books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them. (moodboards for my favorite classics)
THE APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA (unknown, ancient Mesopotamian fable)
I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me.
tfw you’re a young woman in the mid-nineteenth century who’s causing your parents consternation due to how many wax candles you burn so you can read in bed after dark, an expensive and dangerous activity associated with frivolous literature widely read by youth, ladies, and the lower classes, and commonly believed to cause ill health of various kinds
2019 is gonna be all about the monstrous feminine. here’s to keeping it feral, grotesque and unhinged, ladies 🥂
