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Ok new game. What's the thing you're a fan of that you're the most pretentious about. NOT the most pretentious thing you're a fan of, I mean the thing that makes *you* act like one of those "oh yeah? Name five of their albums" people. There is a difference

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— A Prayer, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 

[text ID: I’m only asking for strength for my days. Teach me the art of small steps.]

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Édouard Sain (French, 1830-1910)

Excavations at Pompeii, 1865

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November

by Maggie Dietz

Show's over, folks. And didn't October do A bang-up job? Crisp breezes, full-throated cries Of migrating geese, low-floating coral moon.

Nothing left but fool's gold in the trees. Did I love it enough, the full-throttle foliage, While it lasted? Was I dazzled? The bees

Have up and quit their last-ditch flights of forage And gone to shiver in their winter clusters. Field mice hit the barns, big squirrels gorge

On busted chestnuts. A sky like hardened plaster Hovers. The pasty river, its next of kin, Coughs up reed grass fat as feather dusters.

Even the swarms of kids have given in To winter's big excuse, boxed-in allure: TVs ricochet light behind pulled curtains.

The days throw up a closed sign around four. The hapless customer who'd wanted something Arrives to find lights out, a bolted door.

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Kaoru Yamada aka 山田カオル aka Yamada Kaoru (Japanese, b. Kamakura Japan) - Soft Rays, Paintings: Digital Art

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I just want to say that history, when it arrives, may not look as you expect, based on the reading of history books. Things in there are always so clear. One knows exactly what one would have done.

George Saunders, Love Letter

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Summit Lake, Washington by me-wa

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studying ancient history will have you thinking stuff like The 18th century was basically yesterday

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Fucked up that you have to go to work during the winter. Should be curled up in a little nest with several months' supply of food stocked up right now.

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This is badass: Medieval Nubian Fashion Brought to Life. Click through to the link because there’s more replica clothing and it is all stunning!

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Lavender field, Provence, France.

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Leila Chatti, from “Tea”

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Colorful field on the plain of Castelluccio di Norcia in springtime during an explosion of blossoming, Italy, 2013 - by Roberto Bettacchi, Italian

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If a history-based work is good and inaccurate it’s because it’s a piece of art that sacrificed some points of accuracy for the sake of storytelling and conveying themes deeper and more important than a straightforward recounting of facts. If it’s bad and inaccurate then that’s just another reason why it sucks

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snow in central oxford