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I'm Abbey, I'm twenty-two years old, and I'm from Ohio. I'm currently wrapping up my B.A. in English literature with an emphasis in both Early to Middle British literature [think Beowulf to Chaucer] and early British and American Modernism [think Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Wharton, James, etc.] Literature and reading are basically my life and I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm applying now for my M.A./PhD in English lit and I'm still toying around what I want my emphasis to be.

Favorite novels: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathon Safran Foer, The House of Fame by Geoffrey Chaucer

Favorite novella: Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

Favorite Y.A. lit: Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, The Hunger Games by Suzzane Collins

Favorite plays [written, not performed]: All My Sons by Arthur Miller, Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

Favorite short stories: Roman Fever by Edith Wharton, Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Heminway, Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman, The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James

Favorite poem: Men at Forty by Donald Justice

Favorite piece of music: Anything jazz--I love John Coltrane. Beyond that, I listen to a lot of acoustic work, oldies [Elvis, Frankie Valli, etc.], women's folkish [Ani DiFranco, Dar Williams, Tracey Chapman], some top 40...basically anything that takes talent.

Favorite work of art: I think Turner is a master, so anything he's done I typically love--you must go see his work in person in London if you want any sense of his talent. My favorite artist, however, is René Magritte, a surrealist from Belgium who painted at the same time as a lot of my favorite writers. Some of his best work is at the Tate Modern in London as well as some lesser known paintings at the Art Institute in Chicago.



"And, above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the must unlikely places"
-Roald Dahl
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booksdirect: “Just in case things get boring, I’m bringing a book.”

booksdirect:

“Just in case things get boring, I’m bringing a book.”

(Source: abookwormthing, via hungry-for-books)

(Source: roomforwonder)

Dream life. A life on the road.

Dream life. A life on the road.

(Source: team-kbitch.livejournal.com, via gowithyourself)

"And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, with a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotus-lands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven. I could hear an indescribable seething roar which wasn’t in my ear but everywhere and had nothing to do with sounds. I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn’t remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it." Jack Kerouac, On the Road (via themooreeffoc)

(via ziggaystardust)

Fan made poster | ON THE ROAD


I want this poster.

(via keep-eyes-open)

(Source: lumpymomoprincess)

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple." Jack Kerouac (via candidcouture)
isolateflecks: TypewritersSmith Journal

isolateflecks:

Typewriters
Smith Journal

Someone asking me about Jack Kerouac...
Dad: What are you reading?
Me: On the Road
Dad: Why are you reading that? Isn't Jack Kerouac pretty bizarre?
Me: ....
Dad: ....
Me: ....
Dad: ....
Me: The only ones that interest me are the mad ones.
lestercorp: On The Road SAM.

lestercorp:

On The Road

SAM.

pardalo-katsiki: “Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk- real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.” JACK.

pardalo-katsiki:

“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk- real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”

JACK.

attheasylum: ‘On The Road’ No. Fuggin. Way. I cannot wait for this shit.

attheasylum:

‘On The Road’


No. Fuggin. Way. I cannot wait for this shit.

sarah-zidan: Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg at Jack Kerouac’s grave Wouldn’t you have loved to be a fly on the wall?

sarah-zidan:

Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg at Jack Kerouac’s grave

Wouldn’t you have loved to be a fly on the wall?

alexturnerspompadour:

i’m writing an extended essay/literary analysis on howl by allen ginsberg and this is a poem that means so much to me and i’ve worked so hard on this essay and i told my mom to read the poem so that she could then understand what my essay was about

and she just handed to poem back to me and said ‘this just sounds like some insane person who’s against an organized society’

it’s amazing how closed-minded she is and wow i feel like i’m about to fucking cry

I’m with you in Rockland, love. My parents feel the exact same way. I’m with you in Rockland.