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fremedon · 4 years ago
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When I saw Cotton Vitellius A.xv--the Beowulf manuscript--it was open to the passage I had memorized for my recitation day in Old English II. The one passage I could parse, fluently translate, and give you the footnotes on absolutely cold. I impressed the hell out of a docent and a roomful of tourists.
covid sucks man i miss when you'd be at a gallery or museum and someone who knows shit would randomly talk to you for ages about the exhibit
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