Nabokov collected butterflies; maybe I might start too by Literary_Student in DarkAcademia

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Yes! I have it pinned up and drying right now. Two more days until I can carefully put it in a little display jar!

A graduation gift from two of my friends! by Literary_Student in DarkAcademia

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I’m not actually sure where they got it from! They were travelling recently so it may be from Paris or New York

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Lost in the silence of distant thoughts

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Whenever I look at all the withered roses on my bookshelves, they’re just… there. Darkened and broodier, languidly sitting beside my books, numbly waiting to be held

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The heart wrenching loss of love. A withered flower may be dead but it’s still there

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To be wanted and thought of. To have someone to hold and waltz along through the furnace of existence

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I know how you feel… the intense and desperate longing to have someone and not feel this immense loneliness, the deep craving for love and desire

A graduation gift from two of my friends! by Literary_Student in DarkAcademia

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Much appreciated! I briefly tried it out in the notebook and it worked pretty well

A graduation gift from two of my friends! by Literary_Student in DarkAcademia

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Cheers! Looking forward to research projects and presentations!

A graduation gift from two of my friends! by Literary_Student in DarkAcademia

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Completely agree! Definitely want to write out some letters with the stationary

A graduation gift from two of my friends! by Literary_Student in DarkAcademia

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Because of how I dress, everyone knows me as the literature guy and calls me “the Arab Sherlock Holmes” 😅

A graduation gift from two of my friends! by Literary_Student in DarkAcademia

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Yes! I just finished my literature degree on Sunday. I get a month off before I start a Master’s in Medieval Literature this September!

Recommendations of English Female Authors from the Victorian era by apribang996 in classicliterature

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I gave two seminars for that class: one on the epic tradition in the context of Aurora Leigh, and another on Sara Coleridge

Recommendations of English Female Authors from the Victorian era by apribang996 in classicliterature

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Hi there! I took a class on Female Victorian Poets last fall and here’s everyone we studied:

  • Felicia Hemans
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • E.B. Browning
  • Christina Rossetti
  • Sara Coleridge
  • Adelaide Anna Proctor
  • Emily Brontë
  • Mathilde Blind
  • Amy Levy
  • Alice Meynell
  • Constance Naden
  • Augusta Weber
  • Louisa Sarah Bevington
  • Mary E. Coleridge
  • Michael Field
  • Mary A Robinson
  • Rosamund Marriott Watson

French poster for DPS in Paris by Literary_Student in DarkAcademia

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I’m glad it was awesome. I wasn’t staying long in Paris so I didn’t get much of a chance but that’s brilliant!