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Four Episodes in the Story of Hercules. ca. 1515–35. Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, in memory of her husband, 1935 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/467617

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"...and so it seems I must always write you letters that I can never send."

- Sylvia Plath (@silentroad )

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Vessel with grotesque masks, griffins, and a frieze populated by a bull and men in bas-relief (reverse copy after Cherubino Alberti, in turn after Polidoro da Caravaggio). ca 1550–1600. Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/397298

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how do you become so well read?

by reading

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Maria Magdalena by Guido Cagnacci (1601 – 1663) | Germanic warrior with helmet by Osmar Schindler (1867 – 1927)

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study of drapery

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caring about things is cool being passionate is cool being earnest is cool being genuine is cool being compassionate is cool

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Misty Morning in the Garden ig: clarefostergardens

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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

— Franz Kafka

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The News-Herald, Franklin, Pennsylvania, March 26, 1924

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Villa Torlonia, Roma 2023

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L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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Claude Cahun. La Chambre du Chat, 1940.

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Plato makes up Atlantis as an allegory and over 2,000 years later people are still looking for it. You might as well be looking for Narnia.

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Plato: Luxury and unlimited power are forces that corrupt human beings and lead them to being colonialist and stupid. The gods will punish Athens if we continue to exploit others for our own gain. I have invented this society as a parable to illustrate my point because I tend to use metaphor for a lot of things.

Everyone: But where are you hiding it though

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Plato: I’ve purposefully included details like a mud shoal west of Iberia that doesn’t exist and references to a volcanic eruption that we all have cultural memory of as an obvious indication that I made this up. Are you paying attention? It’s a metaphor. I’m using literary references. You can go west of Iberia yourself. It’s not there. I explained where it is and it’s not there. You all know it’s not there. Please stop it with the luxury and exploitation. That’s my main point here.

Everyone: Yeah but where is it though

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Plato: Orichalcum is just a fancy looking metal. It’s kinda like fancy copper. I made it up for this fake parable city.

Everyone: So it’s magic, then.

Plato: I want Athens to be a bit more like Sparta.

Everyone: Where’s the magic metal

Plato: I just think that greed is bad, generally. We should stop doing that.

Everyone: Where are you hiding the magic metal???