#dissertation blogging

i love the way the meaning of the word gothic has changed but it's fucking annoying when you're trying to use a) the architectural meaning, b) a nuance of the architectural meaning, and c) the literary meaning all at once

Darling, it's all for you. We're doing all this for you. I wish you could be here to see us. The streets are not all that different - you wouldn't get lost - but we are very different these days. [...] The weight of a lover's arm on your shoulder is not a sensation you can ever enjoy now, nothing can ever be worth what was done to you, nothing can change that, but oh almost it does. We're walking your streets.

'Those who know not what love is will write, I know, if fate is against us, that I have had a bad influence upon your life [...] Our love was always beautiful and noble, and if I have been the butt of a terrible tragedy, it is because the nature of that love has not been understood.

London is very dangerous: writers come out at night and writ one, the roaring of creditors towards dawn is frightful, and solicitors are getting rabies and biting people.