#on my mind

[lionesslover555]

She’s always on my mind 🔥💦

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[ball-slayer]

toe

[the-modern-typewriter]

Curiosity!

[vulpineknave]

so i was wondering who 50 ways to leave your lover could be about.

according to this 2011 independent article it’s not about peggy harper, who was paul simon’s wife at the time.

and in the 1972 rollingstone interview simon said peggy helped him build up the courage to leave simon&garfunkel and set off on his own, which resonates curiously with what the unnamed woman says to the narrator in the song.

the chorus is interesting too, considering that garfunkel has said that he wasn’t even aware of the simon&garfunkel breakup initially - they parted ways and that was that. simon just left, much like the narrator of the song.

the implication is there is all i’m saying 🤔

[euesworld]

"I ache for you, for you to speak to me with an untold softness in your voice.. whisper in my ear that you love me, tell me that you want some more. I ache for you, to hear the things that make you tick.. I want to know your mind, your heart, your soul.. I want to know you so deeply that I feel as if I am swimming an ocean of you. I ache for you.."

I yearn and softly burn as I ache for you - eUë

[miamiweisz]

Carla Gugino and Gaite Jansen photographed by Alexandra Arnold

[m-ilys-grave]

Today, my coffee is extra tasty. I have several streaming services to watch all my favorite nostalgic shows & movies on. All my pets are happy & healthy, & a little sleepy from getting to play & roam around outside (with supervision of course). I have leftover chili in the fridge that's gonna be even better tomorrow. My bedding is freshly washed & I had a relaxing shower.

I'm thinking today's gonna be a good day.

-M.ily

April 15, 2024 1:16 AM

[mooberryink]

2.9.24 | My days have been filled with Russian literature & bunnies. Last weekend, I went on a bookshopping date, which was lovely. During the week, I found some time to read out loud to the buns @howlandhatter, who, I'm thrilled to say, have developed a fascination for books & reading, which is how I'm choosing to interpret their mischievous propensity to nibble on my tomes. Howl seems to love the big classics (Tolstoy, Homer, etc.); Sophie goes for the comfort fantasy reads like Tolkien's The Hobbit &, of course, Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. They both love books with pictures in them. ♡ 𝑁𝑜𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑖

𝑂𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑

▪︎ Order more chew sticks; buns prefer apple & pear ▪︎ Finish up Pushkin's narrative poems ▪︎ Start on Love Letters: Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville-West ▪︎ Send letters & wrap Valentine's treats ♡ ▪︎ Plan spring hiking & road trips

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I know I haven't seen you lately, but you're always on my mind.

[teal-fiend]

magic user pred who replenishes magic by digesting prey

[i-know-you-wanna-kiss-me]

need him on my lips

[lessamazinglucy]

thinking abt her this fine morning.

[vulpineknave]

Song for the asking, Simon&Garfunkel / Blue bucket of gold, Sufjan Stevens / The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot / Everything waits to be noticed, A. Garfunkel / Still Water prose poems, 48, A. Garfunkel / Obliscence, Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter by Geoffrey Sonnabend, MJT, V. Worth / Rene and Georgette Magritte with their dog after the war, P. Simon / Two slow dancers, Mitski

[euesworld]

[tall-glass-of-nope]

Let’s talk about “the lady doth protest too much,” because it’s a phrase I heard and used before I knew the actual context. And now, after I’ve finally gotten the context, I find myself continually thinking about its intent.

When I first heard it, (and pretty much exclusively how I still hear it) it’s been used to mean “it is suspicious that this person is denying something waaaay too hard.”

Ex. “The PR people keep insisting this chemical won’t harm the environment. They doth protest too much, methinks.”

And I never questioned that usage, because it makes sense.

Then I read Hamlet, and found that the line comes from a scene wherein Hamlet is trying to trick the people around him into revealing their guilt by having actors perform a thinly veiled parody play of his current predicament as he sees it.

In his actors’ play, the character that parallels his mother is solicited by her husband’s killer — who is also her brother-in-law. And the actress in the show denies her solicitor several times before succumbing to him.

When Hamlet turns to his mother and asks what she thinks of the show so far, he’s looking for her to see herself in the part. To react, or provide some kind of recognition of what she’s done. To condemn the clearly uncomfortable situation her character is in. But all she says is

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

And I LOVE analyzing that, because my personal takeaway is like.

You know how you can write a whole poem or story about someone who’s wronged you, and they’ll read it and not see themselves in it? Yeah. (If you don’t know: this happens. A lot.)

So, whether or not she saw herself in the character onstage, My interpretation is that Gertrude (Hamlet’s mom) is revealing that her decision to marry Claudius (Hamlet’s uncle) was not a tearful and tormented decision made under coercion and duress. (Which is how Hamlet has experienced seemingly every major decision in his own life, and explains why he’d find this lack of passionate waffling to be offensive.) For better or for worse she’s revealing she just… didn’t say no to her brother-in-law.

And from there you can get into the why behind all that and her motivations and whatnot but that’s beyond the scope of what I’m trying to get into here.

“The lady doth protest too much” doesn’t read to me like condemnation of insincere delivery. Not exactly. The difference is kinda subtle, I guess.

A more parallel usage of the phrase is difficult to imagine, then, because there is some amount of self condemnation that it should invoke.

Me: “I baked you these cookies”

Them: “I shouldn’t; I’m watching my figure”

Me, knowing full well I ate five of the cookies before boxing the rest up to give: “The lady doth protest too much. Take the cookies.”