I laughed out loud many times reading the book, its comedic value is either underrated or unconsidered in many reviews and discussion around it.
Bunny honestly seems like a good hang funny lil nigga
Has anyone ever participated in a bacchanal?
Is this actually worth reading or do foids just like it cos le 'dark academia aestheticz'
>>25271894It’s a good read for the suspense, mystery and solid characters.
>>25271656On yon shores, "The Secret History," in all of it's volume of chapters and secrets, abide my old soaks Charles, Henry, Dickey, and chum of yore Edmund "Bunny" Corcoran, the WASP extraordinaire who died that chilled evening, and also the delicate flower Camilla; how I bid them farewell, and pine for these lads and lasses, who I studied with at Hampton University; for it's been many years hence. Alas, adieu.
>>25271656>>25271708>Bunny's based on a real life character that mogged Donna at uniThe Professor noping out for Gulf State Oil Sheik bux and being more angry at being involved tangentially is supremely Boomer (whom would never believe his larping students actually experienced atavistic ekstasis). Bunny getting killed for bantz and truly not knowing or suspecting the ugly truth, while these retards tied themselves up on felonious knots is pretty perverse/10.
>>25271656Bunny is insanely funny and so much better characterized than everyone else that it's almost bizarre he's in the same novel as Henry, who is the cartoon version of a smart person. It's such a weird mismatch. Someone should have unironically told Donna to rewrite the book as a comedy about the autistic adventures of Bunny.
“Anything Bunny wrote was bound to be alarmingly original, since he began with such odd working materials and managed to alter them further by his befuddled scrutiny, but the John Donne paper must have been the worst of all the bad papers he ever wrote (ironic, given that it was the only thing he ever wrote that saw print. After he disappeared, a journalist asked for an excerpt from the missing young scholar's work and Marion gave him a copy of it, a laboriously edited paragraph of which eventually found its way into People magazine).Somewhere, Bunny had heard that John Donne had been acquainted with Izaak Walton, and in some dim corridor of his mind this friendship grew larger and larger, until in his mind the two men were practically interchangeable. We never understood how this fatal connection had established itself: Henry blamed it on Men of Thought and Deed, but no one knew for sure. A week or two before the paper was due, he had started showing up in my room about two or three in the morning, looking as if he had just narrowly escaped some natural disaster, his tie askew and his eyes wild and rolling. 'Hello, hello,' he would say, stepping in, running both hands through his disordered hair. 'Hope I didn't wake you, don't mind if I cut on the lights, do you, ah, here we go, yes, yes…' He would turn on the lights and then pace back and forth for a while without taking off his coat, hands clasped behind his back, shaking his head. Finally he would stop dead in his tracks and say, with a desperate look in his eye: 'Metahemeralism.Tell me about it. Everything you know. I gotta know something about metahemeralism.''I'm sorry. I don't know what that is.''I don't either,' Bunny would say brokenly. 'Got to do with art or pastoralism or something. That's how I gotta tie together John Donne and Izaak Walton, see.' He would resume pacing.'Donne. Walton. Metahemeralism. That's the problem as I see it.''Bunny, I don't think "metahemeralism" is even a word.''Sure it is. Comes from the Latin. Has to do with irony and the pastoral. Yeah. That's it. Painting or sculpture or something, maybe.''Is it in the dictionary?''Dunno. Don't know how to spell it. I mean' – he made a picture frame with his hands – 'the poet and the fisherman. Parfait. Boon companions. Out in the open spaces. Living the good life. Metahemeralism's gotta be the glue here, see?'And so it would go, for sometimes half an hour or more, with Bunny raving about fishing, and sonnets, and heaven knew what, until in the middle of his monologue he would be struck by a brilliant thought and bluster off as suddenly as he had descended.
>>25272722He finished the paper four days before the deadline and ran around showing it to everyone before he turned it in.'This is a nice paper, Bun -,' Charles said cautiously.'Thanks, thanks.''But don't you think you ought to mention John Donne more often? Wasn't that your assignment?''Oh, Donne,' Bunny had said scoffingly. 'I don't want to drag him into this.'Henry refused to read it. 'I'm sure it's over my head, Bunny, really,' he said, glancing over the first page. 'Say, what's wrong with this type?''Triple-spaced it,' said Bunny proudly.'These lines are about an inch apart.''Looks kind of like free verse, doesn't it?'Henry made a funny little snorting noise through his nose.'Looks kind of like a menu,' he said.All I remember about the paper was that it ended with the sentence 'And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.' We wondered if he would fail.”
>>25272722>>25272725The entire book should have been just this for 200 or 300 pages. How can you strike gold this pure and not realize it?
>>25272725>Writes the most beautifully autistic character she has come up with in her entire career >"Erm ackshually, you are not supposed to like him, chud" Tart really is a hack.
>>25271656I only recognise one 'Secret History'.
The whole book was good except when they all go to the Corcoran's house for the funeral, not sure why but I just wanted them to go back to the uniAnyone recommend The Goldfinch?
I read it a couple of years ago, remember parts of the book and I really liked it, but I remember this part >>25272722 as it was yesterday.
>>25272725>those famous chums of yore
>>25272722>Somewhere, Bunny had heard that John Donne had been acquainted with Izaak Walton, Unironically, the fact that, apparently, according to google, Donne and Walton were indeed close friends and Walton wrote Donne biography is meant to show that Richard is a pseud retard and Bunny isn't as dumb as the group thinks, right?
>>25271850I am desperately in search of this in real life. I think im getting close but it’s hard to say
>>25272746It’s called exoteric writing, chum
I find how Julian is treated in the book very interesting. Only the first lesson Richard take is described, and you might be inclined to think that he will be the main force in the book, manipulating them, seeing how he demands full exclusivity of his classes, but then he remains at the margins, outside the main scene, for the whole book; you are only compelled to think about him when he disappears, with Richard's own brief reflections.
I'm a Judy Poovey head. She's always there to help Richard leave the sublime and go back into the phenomenal world.
Goldfinch was so bad and bloated I refuse to read any of her other work
>>25273784I think he was intended to be central to the plot and Tart got cold feet. I can't remember what she said but she mentioned in a Charlie Rose interview that she was surprised by what one of the characters did, because it wasn't what she had originally planned.
>>25272453This book invented "Dark Academia," and it's the best in the genre.
>>25271656I couldn't get past the first chapter because of the twee writing style, Maybe I should give it another gol
