-to-the-sun]

There's something about the novels I've read that are obsessed with Napoleon - Les Miserables, War and Peace, The Count of Monte Cristo - and something about the novel's I've read that are obsessed with the French Revolution - A Tale of Two Cities, The Scarlet Pimpernel (Les Miserables is about a French Revolution but not the French Revolution). Those are the threads between those books, but somehow it feels stronger than just similar themes. I want to sit and spend a year reading nothing but those five books back to back and see what I learn.

#do tell me what other france centered classics i'm missing out on #seriously the count of monte cristo has changed my life #kit reads classics #les mis #war and peace #tcomc #a tale of two cities #(which i hated btw but i will reread it someday and like it better) #the scarlet pimpernel