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By a year or two ago I had come to the conclusion that I truly wanted only two things in this world: the company of my friends, and the opportunity for unfettered thought.

Tana French, The Likeness (also known as, I love Daniel & all the rest of them hours)

#she should just stay with them. honestly #tana french #the likeness #dublin murder squad #books #quote #allie reads

raylangivins

has everyone seen the website that gives you a rothko for your local weather?

#and somehow it was just right

sovietpostcards

Mobile library in Gorno-Altaysk region (USSR, 1953)

#books #soviet

spankerella

Happy Lizard Fashion Day to those who celebrate.

soracities

Town of Tashkent in Uzbekistan, 2000. ph. Bruno Barbey

#photography #bruno barbey #cities #central asia

wildspringday

gonna be a lover for a minute, reblog and put in the tags the last movie that you LOVED like intensely loved like 5 stars on letterboxd LOVED

#marley i saw paris texas last summer and it iiiiis that good also five stars #now i'm like have i loved a new movie that much since idk #i did watch elia suleiman's it must be heaven recently and that was very good

lumsel

whats prev's element

water

fire

earth

air

aether

Voting ended onApr 29

#i said earth for you #for some reason

junestrings

through pottery we domesticated rocks

blue--deer

*slides this across the table* you're going to want to read this

elodieunderglass

There are Experiences behind this sign

forasecondtherewedwon

He would pick up eggshells, a bird's wing, a jawbone, the ashy fragment of a wasp's nest. He would peer at each of them with the most absolute attention, and then put them in his pockets, where he kept his jackknife and his loose change. He would peer at them as if he could read them, and pocket them as if he could own them. This is death in my hand, this is ruin in my breast pocket, where I keep my reading glasses. At such times he was as forgetful of her as he was of his suspenders and his Methodism, but all the same it was then that she loved him best, as a soul all unaccompanied, like her own.

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

#Housekeeping #Marilynne Robinson #books #quote

birdiebowers

live laugh love Herbert Ponting's descriptions

#happy things #penguins

cuties-in-codices

town square scenes (in lucerne and zofingen)

miniatures from the luzerner chronik, a chronicle of the history of the city of lucerne written by diebold schilling and illustrated with over 400 full-page miniatures by two painters. the manuscript was created in lucerne, c. 1511-1513

source: Luzern, Korporation Luzern, S 23 fol., pp. 336 and 528

#oooh #manuscript #cute #early modern

fluentisonus

really enjoying this very specific bit of ancient literature I've come across that consists of "roman authors who clearly think it's very strange that greek houses have separate areas for men and women"

fluentisonus

"Men's dinner parties are held in these large rooms; for it was not the practice, according to Greek custom, for the mistress of the house to be present. On the contrary, such peristyles are called the men's apartments, since in them the men can stay without interruption from the women ... The Greeks call the large rooms in which men's dinner parties are usually held ἁνδρωνεϛ, because women do not go there."

-- Vitruvius trans. M.H. Morgan

"For instance, what Roman would blush to take his wife to a dinner-party? What matron does not frequent the front rooms of her dwelling and show herself in public? But it is very different in Greece; for there a woman is not admitted to a dinner-party, unless relatives only are present, and she keeps to the more secluded part of the house called 'the women's apartment,' to which no man has access who is not near of kin."

-- Cornelius Nepos trans. J.C. Rolfe

akinmytua2

I wonder if the Romans got that from the Etruscans? Because I think the Etruscan tombs show pretty equal husband/wife stuff going on.

fluentisonus

yeah ! *with the caveat that I wouldn't call women's circumstances anywhere in the ancient world 'equal'

I think this one pretty clearly has an etruscan/italian root to it! like you say, I think the strongest & most compelling evidence is we can see this in a lot of etruscan art of banquets and parties:

and then we also have a couple bits from greek authors — in athenaeus' deipnosophistae he quotes this classic bit from theopompus (huge grain of salt as theopompus is obviously just saying whatever here, but I think we can take what he says about mixed gender dining, if not the implications of promiscuity, as pretty true, given our other material):

"And they dine not with their own husbands, but with anyone who happens to be present; and they pledge whoever they please in their cups : and they are amazingly fond of drinking, and very handsome."

(trans. younge)

and then there's this other bit (also via athenaeus) that quotes aristotle on the etruscans, saying they dine with their wives: