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南池子nanchizi garden, beijing in china

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To add into the conversation, from a spanish perspective, it's a hard book to read: Cervantes used a lot of expressions and wordings now forgotten, so that makes it a very difficult book even for native speakers, but once you're more familiar with the language used, it's a delicious reading. I agree you should need a good translation to get the point of the jokes. Also I find interesting to add that Cervantes lost an arm in Lepanto and was jailed various times during his life, and Don Quixote was a very very popular book in his lifetime (so popular even another writer- Alonso De Avellaneda- decided to create a second part of the story without Cervantes consent: This is called the Avellaneda's Quixote, which obliged Cervantes to print his second part of the story fast). I feel his experiences with war and jail made Cervantes to acquire this sense of satire and caustic humour. Reading the Anon comment I feel, albeit some of his ideas are plainfully wrong, some are not: The book has been regarded as both a satire and critique of obsessive behaviour towards chivalry books (at the time discussing about knights like Amadis, el Cid or Arthur or Lancelot was a very popular trend among all the social groups and this is what Cervantes implies in the book making the scholar Sansón and the barber Nicolás discuss about the different virtues of those knights. Also in the first part of the book or so to "cure" Quixote, his friends decide to burn all his chivalry books, but Cervantes decide to spare some of them explaining why some are "good literature") and a methaphor of the search of hope in the middle ground of fantasy and reallity (In the end, Don Quixote becomes Alonso Quijano , the poor Hidalgo, and Sancho Panza still wants to be thee gobernor of the island that Quixote owed to him).

Also I find endearing it's a true historical view of some of the problems the kingdom of Castille had, and how common people saw it: At the time the "blood purity" obsession was on the verge (Cervantes makes Sancho Panza proud to be an "old Christian"- at the time that meant he hadn't jewish nor moorish ascendants- I find that is a joke from Cervantes, like saying "the only way to be an Old Christian is to be a humble castillan labourer whose family hasn't gone out of their village for centuries"), and the expellion of the Moriscos (the last descents of muslims spanish) had happened by the sole command of king Philliph III. Historians agree that it was a very unnecessary move made more of fear for the turkish power and berber piracy than for any other practical questions, since these moriscos were well integrated in the society. In Don Quixote village there is in fact moriscos, Ricote and her daughther, who are expelled and found by Sancho and Quixote in their way to the exile. Sancho begins to speak about how sad and unfair it is. This scene is really pungent when you take in consideration that Sancho is an "Old Christian", he shouldn't be even speaking to them, but he doesn't care really much about how his religion is or what his "bloodline status" is, he is sad that two good people and friends have to go, and Cervantes decided to write it, which meant it was a consensus about the own unfairness of all the thing.

Sorry for being this long, but I think Don Quixote deserves it.

I feel almost certain that Anon is wrong about Don Quixote too, but I haven't read it. Shit is almost as long as Dog of War

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I find mildly infuriating that people in the comments cannot understand the last one is a direct hommage to Velazquez, "Los Borrachos", a painter who was himself avant-garde enough to paint common people and gods together.

just stumbled across Francisco Soria Aedo’s work and first off: really good painter, super talented. He mainly did portraits and neoclassical but I really like are his expressions, which do show up in his neoclassical work. lots of people smiling and having fun and it’s just very cute

this is one of my favorites

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Not only that, but as far as I'm concerned, the game still exists in Spain and hispanic countries, called Matatena or also Tabas. And what I find awesome is that has been milennia around in different cultures.

god forbid 5000 year old girls do anything

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~ Treasure of Boscoreale: Goblet with Skeletons

Date: 25 B.C-A.D. 50

Period: Imperial Period

Culture: Roman

Place of origin: Italy, Boscoreale (Villa de la Pisanella)

Medium: Silver

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Etruscan (from Vulci, Lazio, Italy), Sarcophagus Lid with a Husband and Wife, ca. 350-300 BCE, travertine (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

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 I’d add some andalusian/spanish medieval ones and also sephardic ones (can be into the jewish section-or in the general spanish-andalusian medieval) without particular distinction :

-Oh The  Moorish Queen Who Was Christian Before, Wants a Slave, Let’s Get Her Pregnant Sister, Kill Her Husband And Exchange Children.

-Mom, I’ve Dreamed Something Beautiful. Daughter, You’re Prophetising Your Future Incestuous Marriage With Your Brother and His Death.

-Oh This Boy Has a Fixation With a Misterious Girl And He Is Jealous Of The River. Girl’s Drowns In The River. Boy Was Right All Along (Matarile-rile-rile-ró).

-My Boyfriend Is a Crockery Painter, That’s it.

-I’m a Prostitute And I’m Transfixed By Green Eyes of a Client Who’s Gonna Stay With Me One (1) Night. He’s The Most Unromantic Person, He’ Just Want to Give Me a Dress.

-Seven (F*cking Delicious) Ways to Cook the Eggplant.

- Tarara Is an Excentric Girl With a Pimple In The Ass. It’s a Major Event For The Community To Go To See It Burst, so Come and Take a Seat.

-This Man is Giving Water to His Horse and SIngs, Mum, I Think I Love Him. Ok, I’ll Kill You Both. God Transforms Them into Plants. Mum Kill Them Again. God Transforms Them into Animals. Mum Kills Them Again. God Transforms Them into Poisonous Waters. Mum Gets a Bath and Dies.

im putting together a couple of scottish folk mixes bc that’s what i do and im honestly curious if anyone in my country has ever been unequivocally happy about anything ever

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Incredible. They're so close to getting it.

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In honor of me approaching my first 6 months mark as a flight attendant, here are some highlights from my time in this job:

When a lady stopped me gently to whisper that i had “mastered the art of kindness”

When an elderly woman told me i was “put on earth to be a flight attendant”

Each and every time someone complimented my nails

When i found an $8000 diamond watch left behind under a seat, gave it to a gate agent, only to have the passenger come running back 10 minutes later. Gate agent: man u wouldve been in trouble, huh? Man whom looked like a bond villain: i wouldve been SHOT.

Every lesbian ive worked with and had the nice bonding moment of “ur gay?? Im gay!!”

That time a man tried to get huffy with me because he wasnt in 1st class and i got to say “sir u can either sit in this seat or u can sit in a seat in the terminal while u wait to take the next flight”

When i had an emergency landing because the pilots lost steering and we all thought we were gonna die but then we didn’t and everyone just applauded the landing and didnt even complain about the 2 hour delay

When my flight was delayed for 3 hours because the plane wouldnt start so the crew and i just took a really long nap in the jetway

Every 4 and 5 star hotel ive stayed at for free

When we overnighted in the middle of nowhere in alabama and went to a sports bar at midnight. The bartender locked the door so it was just him and us and his friend, and we all got super drunk on obscure alcohols and i kicked everyones ass at pool

That time i had an emergency landing because one pilot had such explosive diarrhea that the other 2 pilots had to wear oxygen masks

When we overnighted in a casino resort in new orleans and ended up drunk on margaritas and playing blackjack with a bunch of old people at 2pm

Every little kid on my flights

Every dog i got to pet on my flights

When we were flying to nyc during julliard recruitments and half the seats were taken up by cellos

Being in airports late at night and seeing people sleep in the weirdest places because they just dont care (bathroom floors, under gate agent desks, etc)

When a woman forgot her actual baby on the plane

Woman: can i board first? Gate agent: are u special needs, active military or priority? Woman: no i just want to board first. Gate agent: maam i have 70 other people who also want to board first, im not looking for a line leader.

My very first working flight, when a man pointed to my necklace and said “is that a ball gag?” And, in my shock, i said “no, im gay”

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Me, culturally catholic, walking into a protestant church without very much images and golden stuff: OKAY WHERE’S THE DRAMA?

Me, Catholic, walking into a Protestant church with no depictions of Mary: where’s my mom

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A woman is drying incense sticks, a process in making incense. Vietnamese believe that incense is a tool to connect the living with the spirits. When people burn incense, they can talk to spirits and pray.

© Khanh Phan-Thi

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Guerlain Abeille bottle.

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Marble. Roman copy after a Hellenistic original of the end of the 3rd cent. BCE (restored with head of modern work). Inv. No. MC 299.

(vía Drunken old woman. Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Gallery.)

This statue it’s the very representation of decadence. The “drunken old women” became a popular character in comical plays: She was a prostitute, matchmaker, witch and drunkard. This made her a perfect comical character. But what we see here is not comical at all. From a modern perspective, it’s a tragic situation: She is a beggar, almost naked, drinking on the streets while hugging a huge wine bottle. But seen with more caution, that bottle is ridiculously huge and its decoration is so exquisite it could cost lots of money, her hair is combed with care and kept behind a bandana-like fabric , her feet still have their sandals…there’s overall a sensation of strangeness, who is she? why is she drinking? is she a beggar?

Well, we’ll never know. I don’t think the author were trying to make a portrait of a commoner old lady. Sure, beggars old women with alcoholic problems existed in ancient times, but I believe here the author is not taking a real-life personality (even for late-hellenism standards, that would be very avant-garde), the nearest thing they could do is portraying theatrical characters. And that’s what she is: Just a character. Some specialist speak about an “exemplary statue”: This is, a statue that reflects the consecuences of bad habits. Others speak about a “cruelty treatment of indigence”, like an old woman who is sculpted just to laugh at. I don’t agree: Being a character comical in its nature, the statue is just a representation of a non-existent thing. Even more, if we can agree, the author’s naturalistic treatment “humanizes” the character so much it makes us believe could have been a real person. There’s not cruelty but a deep humanization of a “comical cliché character” as it was in the ancient world.

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I think sometimes tumblr needs to stop spreading this kind of shitty reasoning without proof. We know Jesus WAS NOT WHITE but ethnically semite, but making fake assertions because hey yes,  it’s misinformation at it finest...Like, the reason Jesus is white it’s just because he is usually depicted as the majority ethnic group since medieval ages, not thanks to a renaissance prince. You can see Pantocrators and christian art since 1000 A.D. depicting him as a white common man. Just need to make a bit of researching, guys...

Also, Santa Claus comes from the story of St. Nicholas of Bari, who was born in Turkey, so he could OR couldn’t be “white” (whatever this means to americans, cause the conception of “whiteness” it’s not a thing in europe-like italians, spanish and greeks are as white as germans or english- and that’s what annoys me cause Cesare Borgia was spanish, so he wasn’t even white for americans standards??). He could also be just...you know, tanned-skinned. Like...mediterranean standard guy. Sometimes I just hate tumblr cause american activism (mediterranean people= non-white).

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Anna Karenina & Alexei Vronsky in Anna Karenina. Vronsky story (tv mini-series, Russia, 2017)