Hamlet: Do You Have The Time?

Before the internet, librarians were the gatekeeper of knowledge. For your reading pleasure, the New York Public Library released a cache of queries and conundrums called in from the 1940s to the 1980s.

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not evil anymore i want to be loved now

reblog this if you are gay, constantly tired, or a cryptic entity that merely inhabits a human form

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

No one:

Absolutely no one:

Voltaire and Rousseau every time:

i wanted to feel loved without feeling like i was begging for it

sometimes its just like *street lights reflecting off the wet asphalt at night* maybe life isnt so ugly after all

Maybe this is just a symptom of BPD but does anyone else ever feel emotions so intensely they almost want to throw up

Like when I’m angry I’m angry and other feelings like guilt or emptiness make me want to die.

the first people to ever use terms of endearment for each other must have been so in love i’m in tears just thinking about it