butiambatman

[butiambatman]

"Yet did I love thee to the last As fervently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now. The love where Death has set his seal, Nor age can chill, nor rival steal, Nor falsehood disavow: And, what were worse, thou canst not see Or wrong, or change, or fault in me." - Lord Byron, "And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair"

#and thou art dead as young and fair #lord byron #literature #quote #feral for this poem specifically #the romantics #romanticism

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i know the development of the contrapposto was an important turning point in the history of greek art and i agree it's sexy as hell but there's something about a kouros that really speaks to me. i love me a classical statue but a kouros is just so cunty. the stiff posture, the archaic smile. and that one little foot forward? girl you shouldn't have.

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a fun fact about me is that i have never been normal about anything i've ever loved and i need to smoke the oresteia right the fuck now. i want it in my literal lungs. i want it to burn.

#the orestia #orestes #honourable mentions go to the roman shakespeare plays and dune and dune messiah #if i could snort titus andronicus i would #tagamemnon #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra

[butiambatman]

virginia woolf's the waves is really like: jinny can conceive the world around her only in relation her own physical appearance; bernard is forever chasing the most exquisite turn of phrase for his stories; susan wants nothing more than to escape the city for the countryside; louis is an outsider constantly looking for acceptance; rhoda's anxiety and depression lead her to reject humanity and embrace solitude; neville is a fag

[butiambatman]

Is this anything: a Regency adaptation of Fast & Furious

[butiambatman]

"Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit."

Happy Birthday, Vincent.

#vincent van gogh #its vincents birthday #quote #art #painting #impressionism #post impressionism

[butiambatman]

"Should this be the end of the story? a kind of sigh? a last ripple of the wave? A trickle of water in some gutter where, burbling, it dies away? Let me touch the table--so--and thus recover my sense of the moment." - Virginia Woolf, The Waves

#literature #academia #quote #virginia woolf #the waves #books #modernism

[butiambatman]

I would ask what kinda straight up crack Hans Zimmer put in the Dune soundtracks if I didn't know for a fact it was pure CHOAM grade spice melange.

#dune #dune part 2 #dune soundtrack #hans zimmer #the way that i have lisan al gaib on repeat #duneposting #spice melange

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"They don't understand that you can really love words—beautiful sounds. And thoughts. Love them awfully, as if they were alive. As if they were people." - May Sinclair, Mary Olivier: a Life

#literature #academia #quote #may sinclair #mary Olivier a life #she gets me #modernism #modernist literature

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I'm reading Elektra, The Brothers Karamazov, and Finnegan's Wake simultaneously.

Read: I'm losing my mind, going insane etc. etc.

#literature #god i love this book #classics #classic literature #james joyce #fyodor dostoevsky #sophocles #elektra #the brothers karamazov #finnegans wake #im literally losing my mind

[butiambatman]

"I love you as one loves certain obscure things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.” - Pablo Neruda, "One Hundred Love Sonnets: Sonnet XVII”, trans. Mark Eisner

#literature #quote #pablo neruda #sonnet xvii #sonnet 17

[butiambatman]

academic bias is so funny because you’ll be reading about the same historical event and one person is like “Despite the troubles that befell his homeland and near constant criticism of the court King Blorbo remained strong in the face of adversity” and the other one is like “after letting his people carry the brunt of his cringefail decisions Blorbo the Shitface refused to listen to any reason and continued to be a warmongering piece of shit. Also he was ugly.”

[butiambatman]

"problem plays" this "romances" that I'm proposing new and exciting Shakespearean Play Groupings for your amusement!

The Bad Dad Triad: King Lear, Henry IV Part 1, Romeo and Juliet

The "My Wife's A Floozy" Trifecta: Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, the Winter's Tale

The "Me And My Shitty Little Minion Are About To Fuck Up Your Shit Hardcore" Trilogy: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, the Tempest

The Falstaffiad: Henry IV part 1, Henry IV part 2, The Merry Wives of Windsor

The "Holy Fuck There's Two of 'Em" Saga: Twelfth Night, the Comedy of Errors

The "Dear Diary My Homoerotic Bullshit Has A Body Count Now" Series: Richard II, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus

The "Why Are The Fucking Trees Trying To Kill Me. Hate This Shit" Trilogy: Macbeth, the Winter's Tale, As You Like It

[butiambatman]

say what you will about Dante, but from the moment he sees Beatrice again, he quite literally cannot look away nor will he to the point of going blind or turning to ash

#the divine comedy #purgatorio #paradiso #literature #academia #god i love this book #classic literature #dante #dante alighieri #beloved beatrice

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Some of you don't have any kleos and it is honestly embarrassing. Not me though. I'm absolutely endowed with kleos and it is scaring people. I'm about to be remembered in glory forever. So sorry to those who lack kleos i genuinely can't relate.

#tagamemnon #queueusque tandem abutere catilina patientia nostra #kleos #I know that i have immortal glory #it was revealed to me #sucks for those who dont #classics #ancient greece

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"stabilité" in French just sounds like "stab-ility" in English as in the quality of stabbing, or perhaps the quality of being stabbed which is just lovely.

#stability #stabbing #im in a shakespeare binge #shakespeare #french