Okay, like I know I'm the only one who cares about this.

[xp_wildchild]

https://lithub.com/apparently-the-brontes-all-died-so-early-because-they-spent-their-lives-drinking-graveyard-water/

But the fact that all the Brontes basically grew up drinking corpse water explains SO FUCKING MUCH.

This message brought to you by a really fucking tired Kyle who has a three week gig teaching gig for a 10th grade lit class and I'm 4 days in and I want to die I'm going to throw myself out the window

ima disrupt the lesson plans and talk about how Wuthering Heights is the way it is because Emily Bronte was drinking corpse water.

Comments

[xp_daredevil]

that's amazing. and terrifying.

and honestly explains so much about Charles Darwin, too.

[xp_darcy]

mm, peak gothic.

you aren't teaching that shitty f scott fitzgerald novel, are you? if it's on the list just skip it.

[xp_loa]

Kyle, the English were just like that, drinking their dirty corpse water. Would you truly talk of the disenfranchised like that?

[xp_colossus]

Can I interest you in Russian lit? It, too, is long and depressing.

[xp_jubilee]

Someone had to drink the corpse water.

[xp_phoenix]

In my medical opinion...yep. Drinking corpse water is very bad.