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Lo, lit! Ah.

26 Monday Jun 2017

Posted by Betty Zhang in Notes

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books, english, english literature, lit, literature, writer, writing

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Literature about literature

Literature about literature about literature

Lit of my life, fire of my lores!

My thing, my thought.

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Meatier than wursts: big long German words

19 Sunday Mar 2017

Posted by Betty Zhang in Beauty

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book, education, english, german, high school, language, learning, literature, prose, sociology, university, words, writer, writing

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Linear, Germanic, and impressively gothic in appearance (it’s the ä, the scher and the unfamiliar arrangement of familiar alphabets), the italicised word at the bottom of the page enticed and incited in me what can only be described as a rush of desire accompanied by the urge to gratify it, like a neon sign that blinked Continue reading →

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Youth

02 Thursday Feb 2017

Posted by Betty Zhang in Opinion, Petit Passages

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change, empowerment, english, inspiration, literature, Opinion, poem, poet, prose, writer, writing, youth

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Youth is vitality, excess collagen, fluids and oil from our pores. Our restlessness feels edgeless like the galaxy, scary and exciting like exploding stars, new like unopened books.

Youth is arrogance—we act as if we invented sex, and mock the old for their weary bones. But they were once young like us and was it not from them you and I and our parents sprang?

Youth is rage, against our predecessors’ norms, against our parents’ wishes, against the preachers and teachers who know not what it is to be young today no more than theirs did, against our own better judgement.

Youth is power: it is power harnessed from our vitality, arrogance, and rage. We can change the future because it is ours—because, if not us, who?

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Dreich

23 Friday Dec 2016

Posted by Betty Zhang in Notes

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english, feelings, gif, language, mood, nature, rain, sad, scottish, writer, writing

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All doom & gloom makes for a glum girl.

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