Luminous Snail

a crayfish trapper who scoffs at life and death

[Nina Power @Nina_Power_]

The hare of Boudicca zigzags at dawn

[Luminous Snail @LuminousSnail]

I just read Graves’s novel about the Argonauts. It isn’t historically revisionist like other Graves novels — Hercules doesn’t turn out to be a weakling and Medea a stellar mom like one might expect — apart from the White Goddess stuff, Graves sticks close to the standard telling.

[Luminous Snail @LuminousSnail]

A passive-aggressive annotation

[Luminous Snail @LuminousSnail]

I realized the lyrics of “Ali Baba’s camel” can be sung to the tune of “Come Healing” and now that’s what constantly plays in my head.

[Iron within, Iron without @tgstk714]

@baltic_dan I will die on the hill of the Oxford comma.

[Michael Millerman @millerman]

no one has ever confused a rabbit and a duck irl

[Luminous Snail @LuminousSnail]

@malmesburyman I was also going to say A Soldier of the Great War

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

“Nei” is the word for no among both Scandinavians and horses. This allows us to reconstruct the existence of a Proto-Scando-Hippic language, or “Old Horse,” spoken 94 million years ago, when the most recent common ancestor of Scandinavians and horses lived.

[Robert W. Rust @rwalterrust]

We should understand tintinnabuli not as a technique, but as a practice; not as something external, but as something growing from the depths of an idea, dictated by content.

[_s.a.m.e.m.e.m.e_ @st_louis_stan]

One of the worst Obama-era trends is how every local urban bookstore turned into the same "Democrat Party gift shop and I guess we've got some books too" situation

[Skely @123skely]

It’s hard to explain but in order to be a really good racist you have to low key love every race.

[ぱちこ @pikapati25]

ぴかぴかダービー🏇

[Bob Golen @BobGolen]

On foggy mornings I find it hard to tune my air guitar.

[Luminous Snail @LuminousSnail]

1943 Mars Bar advertisement

[Paul Heron @Paul_Heron_]

I wonder if the racism taboo will eventually come to be seen everywhere as quaint, old-fashioned, archaic even, like Victorian attitudes to sex and bodily functions.

[whis_pea @whis_pea]

Don't touch that, it's a load-bearing delusion.

[Otto Von Biz Markie @wittgenfine]

One of the hardest things about Catholicism is accepting Gods unwavering love for you. Very easy to accept that you are unloveable it means you don’t have to try you can give up you’re worthless but if you are always loved it means you always have a responsibility and a duty

[Marko Jukic @mmjukic]

The only way to morally justify the existence of flatulent crabby middle-aged and old people is through their support and protection of the young and joyful. An ancient truth recently forgotten to terrible, terrible consequence.

[Luminous Snail @LuminousSnail]

Roman Jakobson on 1917 (from My Futurist Years)