the anti-heroine of an era of bathtub gin, organized crime, and jazz, clouded in the smoke of fired guns and cigarettes.
‘The Roman genius, and perhaps the Roman flaw,’ he said, ‘was an obsession with order. One sees it in their architecture, their literature, their laws ―this fierce denial of darkness, unreason and chaos.’

— The Secret History, Donna Tartt


@темы: with serpents for arms the lovers are the hydra of the tale