Prep School Woes

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Persepolis, The Tomb of Darius

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Marjane Satrapi, cartoonist and film director, best known for Persepolis

22 November 1969 - 4 June 2026

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wood engraving today

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― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

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'Werewolf' by Jakub Różalski

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If you want help finding which Odyssey translation sounds the best this site allows you to compare sample texts from each one:

And this one allows you to compare the Iliad translations:

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Oedipus did have one freedom: he was free to find out or not find out the truth. […] This freedom to search, and the heroic way in which Oedipus uses it, make the play not a picture of man's utter feebleness caught in the toils of fate, but on the contrary, a heroic example of man's dedication to the search for truth, the truth about himself.

Bernard Knox, in the introductory notes to Sophocles' Oedipus the King (trans. Robert Fagles)

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The Odyssey, Book 8, transl. Robert Fagles

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how does the odyssey begin? 

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Foreword to Robert Fagles' Oresteia

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genuinely insanity evoking

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Bob & Sara Dylan, The Rolling Thunder Revue—Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, November 15, 1975 © Ken Regan.

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Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

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here's my cat for your dash btw. if you even care

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I care very much

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Today, 27 April, in South Africa is Freedom Day, commemorating the day in 1994 when the country’s first post-apartheid elections were held. When the country’s post-apartheid constitution was ratified in 1996, it South Africa became the first country in the world to constitutionally outlaw sexuality-based discrimination, in no small part thanks to the world of gay anti-apartheid activist Simon Nkoli.

To hear Simon’s story, check out our podcast!

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