#quoits

[yellowbrickramble]

Every generation, countless 12+ year olds read Marvelous Land of Oz for the first time and have no idea what "quoits" is.

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[sarafangirlart]

Apollo is sometimes credited with the invention of quoits, but Perseus is also credited as the inventor.

There are multiple versions of the game, but we can assume that this is the version we’re it’s a metal ring (bc if Acrisius was killed by a rubber or rope ring that would be hilarious) however, sports aren’t just invented by one person, it’s usually a group effort, now I imagine him developing and playing the game with Danaë, Andromeda and his kids.

[kidcore-nostalgia]

[danny-darkness]

Danny Darke Photography © 2019

[thewondermentofillustration]

Winslow Homer - Pitching Quoits, 1865, oil on canvas Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is an American landscape and seascape painter and printmaker who is mostly self taught. Homer began his career as a comercial artist. He worked as an artist correspondent during the American Civil War.

[thefugitivesaint]

Peter Newell (1862-1924), 'Quoits a la Solitaire', ''Caricature: Wit and Humor of a Nation in Picture, Song and Story'', 14th Edition, 1912 Source

[supersciencegeek]

for some reason yesterday i was thinking about Ulysses, which i haven’t even read since college. and i was thinking about how i always wrote my essays about all the other women in the book, and not about Molly. And how my professor was always like, what about Molly, what about Molly. he was obsessed with Molly Bloom, and I was like what the heck dude, what about all the other more interesting women characters.

Then suddenly I realized. Molly Bloom is not a fully formed character. she’s a two-dimensional projection of Leopold’s (and like all the other male characters’) fantasies and dream women. and the professor’s! and probably like almost every male Joyce scholar since the dang book was published.

Molly Bloom is the original manic pixie dream girl.

and if i was writing an essay today, that’s what i would write about.

(almost wants to make me reread the book)

[turnbullephemera]

A life of leisure is evoked on the cover of this a passenger list for RMS 'Makura', on voyage from San Francisco to Papeete, Rarotonga, Wellington, Sydney. The 'Makura' was built in 1908, and operated by the Union Steam Ship Company until 1936. On a return journey from Australia towards Tahiti in June that year, the papers reported that "the Makura to-day took a consignment of Australian live rabbits for a French importer at Tahiti. The animals and their families are to be liberated to help to level thick undergrowth". We wonder what happened to those rabbits and the Tahitian undergrowth.

Union Steam Ship Co. of N.Z. Ltd. :Union Royal Mail Line via San Francisco. Passenger list [Cover. August 30th 1933].

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