bunny corcoran was his name, bunny being somehow short for edmund.
bunny corcoran was his name, bunny being somehow short for edmund.
I felt things would doubtless continue in this depressing vein as far as I could foresee. ― donna tartt, the secret history
francis: there are such things as ghosts. people everywhere have always known that. and we believe in them every bit as much as homer did. only now, we call them by different names. memory. the unconscious.
camilla: do you mind if we change the subject? please?
It was dark and I couldn’t see a thing. My fingers finally closed on the door handle and only then, as I was climbing out of the car, the moon came out from behind a cloud and I saw the house. It was tremendous. I saw, in sharp, ink-black silhouette against the sky, turrets and pikes, a widow’s walk.
The house was their trump card, their fondest treasure, and that weekend they revealed it to me slyly, by degrees—the dizzy little turret rooms, the high-beamed attic, the old sleigh in the cellar, big enough to be pulled by four horses, astring with bells.
I hope you’ll excuse me, he said, but I’m late for an appointment
The smaller of the two—but not by much—was a sloppy blond boy, rosy-cheeked and gum-chewing, with a relentlessly cheery demeanor and his fists thrust deep in the pockets of his knee-sprung trousers. He wore the same jacket every day, a shapeless brown tweed that was frayed at the elbows and short in the sleeves, and his sandy hair was parted on the left, so a long forelock fell over one bespectacled eye. Bunny Corcoran was his name…
tsh fancasts (1/?)
↳ michael pitt as edmund “ bunny “ corcoran“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.”
the secret history characters as modern greek godscamilla macaulay as artemis, goddess of the hunt
charles macaulay as apollo, god of prophecy and music
richard papen as asklepios, god of medicine
henry winter as hades, king of the underworld
francis abernathy as eros, god of love and desire
bunny corcoran as dionysus, god of wine
bonus: judy poovey as aphrodite, goddess of beauty and pleasure