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James Whistler (American, 1834-1903) - Nocturne in Black and Gold - The Falling Rocket - c.1875

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Guy who only knows thomas paine from his stay-making career in 1792: hey honey they're having to try the guy who made your bra for sedition and treason in absentia after he fled the country to avoid arrest

#can't wait to bring this up the next time my store sells a copy of common sense (more often than you think) #me trying to sell books to an old guy obsessed with the revolution: yeah did you know mr paine was a staymaker? real lingerie head tbh

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i love when you see a professor at your undergrad cited in something and you have to be like oh right that man was not just a meme for the amusement of my personal circle of friends he is actually a really important scholar of early hellenic judaism. or whatever

#too niche? #i'm copyediting for a classics guy in canada and jumpscare! [redacted] who i suffered through an awkward dinner/lecture with as a 19yo #is in the bibliography #love these little moments of interconnectedness though fr fr #i think also at rosh hashanah one year my friend ended up in this guy's hotel room (for totally innocent reasons)???? unless that was #the other memeable professor of jewish thought (he was transporting a torah for our services. idk.) #rare pic of me in the wild

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“stoned at the nail salon” no actually lorde i’m reading the paris review interview with helen vendler at the nail salon being high would impede my understanding of her thought

#first pedicure of the season #NOT like the other girls moment #rare pic of me in the wild

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what’s that spice they put in tam tam crackers that makes them so popping

#niche passover snack posting #a joke for me #yesterday a 75yo was berating me for enjoying tam tams and like im sorry im not a child but they are delicious #rare pic of me in the wild

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Abel Tournissoux (French, b. 1994, Mâcon, France, based Brussels, Belgium) - Soyez Maudits (Be Damned)! (+ detail), 2023, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

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found out a very respected independent library still uses AACR2 for their cataloging standard. which. well let’s just say they no longer teach that one in library school

#iykyk #rare pic of me in the wild

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just found out it’s national pretzel day and all the pretzel stores in town are giving out free pretzels but it’s passover and i cannot get one so this is an act of antisemitism against me specifically

#i’m joking but also not #i love soft pretzels you guys don’t even know #rare pic of me in the wild

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Kirsten Valentine, Untitled (Love Handle), 2019

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THEY LITERALLY HANG THEM UP TO DRY IN CRYING OH MY GOD

#i am really really hormonal right now and have not previously had any love for sloths but i burst into tears watching this

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The best thing about Gettysburg, or at least the thing I miss most now that nobody pays me to go to Gettysburg anymore, is that the Male Loneliness Epidemic simply does not exist there. It is a place where middle aged men go with their friends, or to make new friends. I can see a gaggle of millennial men and know instantly that these guys love their pals almost as much as they love multiracial democracy and the traditionally feminine hobby of historical costuming. Men are out in the fresh air. They are touching so much grass. I once overheard a conversation between two guys buying an antique rifle that was as full of emotional connection as anything I’ve ever heard two men of that age group say.

#this is so moving to me as a woman who sells civil war books to these guys all day

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it's strooping absolute wafel

#sometime i say this to my dog (legal name stroopwafel known to his friends and comrades as waffle) and my mother still does not understand #but he is! he's strooping absolute wafel!!! i cannot say it any more clearly than that! #sometimes also i call him monsieur le waff. this my mother also does not understand

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I never met the great poetry critic Helen Vendler, who died yesterday, but she was my mother’s teacher and therefore one of mine; something she kindly said to my mother in a time of personal crisis gets quoted in our house all the time and has helped me in crises of my own. I am sad that the world is now a little less smart and a little less kind but as an academic friend said, if she had to die, at least she fittingly went on Shakespeare’s birth/death day

#mini obituary time I guess #rare pic of me in the wild

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made it through another seder at my parents’ and only cried twice this is Fine

#have been doing better on the illness front but not tonight! so I cried about that #and also once while chopping onions duh #rare pic of me in the wild

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THE WHEEL OF TIME | Moiraine in 2x06 "Eyes Without Pity"

#babygirl of all time

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[image description: the bugs bunny in a tuxedo "I wish all a very pleasant evening" meme edited to say "I wish all of my Jewish followers a very pleasant passover". Next to bugs is a photo of a small stack of matzo and the cup of Elijah. ]

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seder was such a mess you guys… i ended up crying in public while reading aloud a bit about “you shall not oppress the stranger in your land” and then my grandfather tripped while helping to clear the table and seems to have bruised his chest pretty bad and i am very worried about my grandmother on the other side’s mental decline it was all Not Good

#on the bright side nobody got in a fight about i/p! #i am now at home and pretty drained #my grandpop should be fine but if you’ll be in shul tomorrow and could say a misheberach he’s kalman ben chaim #do i even have religious tumblr followers well who knows can’t hurt #rare pic of me in the wild