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Just what I want to get done today

Start reading Maurice

Read that monograph on Forster's short narratives

Start reading Spenser

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wow

Eurydice to Orpheus

eurydice’s silence is resounding. you can put anything in that emptiness. —@finelythreadedsky

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Clodius? Clodius.

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this delicate thing has my whole heart now

It doesn’t look that exciting, but this linen is from the New Kingdom (ca. 1492–1473 B.C.)

Thinking about it for too long makes me feel absolutely insane.

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Do not, please, do not weep for me, and do not so ominously follow me As I go to the struggles of unfeeling war, Mother; For I am not free to put off death.

Vergil, Aeneid XII.72-74 (via thoodleoo)

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Embroidered Book Covers, 15th-17th centuries

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Romanticizing my boring day as an English major

24/03

Continue to read Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean

Start reading Persuasion (a re-read for class)

Read “Lycidas”

Prepare for the Italian lesson discussing Hermann Broch’s La Morte di Virgilio

Read Yuri Tyanianov’s “The Ode as an Oratorical Genre”

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A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.

Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean

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so beautiful

Wilhelm pantomime costume design (1890-1910) PNGs, part 3

(from: vam)

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Anonymous photographer Antique Head of Ariadne, Museo delle Terme, Rome ca. 1880 marble Victoria & Albert Museum

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Dream, oh dream! As long as we are at our versing we do not go away, as long as we remain steadfast in the interrealm of our night-day we present one another with every dream-hope, with all longed-for communion, with every hope of love, and therefore, my little brother, for the sake of that hope, for the sake of that yearning, never again depart from me.

Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil

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pretty green book covers

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A bouquet of flowers for Antoinette

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lol we try hard dealing with the archaic smile

It’s not achilles but the archaic statue of the fallen Trojan warrior of the pediment of the temple of Aphaia on Aegina is my favourite because it’s so ridiculous:

He’s just chilling with the archaic smile and weird leg cross. Just casually shot.

Photo credits:

The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth, Filippo Albacini (1777–1858), The Wounded Achilles. Marble, 1825.

Stephen Zucker, Dying Warrior, West Pediment, Pediment Sculptures, Temple of Aphaia, Island of Aegina, c. 490-480 B.C.E.

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Angeli Laudantes, 1894, Edward Burne-Jones

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may i present you

penguin pingu classics

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Currently re-reading Lord of the Flies...

The absent-minded leader calling for a meeting