When I was born they tossed me into a bin labeled 'No good', but then they fished me out, handed me a cane and a top hat, and told me I'd make it in show biz. I think I was tossed head first I'm so sleepy all the time, And violent. Bring me my tap shoes, I feel a song coming on
One of the best things I’ve read since October 7th, and one of Mishra’s best essays over the years. Impossible to pluck out a line or two. Just read it: https://t.co/6ZKMm0DUPQ
'The Vision of Constantine' marble equestrian statue completed by Bernini in 1670. In its niche at the foot of the Vatican’s Scala Regia, the sculpture is carefully positioned to receive light from a high window, replicating the miraculous solar vision of Constantine in 312 AD.
Not to victim blame but if you set a girl on your pacing steed and she rides off on it and leaves you palely loitering until the sedge withers from the lake then maybe you shouldn’t have set her on your pacing steed.