This Very Morning, My History Professor Picked Up The Book I Was Reading, Looked Me In The Eye, And Said

Hi! I'm going to be in London visiting family at the end of June for a week and was wondering if you had any cool recommendations (museums, bookstores, etc.) I've already seen all the main parts of London like Buckingham Palace and Big Ben and the London Eye, but I want to see if I can find any cool hidden gems :)

hi, hello, hi -- london is soooo massive there's no end to the things to see... these aren't hidden gems but they're a bit different from central, the west end and all that, a bit more like places where people who live in london go

columbia road flower market

broadway market

brick lane

peckham rye lane

brixton village

borough market

galleries

peer

maureen paley

whitechapel gallery

raven row

south london gallery

across these spots you will find fab cafes, food and bookshops like brick lane books, libreria books, books peckham, bookmongers, round table books and so on.

current favourite words:

• esoteric: likely to be understood or enjoyed by only a few people with a special knowledge or interest

• hubris (greek tragedy): excessive pride towards or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis

• trepidation: great worry or fear about something unpleasant that may happen

• hedonistic: based on the belief that pleasure is the most important thing in life

• decadence: moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury

• writhe: respond with great emotional or physical discomfort to (a violent or unpleasant feeling or thought)

• acerbic: (of a person or what they say) critical in a direct and rather cruel way

• sanguine: blood red

lots of credit to @historiansecrets

A Pretty Little Message to Myself

A boy with eyes like glass jars swishing with waves of the blue abyss,

I wrote my pretty little poems

about a pretty little boy with starlight eyes,

moonshine hair.

The lives I regret to wish

that I had lived,

The girls.

Belgium, Switzerland.

French and Italian and American

Geneva, Brussels.

I try to say my life has changed;

Never the pretty little boy

with the odd Swiss accent,

and the lopsided smile,

and the shy, wry, understated wit.

Never again.

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Ahem, I may or may not have read far too many novels recently. How do I know this? I have now developed a slight crush on my academic rival in school. Goodness.

Factual

She wants to learn 75 languages

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“ ..The sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.. ”

- Virginia Woolf “To the Lighthouse” 1927

subject aesthetics masterpost

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psychology

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other

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european studies

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postcolonial studies

social work

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marketing

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medieval studies

viking studies

psycholinguistics

indian classical students

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game design

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