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toastytrusty · 11 months ago

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fundamental amrev experience is being assigned the legend of sleepy hollow as required reading in your highschool english class and freaking out A. because it's by washington irving, who was discussed extensively in that one nancy isenberg essay about aaron burr's sexuality, and B. because it Won't Stop Talking About John André, who, of course, is john andré

#everyone raise a glass to john andré #reading tlsh while watching turn was actually such an experience #it's so fascinating? how much of an impact he and his death had on american culture #especially because yk. he was british. and turned benedict arnold who the average american does Not like #something soooo fascinating about arnold being demonized and andré being glorified #which i'm sure was in no small part to be arnold being entirely unpleasant to be around and andré being like #everyone's favorite guy ever #choose your fighter:#ben “i can recall no instance where my affections were so fully absorbed in any man” tallmadge #marquis “i made the mistake of allowing myself to acquire a true affection for him” de lafayette #alexander *writes a 3000 word letter to laurens about how much he loved andré* hamilton #and more #and yeah just.#the fascination that tlsh makes clear people had with him #is SO interesting to me sorry idk. that's america's favorite brit right there #also. washington irving never beating the gay allegations idk #the achilles and patroclus mention was crazy #john andré #john andre #benjamin tallmadge #ben tallmadge #marquis de lafayette #alexander hamilton #i probably should have written all that in the actual post and not in the tags but. Whatever

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