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knights and wizards for hw

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Also, I don't think people fully understand (because you can't unless you've experienced it) the extent to which academic training relies far more on an enthusiasm for rigor itself than for the subject you're studying. Because there's about a thousand ways your enthusiasm for the subject can be (and probably will be) ground down until there's not much left but your passion for... doing it right. Making sure your students do it right. Jumping through hoop after hoop after hoop until you get that one great result that shows you're on the right track, and that makes you want to keep going.

If it was just about enthusiasm, we wouldn't have academia. Academia works because there are enough people who are willing to let their enthusiasm be turned into a grueling, often disappointing hustle and grind and they're as serious and committed to the hustle and grind as they are to enthusiasm for knowledge. That's true rigor.

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My copy of Richard III does not have a [*Clarence dies*] stage direction so I’m going to assume that he’s absolutely fine in that wine barrel

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Portrait of a young woman with her hair pulled back, wearing suit coat, vest and turned down collar with small bow tie. Printed on photo back: "Revenaugh & Co. successor to Geo. C. Gillett, photographic & art studio, Kelley's Block, East Huron St., Ann Arbor, Mich., negatives preserved, old pictures enlarged to any size desired, and finished in ink, oil or watercolors in a superior manner."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

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okay but: happy pride to parolles calling bertram sweetheart

Bertram and Parolles are in one hell of a situationship and that's the real subplot of this play.

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Think’st thou heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell thee, Faustus, it is not half so fair as thou.

Paul Hilton and Arthur Darvill in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.

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Yesterday @skeleton-richard and I watched a deeply mediocre production of Doctor Faustus which nevertheless made the galaxy-brain decision to let Mephistopheles say a single non-scripted fuck

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Arielle Dombasles as Blanchefleur in Rohmer’s adaptation of Chrétien de Troyes’ novel « Perceval Le Gallois », 1978.

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knight who is constantly searching for a good and noble king to serve but cannot fucking find one for the life of him so he has to become the good and noble king himself.

and now all these other knights are coming around like "please let me serve you" and like obviously hes going to let them serve him thats the point of being a good and noble king but its also. very annoying. one of you become the good and noble king for once lets trade

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~ The Book of This and That, by Robert Lynd, 1915

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creating a book series called "big fear shakespeare" where i expect you to know every reference and definition and instead there are comments in the margins saying things like "what kind of idiot wouldn't know this?"

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I think kafka’s diaries are the strongest evidence that journaling is not necessarily good for your mental health

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perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.

Evelyn Waugh | Brideshead Revisited 

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Computer Graphics World (1992)

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Insane tumblr ad pull

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Two Women Kissing in Nature (b. 1859)

— by Georges Rochegrosse

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my ancient greek history professor is making us post memes weekly. i swear to god