‘By the time you see this announcement,’ he says, ‘I will be dead.’ He goes on to say that it wasn’t a career in law enforcement that killed him but two packs of cigarettes a day. I saw this at about three o'clock in the morning, alone in my apartment, on a black-and-white set with lots of interference. White noise and snow. He seemed to be speaking directly at me, right out of the television set. For a moment I was disoriented, seized by panic; could a ghost embody itself through wavelengths, electronic dots, a picture tube? What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?’ - The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- a statue gripping another’s hand
- an old mansion with a winding drive
- the “beauty is terror” or “redistribution of matter” quote
- some form of skull
- cigarettes (lucky strike) and alcohol
- probably teacups
- a stag or a hind, still alive at this point maybe
- books, most likely to be in greek
- a pair of glasses, perhaps resting on the above books
- blood-covered hands
- boys in expensive suits
- a red-headed boy, often faceless
the secret history edit: relationships [2/5]
↳ Henry Winter and Bunny Corcoran
‘They don’t care for each other do they?’