"...therefore, be bold."

The tumblelog of an ["independent scholar" and "student of the world" (i.e. a confessed lifelong lit. nerd taking time off from school)] undergraduate currently attending university and residing in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Interests include: Classics (i.e. ancient Greek and Latin), Shakespeare, American History, Continental Philosophy, Modernist poetry, Historical Linguistics (of the Proto-Indo-European variety), Literary Criticism and Theory, mysticism, Fine Art, Anglicanism and Catholicism, Technology, Baroque music, drinking coffee/tea/wine/scotch, wasting time online, and making stupid jokes. Pipes and tobacco are delightful too. Apparently I have a thing for gals reading but hey, that's cool.

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Apr 14

“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn’t they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?”

Don DeLillo (via creatingaquietmind)

Thanks D² (as Wallace puts it in a postcard) for the lovely, profound verities.

(Source: seaofwisdom, via teachingliteracy)

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