Medusa In Culture

Christopher Mullins

“O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?”

— Dante Alighieri, from “The Divine Comedy”, published p. 1472

read in 2019. the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde

you will always be fond of me. i represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

I cannot wait the day I get to major in English. I want to immerse myself in Shakespeare and other british poets and authors. To learn about the culture and history of Britain and to speak this lovely language like my own again. The need is consuming me.

Why limit yourself between choosing a pretty feminine aesthetic or a dark one? If Persephone can be the Goddess of Spring and the Queen of the Underworld at the same time so can you.

i really like being pretentious and all but what i actually like even more is that i'm genuinely so invested in this hunt for knowledge that i'm on. like,,,, i do wanna know every work of shakespeare by heart and i do wanna read the night away draped over second hand philosophy books and a worn out volume of the illiad and i do wanna quote french poetry and oscar wilde at social events and i wanna be what history would call an intellectual and i wanna live and breathe these things i care about because i have a deep and consuming passion for them and i want to be as immersed in them as possible.

living in the old small town, wandering around with my dogs, having big house, wearing dark dresses, drinking lots of coffee, reading historical novels and collecting works of art

sorry i can’t hang out today, i read a richard siken poem so now i have to cry for ten hours