Oh — really, Housman!

Bee | classicist + Trekkie + enjoyer of bees

[splendidemendax]

Pollard: I say, did you see in the Sketch — Oscar Wilde's latest? 'Oh, I have worked hard all day — in the morning I put in a comma, and in the afternoon I took it out again!' Isn't that priceless? Housman: Why? Pollard: What? Housman: Oh, I see. It was a joke, you mean? Pollard: Oh — really, Housman! —Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love, 47

[havingapoemwithyou]

I Guess By Now I Thought I’d Be Done With Shame by Franny Choi

[tysonfurybattlepass]

public defenders get behind me. i’ll defend you this time

[tysonfurybattlepass]

“so you like criminals?” I LIKE THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL.

[diogenesprintco]

Symmetrical irises from a couple years ago - now in blue!

Followers of this blog will know me as an enjoyer of handmade cotton papers, but this is one of the rare times I had a misprintless experience with a more mid-weight pressed paper.

[splendidemendax]

funny how not sleeping even just the one night will make everything bad and ouch. who signed off on this.

[romans-art]

year_of_hell.png

[orphan55]

I don't think dr who is getting cancelled but you have to admit generating hype for an announcement only to say "we're pulling the plug" would be kind of hilarious

[echoesdistant]

happy well, we'll know better next time wednesday

[splendidemendax]

just described in detail to my mother the album i listened to yesterday (← it was bad)

[phrear2]

sad feeling to try to mutualbait when the mutual you wanted to bait already finished their tumblr shift for the day

[dailyclassicart]

Viktor Schramm - "During the fitting" (1900)

[polari]

I'll Teach You Cree by Gregory Scofield

with the tip of my spring tongue, ayîki      frog your mouth will be the web catching apihkêsis words,                           spider a crawling-out ceremony that cannot be translated.

hâw, pîkiskwê!                                             Now, speak!

I’ll teach you Cree, nêhiyawêwin                 the Cree language  that is the taste of pimiy êkwa saskarômina                         fat and saskatoon berries Your mouth will be the branches I am picking clean, a summer heat ceremony that cannot be translated.

hâw, pîkiskwê!                                              Now, speak!

I’ll teach you Cree in the winter, pipon                                      winter when the dogs curl against our backs. Your mouth will be pawâcakinâsis-pîsim     the frost exploding moon that cannot be translated. It will be a ceremony.

hâw, pîkiskwê!                                               Now, speak!

I’ll teach you Cree ê-kohk mistahi ê-sâkihitan.                           because I love you a lot It will be in the fall, this ceremony. You will have the mouth of a beaver, thick and luminescent.

I will make my camp there ê-kohk mistahi ê-sâkihitan.                           because I love you a lot This cannot be translated.

hâw, pîkiskwê!                                               Now, speak!

[splendidemendax]

the album i'm listening to is really long and not at all to my taste. why am i still listening to it then? well because i never turned it off and now i'm seven minutes from the end so like. shrug emoticon.

[imjunebitch]

"can mutuals dm" "can mutuals ask for your discord" girl, mutuals have an implied invitation to my wedding

[cryptotheism]

Do you think Plato could've taken a cave hyena

RAW STRENGTH: Cave hyena wins

PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE: Also the cave hyena

[goldensunset]

has anybody else noticed that the classic sci fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus features a Torment Nexus? that’s pretty problematic of the author

[correctopinionhaver]

so many mental health issues these days are due to the fact that we no longer put the gargoyles on buildings that used to scare away the evil spirits that cause mental illness