#sharp-tender-shock

[elucubrare]

sharp-tender-shock replied to your post: stripedroseandsketchpads replied to your post ...

oh no Odysseus would be a troll

yup! I think he'd be the devil's advocate variant, but I'm open to other opinions. 

[elflady]

[howglorygoes]

i was reading my floyd collins book while waiting for my nails to dry and i remembered...i'm gay

as if i forget sometimes

[likeniobe]

🌟!!

antissia, who is pamphilia’s love rival and foil – she’s also a poet and for wroth is everything that a woman writer shouldn’t be, in part 2 she goes mad and wears extravagant clothing and starts speaking in this incredibly overblown style and recites her verses all the time, so the sorceress melissea cures her by getting her into a bed that submerges underwater for 24 hours if I’m remembering correctly and then she’s normal again. but in part 1 she’s just sort of a nuisance and spies on pamphilia when she’s doing things like carving melancholy love poems into trees

“You cannot thus dissemble,” replied Antissia, “your owne hand in yonder faire Ash will witnes against you.”“Not so,” said Pamphilia, “for many Poetss write aswell by imitation, as by sence of passion; therefore this is no proofe against me.” (1.i.94)

[plasmapop]

Your translations are absolutely stunning. I love how you excavate a single poem for multiple pieces, I love the way you phrase things. Just amazing.

thank you so much :”) 

[elucubrare]

sharp-tender-shock replied to your photoset “the first one is hilarious; the second one, well, why is there a Tom...”

I’m more confused by Roald Dahl

i dunno, you could have, like, the Giant Peach as a water ride or something. what are you going to do with Tom Sawyer, "Convincing Someone To Paint A Fence: The Interactive Experience"?  

[elucubrare]

i think the main appeal of Anne Carson is to cod classicists like me who've had a taste of the classics and are interested in them but don't know Greek and favor accessibility over accuracy. I can see why, to someone who actually has experience studying classics, she's not all that and a bag of chips.

Like I said, I do think the project is good -- I wish, I think, that there were other prominent people in the space she's in, so people don't take her word or interpretations as though they were handed down from Mount Sinai. 

[elucubrare]

Aaah I’m sorry!! Um. How about this: top 5 bad sentences in pulp sci fi

how were you to know that i've let down my empire? but I can definitely do the second: 

And finally he had overtaken the Orient Express, carrying the princess, which he had missed in Paris by four minutes and eleven seconds. To make up those four odd minutes required empires for elbow room…

Eugene P. Lyle Jr., “D'Artagnan of Kansas" 

“Into what sort of nightmare had they been led?”

Alexander Blade, "Dynasty of the Devil"

“Ho!” said he, drawing a wicked-looking dirk from his robes and flashing it at them.“

"Ho ho!” replied Broct as all six of his arms whipped out from beneath his outer cloak, a razor-sharp dirk in each hand.

Gary Alan Ruse, Morlac: The Quest of the Green Magician

“A bulge of forearm muscles, a bending steel blade, and – spaaang! The lock to the first chest came loose.

Kothar lifted the chest lid and heaved.

‘By Elwys’ golden breasts!’ he panted."

Gardner F. Fox, Kothar, Barbarian Swordsman

“Man is a joke. Nature made him when she was tired, as the architect of a cathedral fashions a gargoyle in a sportive moment. It is the insect, not man, who is the predestined lord of the ages!”

honestly i forget but it was about a kingdom of giant beetles at the North Pole