I Love My Erratic And Enigmatic Henry Winter

Today I discovered that a couple of TSH characters were based on actual people Donna Tartt knew at Bennington College- amongst them were students Todd O'Neal and Matt Jacobsen, who were the inspiration for Henry and Bunny respectively.

AND JUST—

There's even their own comments about it and it's so funny wait:

Here's the source

It's all about the smallest things. The smell of coffee and the warm feeling, when the sunshine touches your skin while it's freezing. Simple.

The urge to learn every language and play every instrument and travel the world and live through every historical time period and be a writer and a poet and an actor and

Martín Rico y Ortega (Spanish, 1833-1908)

Ca’ Rezzonico, Venezia

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

Herakles, Euripides (tr. Tom Sleigh)

when Charles Bukowski wrote— “ i often carry things to read / so that i will not have to look at / the people. ” i felt that.

To be human.

The coolness of hate turning warm under a tender touch.

Salty tears watering a dried up husk, soft hands soothing aching eyes.

Heart held devotion and tired bitter lies.

Life so fleeting, as swift as a bird. Moments that ground us to roots of this earth.

To be human is run fast and fall, but never to give up and to always laugh at that dizzying gall.

If I had wings I'd learn to swim, for this life is a cliffegde and I won't jump on a whim.

nothing, null, hollow, hole

Happy End of Finals Week and the Semester to those celebrating!