English added by me :)
enough. i'm undooming his narrative. this time cicero has a gun
the thing about the odyssey is that at first it tricks you into thinking it's about THE man but then over the course of the poem you realize he's just A man. from the moment we see him weeping and longing for his home to the moment he sleeps in his marital bed for the first time in 20 years you realize you've been conned into thinking he's something more than he is, when at the end of the day he's just a man
the 2024 met gala theme will be ovid's metamorphosis to respect the importance of greek classicalism in fashion aesthetic principles of construction. lil nas x will be dressed as actaeon's hounds, a metaphor for the punishment of black men's existence being seen as predatory. kylie jenner will wear a crimped taffeta toga. florence welch will be in dior as medusa, veiled and weeping. she is a statement about the destruction of intent and story in the face of achronistic politics: medusa can't be a monster if she's a woman, medusa can't be a woman if she's a monster. drake wears a tailored black suit with a black tie and white shirt. seventeen different women dress as botticelli's venus in some form and rip each other to shreds in rage and divine madness, watched over by dionysus, who is dressed as jack black
funniest thing about the story of julius caesar getting captured by pirates and then demanding they raise his ransom is that he had actually been captured by pirates a few years earlier. like if that had happened to me and then i got captured a second time i would have fun with it too
reading pliny the elder is SO funny because sometimes he takes a break from the natural history to moralize about the weirdest shit. he'll be like here's the biology of dolphins, remedies derived from sea urchins, facts about the reproduction of lampreys, an essay on how the consumption of seafood has led to the moral downfall of the roman race, a historical anecdote about a particularly large squid,
this is real btw
trying to figure out the funniest crackpot stance on who is the current Roman emperor, and accepting suggestions (tenuous historical justification required)
Jeb!
