it so funny how hannibal embodies the ideals of romanticism so thoroughly; he lives in pursuit of beauty, sublimity, and intensity, finds grandeur in art, death, and sensation, yet for so long his actual understanding of love was theoretical 😭
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hedonism yes; aesthetic devotion yes; but actual romantic love was foreign to him until will. someone so versed in the language of the romantics only truly joined their ranks once he fell in love suddenly living out the very keatsian transformation he’d admired in theory like omg
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i would have crashed out too because why am i suddenly living in werther levels of romantic agony….
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