no other side.

all those reviews of Lolita which are like 'this young temptress is devilishly sexy'

counterpoint: Eric Burdon of the Animals.

this post should get me the FIFA Peace Prize

you have no idea what an act of magnanimity it is for a Mancunian to say Liverpool is fine.

You have a bunch of spoiled rich kids essentially bundled off somewhere harmless and out of the way and then everyone else we see at the university is kind of just an ordinary schmo. The clique is so absurd because they’re pretending to be somewhere they’re not

I think the big difference between The Secret History and Dark Academia is that the university in TSH is explicitly a second rate establishment full of people who couldn’t get into the Ivies.

(spoilers)

not so much in the murder *itself* but in Julian's total abnegation of responsibility when he finds out, the beloved teacher/mentor proving an entirely fallible human.

in biography but not in character, I think.

Julie Schumacher

you prob know this but Zapp is a thinly disguised Stanley Fish

Great book

Have a hunch this website would have some different takes if it was about a humanities student being corralled into Further Maths