The Secret History - Blog Posts
everyone loves seeing the happy character show a shocking reveal of sadness,
i want them to get mad.
i want them to scream until their vocal chords snap. i want harsh truths laid out. i want them to be judgemental and cruel. i dont want them to end crying or upset. i want hard, marbled fury. i want the embodiment of a raging hurricane trapped in a glass box. i want the box to be cracked and the wrong word is the last chip it needs to break. no storming off or apologies. they mean what they said and wont ever take it back.
rip henry winter you wouldve hated percy jackson
the snow in the mountains was melting and bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to realize the gravity of our situation.
Oh captain, my captain...
Mentioning the Secret History is enough to make me wanna forever bind souls with someone
PLEASE, someone who has read the Goldfinch message me. I just finished it, and I need to hyperfixate with someone
Imagining TSH characters during the covid pandemic is so weirdly hilarious to me ,like you can't tell me that Francis didn't have one of those super fancy, super useless masks or that Henry wasn't totally clueless about the pandemic until like 5 months into it
I get endless entertainment trying to picture any of the TSH characters doing the 50% of academia that’s just standard administrative nonsense. Henry Winter had all the ego of a famous academic sure, but imagine if he’d lived. This man would’ve reached a point in his career where he would’ve had to upload class readings onto Canvas. Imagine sixty year old Professor Henry Winter trying to come up with an AI use policy.
A friend I recently made sat down with me for supper today and asked if I’ve read The Secret History because I “dress as someone who would’ve.”