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10.29.2018

the division in tags between “this is a dumb classics joke” and “this is a statement about What Epic Is” is really funny to me

#man i just #*clenches fist* love epics #portrait of the artist #lit #06 #m #beginnings

headspace-hotel

why is it that whenever I am disillusioned with the world I go back to the epic of Gilgamesh

“It is the story of their becoming human together.”

This is it. This is the oldest written literary work that we know of, and it’s a story of becoming human together.

This is a story about love, and it’s a story about death, and we told this story thousands of years ago, THOUSANDS of years. We have always, always, always been wrestling with this profoundly beautiful existence and with knowing one another, while knowing that we all will die and be forgotten.

We become human by loving, but we also become human by knowing death.

And I’m just sitting here touching other human beings, another human experience, from across millennia, feeling a bit more human too through it, and I am trying very hard not to cry.

#lit #on earth we're briefly gorgeous #06 #beginnings

mournfulroses

George Seferis, tr. by Edmund Keeley, from Collected Poems; “The Return of the Exile,”

#growing pains #06

indiemovies

covid vaccine so we can get more pics of nicholas braun smoking in a mesh top

“Friend.”

What, you don’t beg for kisses and have sex dreams about ur old school friends? Pfft, grow up 😤

ginkobirchfalls

An addition

#come into the water #06

slugspoon

sunset

#art #familiar haunts #06

iloveyou2

cat sculptures by kouichi maekawa

I’LL GIVE YOU MY HEART TO MAKE A PLACE

you are jeff, richard siken / maurice, e. m. forster / snow and dirty rain, richard siken / if we were villains, m. l. rio / the goldfinch, donna tartt / this could be the place (naive melody), talking heads / les misérables, victor hugo / road music, richard siken

#parallels #familiar haunts #06