#rene girard gazing intently at this post

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i love you foils i love you gothic doubles i love you clones i love you alter egos i love you twins and false identities and shadow selves and reflections and ghosts and eidola and puppets and masks and

#[SNIPED BY RENE GIRARD BEFORE I CAN ADD ANYTHING ELSE TO THIS LIST] #rene girard gazing intently at this post #beeps

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guy who forgets the word prophylactic and so uses the word apotropaic instead

#apotropaic antihistamines are real to ME #rene girard gazing intently at this post #beeps

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emily wilson, introduction to the iliad

#rene girard gazing intently at this post #<- who said that #wiliad #beeps

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library situation this morning. two readers requested to see the same item on the same day -> clearly the solution is that they should fight to the death about it -> but they also have the same surname -> rene girard will be spectating their fight to the death -> they also have the same address and are probably like. married -> fight to the death cancelled. [sir john franklin voice] All Well. -> what if they’re like. married but they hate one another and have requested the same item for evil mimetic competition reasons -> fight to the death is back on???

#libraryposting #rene girard gazing intently at this post #beeps

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the death of romulus is so funny like either he got physically torn to shreds by the senate because they hated him so much OR there was a simultaneous thunderstorm and eclipse and he got deified. and we just don’t know which!

#florus #also i think this is in other sources also? livy? idk #bonus point for. I Wonder Who Else This Could Remind People Of (spectral presence of gaius julius caesar vibrating evilly in the background) #also #rene girard gazing intently at this post #beeps

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i love you ritual substitution i love you cannibalism subtext i love you fucked up commensality rituals i love you the attribution of guilt that henceforth passes for 'true' differing in no way from those attributions that will henceforth be regarded as 'false' except that in the case of the 'true' guilt no voice is raised to protest any aspect of the charge i love you hand theory i love you the triangle of the altar the table and the grave i love you the old pattern of each against another giving way to the unified antagonism of all against one

#heaven official's liveblogging #tgcfposting #<- me when i watch telly vision and think about robert icke's oresteia and explode and die #rene girard gazing intently at this post #beeps

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triplicitous should be a word. with your help it can be

#rene girard gazing intently at this post #beeps

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mimetic triangle where there are only two guys but contained within that are enough guys to make several triangles vs mimetic triangle where there are two guys and then another guy and then also another guy. but it’s still triangle

#or: sacrificial crisis getting condensed into a rivalry of two -> sacrifice of one #vs rivalry between two becoming. you could say contagious. and spreading outwards dragging more people into more and more triangles #rene girard gazing intently at this post #beeps

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guys will see the word imitative and go teehee

#rene girard gazing intently at this post #sorry i just saw the word imitative so now i have to stay awake forever thinking about triangles #beeps

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rene girard would say the eponymous old maid is like a sacred king both holy and accursed and the card game is a ritual that re-enacts the randomised and so unavengeable spontaneous violence of her murder. or something

#rene girard gazing intently at this post #beeps

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sacrificed to the narrative vs narrative as sacrifice

#thinking about the apologoi #terminal storytelling #rene girard gazing intently at this post #beeps

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really fun predictive text attempt at a tag on the last reblog:

rene girard gazing intently into his own eyes

#rene girard gazing intently at this post #beeps

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when there’s two of something…………

MORAL: There was a Civil War

#THERE WAS ALSO A SEWER MAN BTW!!!!!! #it was gaius marius. #pharsalia #rene girard gazing intently at this post #beeps

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i never finished season 4 but black sails should have done more with the plague plotline. for me

#similarly wrt the terror. i wish scurvy could be contagious #rene girard gazing intently at this post #<- who said that #beeps

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slaps roof of catullus 51 this triangle bad boy can fit so many metaphorics of translation in it

#rene girard gazing intently at this post #<- don’t even worry about that #actually no i should do a cut-out translation of cat51 using text from violence and the sacred. that would be funny #beeps