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paristhemusical1990

listen to australian rock artist jon english’s musical paris (a love story) 1990

Like the Christian Gospels, American shooting and crying stories are fundamentally about sin, redemption, and forgiveness. Stop-Loss does not condone Brandon killing a family in their own home (the sin), but it suggests that crying makes up for the shooting (the redemption). You are expected to forgive Brandon by the end of the film. Brandon doesn’t reach out of their surviving relatives and apologize, or do much of anything to support refugees in the Middle East, but he does suffer, and you are expected to agree that his suffering makes up for the murder, that his tears exonerate him.

Odysseus is repeatedly described as a “veteran” by both himself and others in Christopher Nolan’s 2026 adaptation of The Odyssey. No such word exists in Attic Greek. There is a word for men who are absent or else too sick to fight (ἀπόμαχος); there is a word for old men (γέρων), who would not have been expected to fight anymore (see, for examples in the art of the time, Nestor in The Iliad). But there is no one-to-one translation for the English word “veteran” for the simple reason that the Ancient Greeks had no such concept. City-states went to war every couple of years, meaning no one could ever fully move beyond it. War was not something you sign up for, leave, go do Over There, and hopefully come back from. Virtually all men fought in wars, which meant soldiers were not a minority — they were not special.

...The Odyssey (2026) brings the American tradition of shooting and crying to Troy. Odysseus the veteran cannot fully come back home from the war until he has made peace with the crime he committed overseas. Smuggling soldiers into enemy territory via wooden horse might not constitute a war crime by today’s standards, but Nolan frames this strategy as a violation of “Zeus’ law”.

...Anne Carson calls the Odyssey a “postwar epic”. Crying after shooting is simply what a postwar epic looks like in America. In that way, Nolan truly has adapted Homer; Nolan has imported his own cultural situation into the myth.

Just as The Aeneid used Homeric archetypes to express Roman national identity, The Odyssey (2026) shows Americans how we view ourselves: we love our home; we love our family; we come from multiple races, but most of us are white; we are world-weary; we did something wrong far away, but our memories are foggy, and it’s best not to dwell too much on our victims; our hands are perpetually innocent, and stained with fresh blood.

Odysseus at the VA: How Christopher Nolan Americanized The Odyssey

#odyssey

sivavakkiyar

re rilke’s Archaic Torso Of Apollo poem:

sivavakkiyar

ch4momile

Archaïscher Torso Apollos

Wir kannten nicht sein unerhörtes Haupt, darin die Augenäpfel reiften. Aber sein Torso glüht noch wie ein Kandelaber, in dem sein Schauen, nur zurückgeschraubt, sich hält und glänzt. Sonst könnte nicht der Bug der Brust dich blenden, und im leisen Drehen der Lenden könnte nicht ein Lächeln gehen zu jener Mitte, die die Zeugung trug. Sonst stünde dieser Stein entstellt und kurz unter der Schultern durchsichtigem Sturz und flimmerte nicht so wie Raubtierfelle; und bräche nicht aus allen seinen Rändern aus wie ein Stern: denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht. Du mußt dein Leben ändern.

gothhabiba

[ID: text reading "Archaic Torso of Apollo

We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,

gleams in all its power. Otherwise the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could a smile run through the placid hips and thighs to that dark center where procreation flared.

Otherwise this stone would seem defaced beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders and would not glisten like a wild beast's fur:

would not, from all the borders of itself, burst like a star: for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life. end ID]

#words

mccleans

scrolling through the dash when the mutuals are in a new ugly guy phase

rob-pattinson

LUPITA NYONG'O 2026 | "The Odyssey" New York Premiere (July 14)

#humans

notwiselybuttoowell

Quiet joys w/ Marge

exitwound

this is making me hyperventilate

somethingunlikeanythingelse

I have no sense of sense is too funny not to highlight

#some of the ppl in the comments have no sense of sense fr

wonderstruck

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

#just finished the wiliad and abt to start the wodyssey #also la tregua for book club

bastardimprisoned

Neo-Andean Architecture

Designed by Freddy Mamani

El Alto, Bolivia

#settings #architecture #aes

xtec

This is what the average YouTube thumbnail looks like now

noneuclideangarf

spent too long on this

saltshroud

#left hand of darkness #art

avantgarden-er

not to be rude but if you’re losing consciousness you should dial for an ambulance not just use the computer.

I would liveblog Anything

lucydacusgirl

I think about the disco elysium ‘are women bourgeois’ screenshot all the time (despite never playing the game) because it’s such a succinct way of demonstrating the fact that I think honestly the majority of people see feminism and ‘womens issues’ as frivolous inventions of upper class white women which is how you end up with people handwringing about working class men and never once considering the existence of working class women.