“Even before the letter he'd been divided: one part of him swanning with Jay Gatsby around an imaginary Gotham; the other part stolid and earthbound, nose to the deep fryer, in the stifling, sizzling South.” New York CityBatmanCity On FireGarth Risk HallbergThe Great GatsbyGothamJay GatsbyAllusions Book:City on Fire Source: City on Fire
“Literature is the original Internet – every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind.” MindLiteratureInternetFootnotesTextCitationsHyperlinksAllusions Author:Maria Popova
“I deplored silence. I deplored stillness. I hated almost everything. I was very unhappy and angry all the time. I tried to control myself, and that only made me more awkward, unhappier, and angrier. I was like Joan of Arc, or Hamlet, but born into the wrong life—the life of a nobody, a waif, invisible. There's no better way to say it: I was not myself back then. I was someone else. I was Eileen.” IdentityAngryMiserableOverlookedOttessa MoshfeghEileenDisaffectedAllusions Book:Eileen Source: Eileen