reading back an email i sent to my english teacher while i was having an episode and holy shit
Favorite part of allegory of the cave is when Plato went "It's allegorin' time" and totally caved all over those guys
the concept of having a girlfriend is insane a girl laughs at your jokes enough times and then you’re like i guess it’s my life’s mission to make you do that forever
*standing in the middle of a busy highway blocking traffic* it sure is lonely out here in space
what if i *remembers that making suicide jokes is not conducive with my goal of improving the wellbeing of myself and everyone around me* transform into an oyster
“In Dostoevsky the characters and situations always stand for more than themselves; infinity attends them; though yet they remain individuals they expand to embrace it and summon it to embrace them; one can apply to them the saying of St. Catherine of Siena that God is in the soul and the soul is in God as the sea is in the fish and the fish is in the sea.”
~ E.M. Forster, in “Aspects of the Novel”
my take on the books vs fanfic debate is that the written word was invented by the devil