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21/9/21 | Working on some job applications while I wait for things to kick off and get busy

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Carmine Bellucci

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“There’s another way of reading Anne of Green Gables, and that’s to assume that the true central character is not Anne, but Marilla Cuthbert. Anne herself doesn’t really change throughout the book. She grows taller, her hair turns from ‘carrots’ to ‘a handsome auburn’, her clothes get much prettier, due to the spirit of clothes competition she awakens in Marilla, she talks less, though more thoughtfully, but that’s about it. As she herself says, she’s still the same girl inside. Similarly, Matthew remains Matthew, and Anne’s best chum Diana is equally static. Only Marilla unfolds into something unimaginable to us at the beginning of the book. Her growing love for Anne, and her growing ability to express that love - not Anne’s duckling-to-swan act - is the real magic transformation. Anne is the catalyst who allows the crisp, rigid Marilla to finally express her long-buried softer human emotions. At the beginning of the book, it’s Anne who does all the crying; by the end of it, much of this task has been transferred to Marilla. As Mrs Rachel Lynde says, ‘Marilla Cuthbert has got mellow. That’s what.’”

— Margaret Atwood [x]

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september 5: kind of a gloomy day today, i'm here drinking tea and doing a reading for class. already formulating a final paper idea (i think it would be interesting to look at depictions of cannibalism in colonial texts? i have a few texts in mind). a little tired from going out last night to dinner but ive managed to clean the kitchen and i have some grocery shopping to do tonight :)

listening: aquel nap zzzz - rauw alejandro

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I'm different, I'm special, I'm canonically eccentric, I'm a weird girl, I'm a little funny, I'm not all there, I'm beautiful minded, I'm gifted and talented, I'm slow on the uptake, I learn a little differently, I have my quirks, I have my struggles, I can be a bit scattered. My speech, mannerisms, and behavior demonstrate marked abnormalities. haters want to see me in a padded cell

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this next cup of coffee will fix me going on this walk around the neighbourhood will fix me this hot shower in the dark will fix me listening to this song again for the 90th time will fix me yelling at passing cars from behind my closed window will fix me blasting a movie at 60% volume will fix me laying on the floor will fi

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someone who loves you just told a sweet story about you. someone else just saw your favorite food in the store and almost bought it even though you’re far away. someone walked past your house and thought the garden looked nice. you are never as alone as you feel

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October beginnings. Nothing nicer than have a coffee and a good book to read in a cafe before work.

Currently reading: The Broken Shore by Peter Temple

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i'm back, and messier better than ever, ft. a giant croissant stuffed with cream and a bunch of old bookshelf finds

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yes i’m a gatekeeper and a hater. i’m also God’s favorite princess and the most interesting girl in the world

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17/08/2020

yesterday's post-workout breakfast and a completed weekly spread

🎧 home, cavetown

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Every once in a while I take some old books with me to put in the street library in my neighbourhood :)

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𝟽/𝟹𝟶 𝚍𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚒𝚝𝚢

Notes notes notes. I couldn’t live without my notebooks; I tried typing up thoughts and lecture notes, but it’s just not the same (and I quickly forget almost everything). I treated myself to some new Moleskines this semester, just because the whole world feels slightly out of hand these days, and now they accompany me on a daily basis. Currently working on ancient metallurgy and literary theory while it’s raining.

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ppl like “i was a gifted kid but now im dumb as shit ahhhh im so sad now weeeeh” shut the fuck up i grew up smart as shit and i’m smart now and i’ll die smart as fuck too. youre nothing.

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today’s details — dense readings on pain, torture and, to quote virginia woolf, where ‘language runs dry’ and uplifting vintage finds.

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ladies we need to start frantically and obsessively reading books in less than 24 hours again..remember how happy we were

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history | 150520 — 12:15

learning about chinese history on the side of my mandarin studies. making some tea <3