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Introduction to The Iliad, Emily Wilson

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Tetsuo: The Iron Man [鉄男] (1989), dir. Shinya Tsukamoto

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David Cronenberg and William S Burroughs on the set of The Naked Lunch (1991)

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Charlotte Brontë, from her novel titled "Jane Eyre," originally published in 1847

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Theyre sending me to da foppish dandys effeminate school for pansy boys

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Are you righteous? Kind? Does your confidence lie in this? Are you loved by all? Know that I was, too. Do you imagine your suffering will be any less because you loved goodness and truth?

— A Japanese soldier character in The Thin Red Line (1998) directed by Terrence Malick. The film is based on the 1962 novel "The Thin Red Line" by James Jones which was originally published on January 1, 1962 (via Wait - What?)

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Happy birthday, Terrence Malick! [Nov. 30, 1943] 🌿 · Badlands (1973) · Days of Heaven (1978) · The Thin Red Line (1998) · The New World (2005) · The Tree of Life (2011) · To the Wonder (2012) · Knight of Cups (2015) · Song to Song (2017) · Voyage of Time (2016) · A Hidden Life (2019)

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unfortunately i could never be nonchalant because i am not well in the head and also my soul is on fire

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bruised knuckles. btw

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before the teeth

(nature chews on me)

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Wondering how to directly support people in Palestine right now?

Check out this recently published (July 25th, 2025) guide, which lists the names, info, and links to several known and vetted mutual aid initiatives and groups! They're helping provide and distribute aid and assistance to each other, on-the-ground, NOW.

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Ahh… nothing like a smoke to ease your cold. Sold in the 1940s, Marshall’s Med. Cigarettes were marketed for minor bronchial and throat irritations due to colds.

“In the early to mid-20th century, cigarettes would be produced with medicine in them and given to people with asthma and respiratory issues as a way to get the medicine into their lungs,” says Katherine Ott, curator in the Division of Medicine and Science at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History

One of the active ingredients was cubebs, an herb said to help loosen mucus along the respiratory tract.

Read about other historic cold and flu medicines that we can all be glad are no longer prescribed on Smithsonian Science

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do you ever just suddenly feel the weight of more years of exhaustion than you’ve been alive

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Minotaur, Paul Reid (2021)

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I was looking for references and stumbled across a series of paintings from 1930s by Soviet painter Alexander Samokhvalov called "The young women of metro construction"

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