Take in the view from Buda Castle overlooking the Danube River in Budapest, Hungry.
Photograph by Seth Kugel, The New York Times/Redux
Source: National Geographic
Ditty, our ship cat, looking magnificent and nautical.
Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.
last post on this hopefully but it does genuinely anger me that my professor is essentially butchering an entire class worth of perceptions on percy shelley who is already so neglected in U.S. literary curricula and suffers due to the faults of his own sexist critics starting generations long gender wars with critics of mary shelley who in turn took it out on percy to prove a point despite the fact that mary devoted much of her life to protecting percy & his works from his detractors & the fact that they were mutual collaborators who supported each other!!! and now i have no choice but to defend him for my final paper and/or other essays lol
recently started some new classes and i’m finally getting to officially study the romantics in one of them!!! i’m so overexcited and its so strange to finally read/write about them and their lives in an official class after so long of doing this as my personal weird hobby. it’s especially lucky since i’m graduating soon and this is the first time they’ve offered this course since i’ve been here
week one and everythjng was going great until the professor told us to watch the 2018 mary shelley biopic which i have multiple tumblr posts actively derailing because it’s literally historical fiction which fuels me with hatred on a daily basis. not only am i not watching it, as i could barely sit through it the first time before i even knew much about the shelleys, but i am also refraining from saying anything about it bc its just for the betterment of all that i dont… its not worth it… i am just disappointed…
honestly the movie objectively isnt thaaat bad as a movie & it did have some cool things about it but i wish they portrayed these figures more accurately even just in their personalities (aside from the bigger factual inaccuracies). they had such a great opportunity to make the film great, and it had some elements where you could see hints of what it could’ve been and its failed potential, but then it was a flop… for valid reasons!!!
recently started some new classes and i’m finally getting to officially study the romantics in one of them!!! i’m so overexcited and its so strange to finally read/write about them and their lives in an official class after so long of doing this as my personal weird hobby. it’s especially lucky since i’m graduating soon and this is the first time they’ve offered this course since i’ve been here
week one and everythjng was going great until the professor told us to watch the 2018 mary shelley biopic which i have multiple tumblr posts actively derailing because it’s literally historical fiction which fuels me with hatred on a daily basis. not only am i not watching it, as i could barely sit through it the first time before i even knew much about the shelleys, but i am also refraining from saying anything about it bc its just for the betterment of all that i dont… its not worth it… i am just disappointed…
recently started some new classes and i’m finally getting to officially study the romantics in one of them!!! i’m so overexcited and its so strange to finally read/write about them and their lives in an official class after so long of doing this as my personal weird hobby. it’s especially lucky since i’m graduating soon and this is the first time they’ve offered this course since i’ve been here
god it's like nobody even cares that [problem i've taken great pains to make sure nobody will acknowledge] looks like i have no choice but to make it worse in isolation for reasons i can't articulate and don't understand
Byron and Shelley chronicle their 1816 sailing trip in Lake Geneva — Days 8/9, June 29th/30th.
Percy Shelley, History of a Six Weeks' Tour:
“On Saturday the 30th of June we quitted Ouchy, and after two days of pleasant sailing arrived on Sunday evening at Montalegre.”
And thus concludes their tour around the lake.
#and thus concludes pride month lmfao#if i fucked up the dates oh well#this is queued#2nd photo is#villa diodati#3rd is its balcony#which connected to byrons room i believe. no one is allowed to see the interior#shelley and byron’s sailing trip#literature#english literature#aesthetic#poetry#lord byron#romanticism#history#writing#percy shelley#geneva squad#romantics#romantic poets#photos#geneva#switzerland#summer of 1816#travel
I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.
-Sylvia Plath
In response to this post reblogged by @faintingheroine, here's an outline of the uses of "Catherine" and "Cathy" throughout Wuthering Heights to refer to both Catherine Earnshaw and her daughter Catherine Linton.
I just copied and pasted an online edition of the book into a Word document, then used the Find option to searched for every instance of either "Catherine" or "Cathy.
- Catherine Earnshaw never calls herself "Cathy." Whenever she speaks or writes her own name, it's always "Catherine."
- Mr. Earnshaw only calls his daughter "Cathy."
- Likewise, Hindley always calls his sister "Cathy" when speaking to her, but he refers to her as "Miss Catherine" when speaking to Heathcliff – sending the message that this is how he wants Heathcliff to address her.
- Nelly calls her both "Catherine" and "Cathy" throughout her narration and her spoken dialogue alike. But her proportion of "Catherines" to "Cathys" gradually changes. She almost exclusively says "Cathy" when the latter is a little girl, then uses the two names interchangeably during her preteen and earlier teen years, but comes to use just "Catherine" after her marriage.
- While Nelly talks about her, either in her narration or to other characters, she usually just says "Catherine" or "Cathy," only now and then adding a formal "Miss." But when she speaks to her, unless I'm mistaken, she always says "Miss Catherine," "Miss Cathy," or later, "Mrs. Linton."
- Heathcliff calls her "Cathy" and "Catherine" interchangeably, but he slightly favors "Cathy," and unlike Nelly, he continues using "Cathy" after her marriage and after her death too.
- Edgar only calls his wife "Catherine." Nelly points this out and speculates that Heathcliff's habit of saying "Cathy" made Edgar averse to calling her that.
- Isabella almost always calls her "Catherine" too, but she does utter one "Cathy" in anger as they argue about Heathcliff.
- Joseph refers to her as "Dame Catherine" once and as "Miss Cathy" twice.
- Lockwood only refers to her as "Catherine."
- Catherine Linton doesn't say her own name as often as her mother did, but she seems open to thinking of herself as either "Catherine" or "Cathy." When Linton calls her "Miss," she asks him to use either of the two names instead.
- Once again, Nelly calls her "Cathy" or "Catherine" interchangeably until her marriage, at which point she switches almost entirely to "Catherine." But to the end, she still lets a "Cathy" slip now and then, which she didn't with the elder Catherine.
- Nor does Nelly only call her "Miss Catherine" or "Miss Cathy" when speaking to her; sometimes she drops formality and just calls her "Catherine" or "Cathy" to her face.
- Edgar only calls his daughter "Cathy"; it's his way of distinguishing her from her mother. So when he calls for "Catherine" on his deathbed, though Nelly responds as if he means his daughter, we can safely assume that he's really calling for his dead wife.
- By contrast, Heathcliff only calls her "Catherine."
- Linton also just uses "Catherine," even after she invites him to say "Cathy" if he likes.
- Despite being her ultimate love interest, Hareton only speaks her name twice, fairly early in their acquaintance, and both times it's "Miss Catherine."
- As with her mother, Lockwood only thinks of her as "Catherine" too.
Conclusion? "Cathy" is used as a family nickname (with servants included among the family circle who use it), and in particular as a childhood nickname. In both generations, Nelly seems to instinctively avoid using it once the girl becomes a married woman, nor does either Catherine's husband use it. The fact that Nelly still occasionally calls the second Catherine "Cathy" to the end of the book highlights her motherly affection for her. And the fact that Heathcliff freely calls Catherine Earnshaw "Cathy" to the end is probably a reminder that he's just as much family as a love interest to her, and that he always views her as his childhood companion.
You are an angel! This is amazing!
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I wake up. I consume media. I wish my life was different. I make no effort to change it. I consume more media. I go to sleep.
