aut inveniam verbum aut faciam

M., 90s kid, an Egyptian nine hours dead who was by good appliance recovered. I like poetry, long walks on the beach, and poking dead things with a stick.

[achillessulks]

In defence of Emily Wilson

[My modest collection of Homer translations; Wilson’s Odyssey is second from right.] Emily Wilson is the second woman to translate the Iliad

People have been very mean to Emily Wilson online lately. I’ve been on record as saying her translation of the Odyssey (or Iliad) wasn’t my favourite, but do I agree with the accusations of oversimplification or inaccuracy? (Spoiler alert: no.)

[jinxysmidcentury]

Marimekko poppies, 1960s

[aaaaaarchive]

[sliversoakley4]

[batarde]

“…It is decided—we are both playing, and moreover: we play differently: you—honestly, I—cheating. But, for all my dishonest play, I will be the one who plays to the death…”

— Marina Tsvetaeva, from a fragment featured in “A Russian Psyche: The Poetic Mind of Marina Tsvetaeva” (via kitduckworth)

[benitasroom]

The Ten Largest, No. 8, Adulthood (1907), Hilma af Klint

[random-brushstrokes]

Hilma af Klint - Svanen (1914)

[ec-phrasis]

Hilma af Klint, Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 1, 1915

[chthonic-cassandra]

“What distinguishes sadism from aggression is the sadist’s intense identification with his victim. Sadism is the form that aggression takes when it is fleeing its doom. […] Sadism is the joy of avoiding victimhood, though that puts it too passively. Sadism is the joy of having taken control of the experience of victimhood by inflicting it on another.”

— C. Fred Alford, What Evil Means to Us

[funeral]

D.W. Winnicott, "The Use of An Object and Relating Through Identifications"

[photoarchive]

Lindokuhle Sobekwa, Khumalo street where accident happened. South Africa, Johannesburg, Thokoza, 2023

[real-language-facts]

couples costume idea: signifier and signified

[lifeinpoetry]

“When I’d first loved him, I wanted to take him apart, as a child dismembers a clockwork toy, to comprehend the inscrutable mechanics of its interior. I wanted to see him far more naked than he was with his clothes off.”

— Angela Carter, from “Flesh and the Mirror,” Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

[heartattackinblackdye]

(romantic) i would buy you and never use you because you r too special. like a washi tape

[themarchingbeetle]

[dame-de-pique]

Remi Verstreken - Manderscheid castle, 1909

[phlegmaphoto]