“Glenmont” and “Shady Grove” don’t mean places to me as much as they mean, “direction of my beautiful home” and “home of the rich snobby bastards who look down on me”
They don’t want you to know you can just read Homer to the rhythm of the opening to “Barracuda” by Heart and you’re basically getting the dactylic hexameter correct.
@getty_a96716 A LOT of people have what I call "King James syndrome" where they don't really care if something is accurate as long as it matches the idea they have in their head about what something "old" should look/sound like (see also, people who get mad when paintings have the yellowed
One place in DC that I’ll always be a hater for is Union Market. Like say what you will about Navy Yard, but it knows what it is. UM is just a simulacra of a simulacra, pretending the dream of 2014 Austin is alive and well in the shadow of luxury shoebox apartments.
IT'S SET IN A POST APOCALYPSE FUTURE LIKE SO FAR IN THE FUTURE THAT ALL THEY HAVE FROM OUR TIME IS ONE ELECTRONICS MANUAL BUT THEY HAVE NO FRAME OF REFERENCE TO UNDERSTAND IT SO THEY TREAT IT LIKE A RELIGIOUS RELIC AND TURN ALL THE DIAGRAMS INTO BEAUTIFUL PAINTINGS AND STUFF LIKE THAT AND THE MANUAL WAS WRITTEN BY SOMEONE CALLED LEIBOWITZ WHICH IS WHY THE BOOK IS CALLED CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ