paramaline

“When Shelley’s corpse washed ashore, a friend identified it by a copy of Keats’s 1820 volume in the coat pocket, which he knew Shelley had taken with him. Then, after cremation in which Shelley’s heart, hardened by calcium, did not burn, this same friend snatched it from the embers and presented it to Mary Shelley, who kept it thereafter in her desk, wrapped in a copy of ‘Adonais.”

raecupcake

Here’s your morbid literary fact of the day.

voidbat

jesus christ, i will never be this goth.

Mary ShelleyoH

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    friends will help you move, real friends will snatch a calcified heart from the cremation embers for you
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