Black Swan | Vogue Korea 2016.09.06

Charles Macaulay

The secret history

shoutout to my favorite coping mechanism, isolation

every day i wonder why i'm not living in a dark castle with secret passageways and rooms filled with books

La Seu Vella, Lleida, Catalonia. Photos by Adeline Gressin

Birds born in cages

Believe freedom is a crime

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

- William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘭𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘺

chaotic academia is [writes on hand] [ink on ankles] [ink on elbows] [ink on neck] [urge to buy white flowy dresses] [writing unfinished poems] [making a big deal of birthdays] [writing prose and poetry for friends] [forgetting mundane schoolwork] [researching something niche] [reading old queer love letters] [editing a friend's book] [wishing for love] [shouting into the void silently] [reading incessantly]

“Quiet, yet wild. Rough, and yet gentle,”

— Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “Child,”