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Lifelong Londoner Drawn to the weird, strange and colourful Shakespeare and Poe fanatic Expert on poetic meter and Shakespeare’s Sonnets Intro to meter, with further links: https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-use-2-syllable-words-in-iambic-pentameter/answer/
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The Waterfall, 1912 #franzmarc #cubism

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Spider-Man and friend

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Nothing going on is that hard to understand as long as someone with some credibility has the desire to explain it and the space to do so and I’m glad this NBC station did this for their viewers

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The best part of Goethe's masterpiece is the bit where Faust pauses while summoning a demon to bitch about having too much crap in his attic

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a woman posted a pic in a group chat of a baby turkey she bought thinking it was a chicken. She captioned the pic "IS THIS A TURKEY?!?" Anyway, I haven't been here because I've been yelling IS THIS A TURKEY at everything. You should try it

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Some deep strategic thinking here: you shouldn't strike at critical assets of an enemy military because that cut off the "off-ramps" that said enemy shows no sign of wanting to take.

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Wild Horses of Nevada — Maynard Dixon, 1927

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whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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On a day when the Tate brothers are charged with more than 20 crimes against women, let's not forget that Farage called Andrew Tate an "important voice" for young men. www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

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Poster for a concert of traditional Japanese music performed at UCLA in 1981. Asian Performing Arts Summer Institute / UCLA poster by Kazumasa Nagai (1981).

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As a former high school Latin nerd, I delighted in this thread. Do you know how often my Latin chops are relevant on social media? Fkn never, that’s how often. (which is for the best, because 12 was a *long* time ago, I have forgotten. so. much.) 🧵

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Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...

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Woodland Prayer, 1915 https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25771

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"Quite frankly, after seeing the horrors, I think abolishment is a middle ground. I think the proper course of action is to explore criminal prosecution against these agents, based on what they’re doing.”

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Had a conversation a few weeks ago that made me realize something: When a normal film fan loves a movie, they can tell you their favorite scenes off the top of their head just like that. I have run into many BIRTH OF A NATION defenders online and irl. I have never once seen one of them do that.

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George Petty, 1935

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trying my hand at good old-fashioned posting. some old stuff now, some new stuff soon. for now, hi! it seems nice here. www.erinvestart.com www.erinvest.bigcartel.com #portfolioday

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you have to ground your expectations going into this: it's rare that I get a callback, for example, but my goal isn't necessarily to receive a response. rather, it's to make a nuisance of myself for the long-haul.

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UNDER THE CLAW (1912) is a big cat attack drama directed by Jean Durand and starring Berthe Dagmar, acrobat and animal trainer, along with one of her leopards.

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“You don’t like AI therapists because they’re a threat to your income” No, I don’t like AI therapists because they are harmful!

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Dover Beach as an expansive overengagement with form, rather than a retreat from it. #MatthewArnold #DoverBeach substack.com/@snapdragons...

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Ernst Haas.

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The Times of the Day, Alfons Mucha, 1899.

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Salvador Dali. “Mountain Lake”.

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Flowers are beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow… #scansion

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