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Ovid 8 AD

Metamorphoses

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Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube

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when w. h. auden said “evil is unspectacular and always human” and ursula k. leguin said “this is the great treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain”

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old vinyls or old books? fairies or mermaids? disney or ghibli films? croissants or baguettes? love letters or mixtapes? little women or pride and prejudice? art history or astrology? lorde or taylor swift? spring or winter? vanilla or lavender?

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“I am someone who thinks and feels much – more than is reasonable. And that is all.”

— Virginia Woolf, from Moments Of Being: Unpublished Writings

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Okay everyone loves to dunk on Edmund for selling his siblings out for Turkish delight specifically but consider:

1. He’s been living on WWII sugar rations

2. Lokum is a sweet that lots of people eat and enjoy, it’s just not part of western confectionary, and something about people making fun of it rubs me the wrong way

3. Selling out your siblings for candy is a bad call no matter what the candy is

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bilbo baggins gets away with talking an absurd amount of shit for a guy who comes up to most people’s knees & looks like he was born sitting in an armchair smoking a pipe in a dressing gown and slippers

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A water damaged copy of “Alice in wonderland” which grew fungi. Photo : Igor Siwanowicz

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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE  — 2005, dir. Joe Wright

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F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925

The Great Gatsby

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John Webster 1613

The Duchess of Malfi

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A woman enters an ancient medieval church that is carved into solid rock in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Lalibela is famous for their monolithic rock-cut churches. The churches themselves date from the seventh to thirteenth centuries, and were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978. Steve McCurry.

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Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (1712-1793) fue un pintor de vedute (pintura de paisajes) veneciano. Está considerado entre los últimos practicantes de la clásica escuela de pintura veneciana.

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Thomas Malory 1485

Le Morte d’Arthur

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Louisa May Alcott 1869

Little Women

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