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everything is about reaching the ending except for the ending which is about wanting to go back to the start

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Orestes by Euripides, 408 BCE (“…μὴ θεαί μ᾽ οἴστρῳ κατάσχωσι.”)

trans. Michael Wodhull, 1782 (“Lest those Goddesses should seize me/ With frenzy.”)

trans. T. A. Buckley, 1858 (“I fear lest the Goddesses should stop me with their torments.”)

trans. E. P. Coleridge, 1891 (“I am afraid the goddesses will prevent me by madness.”)

trans. Arthur S. Way, 1898 (“Lest the Fiends by madness stay me.”)

trans. Philip Vellacott, 1972 (“This: suppose the Furies drive me mad?”)

trans. Kenneth McLeish, 1997 (“If the goddesses come… another fit…”)

trans. David Kovacs, 2002 (“…the fear that the goddesses may seize me with frenzy.”)

trans. Anne Carson, 2009 (“The ghastly goddessess—they’ll send my wits astray.”)

trans. Ian Johnston, 2010 (“I’m worried the goddesses will stop me with this madness.”)

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The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.

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veitnamese farmers harvest water chestnuts in fields of blowing waves of grass (x)

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Serie of things I like, for no apparent reason:

1. Kitchens

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Julio Larraz (Cuban, b. 1944), L'Heure de l'apéritif [Aperitif Hour], 2015. Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in.

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Emily Luan, “Because I dare not be in awe“

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Women, they have minds and they have souls as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition and they’ve got talent as well as just beauty, and I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I’m so sick of it! But… I am so lonely. Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

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“The family is truly desperate. And when people get desperate, the knives come out.” - Knives Out (2019)

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Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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when héloïse in portrait of a lady on fire asked ‘do all lovers feel as though they’re inventing something?’ 

and when sarah ruhl said ‘there was once a very great american surgeon named halsted. he was married to a nurse. he loved her-immeasurably. one day halsted noticed that his wife’s hands were chapped and red when she came back from surgery. and so he invented rubber gloves. for her. it is one of the great love stories in medicine. the difference between inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love. when i met ana i knew: i loved her to the point of invention.’

and when yehuda amichai said ‘we were such a good and loving invention. an airplane made from a man and wife. wings and everything. we hovered a little above the earth. we even flew a little.’

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& later, i spot him in the super- market & know he knows i’m watching the way a shepherd tends his flock or the way the ocean shivers when the moon slides onto its back. & there is no significant body of water in the suburbs, nothing to drown in yet we drown anyway. & i take him in the long grass of the park, i taste him in the weeds, knees wet with mud, the night buzzing with the deaths of mosquitoes. the wild silence after, mouths heavy with musk, is complete & even the birds are mute with love in their nests. there is no song except our huffed breaths, the shuffle of grass bending beneath us, tick- ling skin, the whole world an animal gone quiet.

— Omar Sakr, from “Fridays in the Park (or how to make a boy holy),” The Lost Arabs

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“Her eyes were no violet, after all- they were amber. They were the color of candied ginger or a slice of cinnamon cake. Faded paper, polished leather, a brandied apricot. Orange-peel tea. I considered them, imagining the letters I would write to her. Pipe tobacco, perhaps. A honey lozenge, an autumn leaf.”

— Timothy Schaffert, The Swan Gondola  (via pomegranatetree)

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“Fireworks” - Mitski // Morning Sun - Edward Hopper // “Beach Life-In-Death” - Car Seat Headrest // Automat - Edward Hopper

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lanvin fw19

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