INTERTIDAL

someone tell keira knightley i got it from here

newyorker:

At the Institut Villa Pierrefeu, students learn how to clean marble, address a dowager duchess, and serve a luncheon. They attend lectures devoted to the customs of twenty countries. In a ninety-minute class on Nigeria taught by a Cordon Bleu-trained Canadian chef turned etiquette coach, I learned that, at a formal dinner in Lagos, appropriate topics of conversation include Benin bronzes and the local film industry. 

Read the full story, “Lessons from the Last Swiss Finishing School,” here. 

(via sinnamonkweeen)

violentwavesofemotion:

when simone de beauvoir said “i’m reliving it, neutralizing it, and transforming it into an inoffensive past that i can keep in my heart without either disowning it or suffering from it. that’s not easy. it’s at once painful and poetic.”

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