So Black to You, Perhaps. So Red to Me.

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[moradadabeleza]

Maud Chalard

[ilions-end]

as someone who is lowkey obsessed with how the odyssey is structured i find this diagram by james redfield very satisfying:

"[A pattern] based on strict alternation. Odysseus faces two kinds of dangers; he may be killed before he gets home, or he may be induced to stop on the way. He faces violence and temptation." (from Redfield's 'The Economic Man')

[evenepoel]

richie carapaz … r c … you know what else has the initials r c? that’s right. real ciclismo

[godlessondheimite]

the mark of a real actor is if they did theater before they hit it big and continue doing theater after. if they didn’t do theater before, then they are hacks and if they stop doing theater after, then they are dilettantes who lucked out. obviously this applies to all actors ever and there are no exceptions.

[godlessondheimite]

daniel radcliffe and barbra striesand kind of being like the jesus and satan exceptions to this

[04k96]

[terpsikeraunos]

ancient greek word of the day: ἁλιγενής (haligenēs), sea-born, of Aphrodite

[urgetocreate]

Gordon Hunt (British b. 1958), Into the Blue, 2023, Acrylic on canvas

[toneburst]

Wrocław girl by Chris Niedenthal (1982, Poland)

[clove-pinks]

Saw a bilingual Canadian sign that read NO LOITERING/FLÂNAGE INTERDIT and I'm losing it over "flânage." Flânage? Like flâneur?? They made it illegal to be a cool 19th century guy???

[chthonic-cassandra]

Night is the interior world - in this case not spatial but temporal - of Romeo and Juliet, a middle world of transformation and dream sharply contrasted to the harsh daylight world of law, civil war, and banishment. Night will be the setting for all the play's crucial private moments, moments of tragedy and love: the masque at Capulet's feast; the balcony scene in the orchard; the aubade scene, after the lovers have spent the night together; and the final night, the final darkness of Romeo's visit to Juliet's tomb, his fight with the County Paris, and his death. This is all the more striking when we recall that plays written for the public theater, like Romeo and Juliet [...] were performed in full daylight, in the middle of the afternoon. The sense of foreboding night and pervasive blackness is conjured up entirely by and through language, with the assistance of a few well-placed props and costumes: a lantern, a candle, a nightdress. Night, that is to say, is a state of theater and a state of mind.

Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare After All

[evardstentacles]

fuck everything. whats the media people ASSUME youre into. what are people surprised that you havent watched/played/whatever

[righthandarm-man]

can you remember the name of every person you’ve kissed?

yes, I remember all their names

I could name most of them but there are few I can’t remember

if you put all of them in a room I could put a name to at least half the faces

i’m not confident I could name a quarter of them, let alone half

I can’t remember more than one or two names

I’ve never kissed a soul and want to see the results

Voting ended onJul 23

[thoodleoo]

you've heard of faithful translations now get ready for unfaithful translations where i'm constantly cheating on the text i'm translating with another text that i find more interesting

[catilinas]

emily wilson translating the odyssey a second time???

[vintagesalt-deactivated20181115]

Susan Sarandon || 1974

[loveridden1999]

[eggnogtoast]

trying to bed a knight like: *unbuttons your jupon* *unbuckles your cuirass* *unbuckles your gorget* *takes off your hauberk* *stops to catch my breath* *unbuttons your gambeson* *takes off your shirt*