badhamburg

[badhamburg]

Me, six years ago.

Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year (London: London Dent, 1911), p. 92

[badhamburg]

This epic poem has been sponsored by the tourism board of Great Uruk.

Gilgamesh, trans. Stephen Mitchell (New York: Atria Paperback, 2014), 198–199.

[badhamburg]

All I want is for every billionaire seeking immortality to see their miracle cure stolen by a snake.

Gilgamesh, trans. Stephen Mitchell (New York: Atria Paperback, 2014), 196–197.

[badhamburg]

This is better than the Bible.

Gilgamesh, trans. Stephen Mitchell (New York: Atria Paperback, 2014), 186.

[badhamburg]

Gilgamesh starts contemplating death, inheritance, and contracts. He must be entering his mid thirties.

Gilgamesh, trans. Stephen Mitchell (New York: Atria Paperback, 2014), 178.

[badhamburg]

Ancient Sumerian life advice: dress up, support the arts, give women orgasms.

Gilgamesh, trans. Stephen Mitchell (New York: Atria Paperback, 2014), 168–169.

[badhamburg]

Beer and bread: making human civilization feel worth it since 2100 BCE (ish).

Gilgamesh, trans. Stephen Mitchell (New York: Atria Paperback, 2014), 147.

[badhamburg]

The audacity of this man to come to Ishtar for a favour after the Bull of Heaven incident.

Gilgamesh, trans. Stephen Mitchell (New York: Atria Paperback, 2014), 138–139, 156.

[badhamburg]

As a treehugger, I’m on Humbaba’s side.

Gilgamesh, trans. Stephen Mitchell (New York: Atria Paperback, 2014), 125.

[badhamburg]

If you can't just check Wikipedia and read that the sun is a luminous spheroid of plasma that provides provides the energy for all life on Earth from 149.6 million km away, I actually think “God” is a really good guess.

Gilgamesh, trans. Stephen Mitchell (New York: Atria Paperback, 2014), 100.

[badhamburg]

The Fast and the Furious: Sumerian Drift

Gilgamesh, trans. Stephen Mitchell (New York: Atria Paperback, 2014), 89–90, 105

[badhamburg]

We accepted all the ills of human civilization in exchange for carbs, and now they want us to give those up too.

Gilgamesh, trans. Stephen Mitchell (New York: Atria Paperback, 2014), 85–86.

[badhamburg]

I never want to hear anyone dismiss the entire romance genre as porn and therefore devoid of artistic merit ever again. As far as I can tell, the pen (or in this case the reed stylus) was invented because it’s too hard to chisel one-handed.

Gilgamesh, trans. Stephen Mitchell (New York: Atria Paperback, 2014), 78–79.

[badhamburg]

I am so excited for this tyrant to reckon with his own mortality, a feeling with which I have become very familiar by following American politics.

Gilgamesh, trans. Stephen Mitchell (New York: Atria Paperback, 2014), 72–73.

[badhamburg]

I’m turning to the history books for an AI-proof side-hustle.

Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Women at Work in Medieval Europe (New York: Checkmark Books, 2000), p. 119.

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If I am ever presented with the opportunity to use a time machine, I will remember that some of our strongest evidence for women’s work in the Middle Ages is that they were suffered the same punishments for bread crimes as their male colleagues and I will set the dial to 1993.

Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Women at Work in Medieval Europe (New York: Checkmark Books, 2000), p. 118.

[badhamburg]

My surname is not about work; it’s about living by a river. And like my ancestors, I too forget my responsibilities when presented with the opportunity to splash my feet in a nice little stream.

Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Women at Work in Medieval Europe (New York: Checkmark Books, 2000), p. 75.