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from the introduction to emily wilsons translation of the iliad

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A little story about ghosts, and roommates, and getting to know each other.

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crocheting 1960s doilies as a way of grieving

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bruh

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I will be honest guys, the Red portrait of king Charles is gorgeous asdfghjkl

it's a bad portrait. Like. Objectively. It does the opposite of what's intended. It looks like the painter is insulting him. If it was in a contemporary gallery with no context you would see it immediately as the ambivalent criticism of Charles's reign, how he fades into the overwhelming red background as a tiny little figure, small and insignificant, insufficient for the clothes he's wearing. It reminds my of Goya's portraits, how they were so 'realistic' that they ended up making these great figures look pathetic to the viewer. So these are our rulers?

the sheer novelty. the surprise and shock, the kinda cunt it's serving for no reason. I. I love it. It's an incredible portrait by Jonathan Yeo. By the sheer fact that Charles, the man, is impossible to portray as greater than man because he's just such a nothingburger of a dude. So a portrait made to make him look huge and interesting made him be swallowed in red brushstrokes. The butterfly, that reminded me immediately of " we will all laugh at guilded butterflies", draws more attention than him. It looks like an omen. It looks like a warning in all this red. Something is not right here.

This is the best royal portrait ever 10/10

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The Dogs, Noah Ross

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Evasion - Joaquín Ureña , 2018.

Catalan, b. 1946 -

Watercolour on paper , 100 x 100 cm.

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

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James Sant, "Courage, Anxiety and Despair: Watching the Battle", ca. 1850

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Mary Ruefle, on poem endings, from Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

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the brothers karamazov, fyodor dostoyevsky

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The Dogs, Noah Ross

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Bread with Tomato - Marcos Cárdenas , 2023.

Catalan , b. 1973 -

Oil on wood , 60 x 60 cm.

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The Dogs, Noah Ross

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