heraclespoirot

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“He is taking a course on Marxist ideology. He says, “The only real solution is to smash the system and start again.” His thumb is caressing the most bourgeois copy of the communist manifesto that I have ever seen, He bought it at Barnes and Noble for twenty-nine U.S. American dollars and ninety-nine cents, Its hard cover shows a dark man with a scarved face Waving a gigantic red flag against a fictional smoky background. The matte finish is fucking gorgeous. He wants to be congratulated for paying Harvard sixty thousand dollars To teach him that the system is unfair. He pulls his iPhone from his imported Marino wool jacket, and leaves. What people can’t possibly tell from the footage on TV Is that the water cannon feels like getting whipped with a burning switch. Where I come from, they fill it with sewer water and hope that they get you in the face with your mouth open So that the hepatitis will keep you in bed for the next protest. What you can’t tell from Harvard square, Is that when the tear gas bursts from nowhere to everywhere all at once, It scrapes your insides like barbed wire, sawing at your lungs. Tear gas is such a benign term for it, If you have never breathed it in you would think it was a nostalgic experience. What you can’t learn at Barnes and Noble, Is that when they rush you, survival is to run, I am never as fast as when the police are chasing me. I know what happens to women in the holding cells down there and yet… We still do it. I inherited my communist manifesto, It has no cover— Because my mother ripped it off when she hid it in the dust jacket of “Don Quixote” The day before the soldiers destroyed her apartment, Looking for subversive propaganda. She burned the cover, could not bring herself to burn the pages, Hoped to God the soldiers couldn’t read, They never found it. So she was not killed for it, but her body bore the scars of the torture chamber, For wanting her children to have a better life than she did, Don’t talk to me about revolution. I know what the price of smashing the system really is, my people already tried that. The price of uprise is paid in blood, And not Harvard blood. The blood that ran through the streets of Santiago, The blood thrown alive from Argentine helicopters into the Atlantic. It is easy to say “revolution” from the comfort of a New England library. It is easy to offer flesh to the cause, When it is not yours to give.”

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Catalina Ferro, “Manifesto” (via dialecticsof)

I feel like people do need to remember that there is a very real, very painful, very human element to the word “revolution”.

(via nuanced-subversion)

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reading liquid modernity is like, this old polish man walked into my house and shotme point blank. in the year 2000

#oh zygmunt bauman we're really in it now

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i love small joys so much!!!! yes i love my coffee in my favorite mug!!! i love the sun spilling in the window!!! i love the wind on my face!!! i love my blanket over my lap!!! i love the clouds in the sky!!!! i am seeking joy in every moment!!!!

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st. george and the dragon (1908-9) - briton rivière / the vigil (1884) - john pettie / vanitas still-life (1705) - evert collier / david garrick as richard iii (1745) - william hogarth / micro sff stories tweet

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frank brunner capturimg that specific travelling brand of loneliness immsooooo oh my god

#art

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I’d divorce him too lmao

#and it's not good enough to just condescend out of the bid btw #you don't have to respond positively to every one but a 100% rejection rate's doomed to fail no matter how kind you feel you're going ab it #'i don't want to hear about it actually but i will if you really want to tell me' is.... still a divorce in the making lmao

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the self is not so weightless 

nor whole and unbroken 

remember the pact of our youth 

🏹Achilles Come Down, by Gang of Youths

#art

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?? okay?? WHICH clay pot

#sometimes works that are not academic... are worse

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i love so much how even language is cyclical and collaborative like. ... > ionian prose becomes standard > influences attic prose > attic prose becomes standard > influences administrative attic > gets influenced by ionian modernizations > influences attic literary > ... you shape me shape you shape me shape you, forever

#hand in unlovable hand into byzantium

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thinking about her (the wine-dark sea)

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many people can tell you about the future and many more about secret things in the past or present, but i think only the sirens know this is all a narrative shared by someone else

#i think tge sirens teach odysseus the plot of the odyssey and that's why he can be his own bard

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it's a little odd that so much of what has become attributed to 'clever odysseus' artfulness actually comes from other characters; not that he doesn't have his own ideas, but there always is a god or a fallen companion breathing over his shoulder and inspiring the canniness that made him famous. but still it's not a contradiction to ancient reception, that had him as a paradigm of quick thinking creativity - rather, we are the ones that, in more general interest retellings, make him plot his tricks alone. something about the modern view of 'clever' being inseparable from a sense of originality, but in an oral culture of interwoven communities, it pertaining much more more to judgment and telling good advice from bad

#no doubt there's a million papers om jstor dealing with that kkk I'll get to them soon #but why wait for research when i can say words to myself in public on tumblr dot edu?

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o dativo de terceira pessoa no português culto falado em belém FODASSE

#escrota demoníaca espero que a *** te demita em algum corte

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what a mother does for you out of obligation vs what a mother does for you because she wants to. the taste of a cup of coffee made from obligation vs. the taste of a cup of coffee made. did you raise me because you wanted to or did you raise me because you had to, because i was in your home and you thought, i have to put food in every mouth under this roof. did you look at me with love or did you look at me. did you ever look at me? did you ever see me? did you want to? do you want to still? if i asked you to love me would you laugh? would you ask me why? would you tell me to not ask such stupid questions? would you go to bed and wonder to yourself, why does she think i don't love her? i've done everything for her i've bathed her i've clothed her i've fed her i kept a roof over her head. isn't that love? do you even know? do you know what love looks like? did your mother love you? did she make you coffee? can you tell me what it tasted like?

#im

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finishing my seminar saying sorry i sound so dumb when i speak and can't connect sentences do you still think im hot

#bright side it's at least the last one of the semester #dark side next semester is in like two weeks lol

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for real DOES THOU think because THOU are virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale

#you're almost 80 your life is OVER licherally HOP OFF MY DICK

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the thing with most interpretations of macbeth and lady macbeth is that their relationship is always read as being 1 - sex; 2 - hate (each other), which is why by the end they all have then be so agressive to each other

and I just realized that the reason that never fully flies for me is that they are 3 - hate, 2 - sex and 1 - oedipus complex

#im not fully joking here the 'romabtical' center of the play is mommy issues #he wants her to guide him! he alienates her when he wants to go rogue because she could bend him if he didn't! her rebuffs work on 2 levels! #but fr it's not that I think they're some power team but for my reading they ARE a team #hand in unlovable hand they turn on each other and ruin their own lives but they willingly put hand in hand #it's just im watching pbs and the way they turn to him grabbing her hand by force and i realized Oh #You Do Not Get It simply #for the record tho i do think she was more evenly split in love/hate for him #so closer to the traditional reading she loves him and he disgusts her and he's flying of the handle and sometimes wouldn't it just be #easier to be doing it alone #but with him yea. that's his mommy (im sorry but also im right)