Clidi

Qui prier au fond de cet univers fané ?

[Überkierkegaard @UberKierk]

Tarkovsky quoting Tao Te Ching

[The sunny side of Franz Kafka @AmschelKavka]

I ride my motorcycle a lot, I swim a lot, and I spend long hours lying naked in the grass by the pond.

Franz Kafka, 1907.

[Clidi @clidihd]

just because the contract has different terms & conditions for different parties, it doesn’t mean it cannot be breached.

it’s a fairly simple distinction, & it’s a bit disingenuous to keep conflating the two to try to make a point

[Clidi @clidihd]

many women are likely to experience this type of heartbreak at least once in their life, after which they’ll never be the same.

profound disillusionment can be as transformative as it is instructive

[Clidi @clidihd]

Amanda Miguel – Él Me Mintió
https://t.co/bQUEDBI4Lw

[Clidi @clidihd]

truth of the matter is many men wouldn’t know what to do with love & devotion, & women have started to catch on.

(I suspect many have always known, but in the past their hands were tied due to financial constraints)

[Clidi @clidihd]

I do not consider myself a feminist (lol) but can you blame women who turn cynical if more often than not their feelings are met with callous carelessness, ego trips, ingratitude, & often even scorn or violence?

[♡ Honey ♡ @rawmilkhoney]

If it’s one thing I know for sure it’s that I will never in my life let another man break my heart again

[Clidi @clidihd]

@UberKierk I like Beauvoir, though I would certainly not call her an existentialist first & foremost (her work is important for different reasons imo)

[Clidi @clidihd]

even complete subversion of the myth CAN be done effectively if you have the skillset needed to pull it off.

but flattening it, for the sake of ideological conformity, or worse, cheap political revisionism, only serves to discredit the work &, in an ideal world, the artist too

[Clidi @clidihd]

a good reinterpretation requires craftsmanship, mythopoetic intuition, artistic vision, a certain reverence to the spirit of the original myth.

you make changes insofar as you try to say something substantial or glean new insights into human nature/reality

[Claire Lehmann @clairlemon]

The Odyssey is a long-form poem about a myth. It has a long history of being reinterpreted by artists, directors, & translators. Orson Welles cast Eartha Kitt as Helen of Troy back in 1950. Today's critics are culturally illiterate buffoons.
https://t.co/yrv1sgZOxW

[Syd Steyerhart @SydSteyerhart]

The Odyssey is an ethno-religious retelling of a particular people's customs, values, beliefs and aspirations. It was no less significant to the Greeks than the Bible is to us today, and it served the same purpose.

It is not some fantasy story for modern slop artists.

[Daily Lindy Effect @LindyEffect]

Leopardi

[Clidi @clidihd]

unlike the emotionally distant mother, who was overwhelmed & later hanged herself out of grief.

(this is not to say Stannis didn’t experience grief, but his was subdued to other priorities)

[Clidi @clidihd]

Stannis Baratheon was a (relatively) just & honorable, if austere, man who also loved his daughter, & was the reason she was alive in the first place.

when push came to shove though, he was the one who didn’t flinch when the Red Priestess sacrificed her to the Lord of Light

[Clidi @clidihd]

one of those sleep-deprived days I should refrain from speaking (posting) altogether

[Clidi @clidihd]

not to mention how he treated Chryseis, & later Achilles. he almost cost the Greeks the war because of his wounded ego

[Clidi @clidihd]

there’s little that is complex, or even heroic about Agamemnon.
he’s the quintessence of male vanity, so consumed by ambition & hubris he gave up his beloved daughter in the cruelest way imaginable—she was to be “married”—in exchange for everlasting glory(the highest Greek ideal)

[Paul Krause @paul_jkrause]

Agamemnon. Great, tragic, complex, "hero" who deserves his own movie. He is a fascinating character. In fact, I dare say he is the most fascinating character. Sacrifices his daughter. Steals Briseis from Achilles. Returns home. Murdered by his wife. In the underworld w/Odysseus.

[Clidi @clidihd]

typos are so much more humiliating than poor arguments. they basically make whatever it is you’re trying to convey a moot point

[Clidi @clidihd]

noticed a typo in an old post a few days ago. still haven't decided whether to commit seppuku or let it slide

[Clidi @clidihd]

Vaçe Zela – Në shtëpine tonë
https://t.co/WQvlP9Rktr

[Clidi @clidihd]

you cannot eradicate suffering without also abolishing the more redemptive dimensions of the human experience in the process (joy, love, wonder, purpose etc).

a Creation without its shadow is just a candied carcass