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I'm, above all else, a tangentgirl. always saying shit like "sidenote," "oh also," "by the way,"

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“source?” divine intuition, gut instinct, and cryptic symbolism from my dreams

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Uni's got us marking each other's essays girl how do you have 500 words and SEVEN PAGES??????

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Odysseus and Telemachus Slaughter the Suitors of Penelope

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I'm killing someone can a SINGLE resource I need exist online? Just one chapter I beg of you I WILL read it in Italian if I have to

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the art academic

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A dog at the mock trial in Aristophanes’ Wasps howls “ἆυ, ἆυ, au, au” or “ἇυ, ἇυ, hau, hau” (Wasps, 903).8 Various other authors offer more words. Barking is depicted in several ways, paralleling the multitude of English words for canine vocalizations such as bark, howl, whine, whimper, yap, and growl. Onomatopoetic Greek words include the following: “βαύ, βαύ (bau bau); βαυβίζω/βαυβύζω (baubiz ¯o/baubuz ¯o); and especially βαΰζω (baüz ¯o); “ὑλάω (hula ¯o) would appear to imitate a howl. ᾿Ηπύω ( ¯epu ¯o), normally “roar”, seems to indicate loud barking at Aristophanes (Eq. 1023). Other verbs include ὑλάσκω (hylask ¯o), κλαγγαίνω (klangainō), κλάζω (klazō), and θωύσσω (thōussō).9 A dog who barks a great deal is βαϋστικός (baüstikos). Other sounds include ἀράζω (arazō) and κνυζάομαι (knuzaomai), which denote whining or whimpering. Such a variety of words for canine vocalizations indicates at the very least that the Greeks were in frequent contact with their dogs and that they felt it was important to be able to decipher their vocalizations.

-Seeing the Dog: Naturalistic Canine Representations from Greek Art, Kenneth F. Kitchell

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@lovesdaya

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kafka

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“Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter—this is what life is, herein lies its task. I have come to recognize this. This idea has entered into my flesh and blood.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, in a letter to his brother detailing his experience of nearly getting executed

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also insane about how in two different places there are lacunae where the traditional fill is about not being able to speak (poem 51.8 with nothing being left for him <of his voice in his mouth ...> his tongue growing numb; poem 65.9 with him being unable to hear his brother speak ever again). so voiceless that even the lines about voicelessness have been lost from the manuscript & can't be read or heard

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majoring in fuck all with a minor in whimsy

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Minotaur by Pedro Requejo Novoa (x)

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Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

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I treat being mean to the British Museum like it's my job

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if you think about it everything is about the fall of the roman republic