Gando

Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beuté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.

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@reef_bone I'm pretty sure he was and or is part of a cult. He has interesting cultural takes sometimes. Dumb on AI, though.

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@Meredicchio I own one of those. They were bred specifically to look like little panthers.

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@chekaterror The theory is much weaker than it used to be. It's from when philology was undisputablly dominant over archeology, iirc. Very old.

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@chekaterror I assume this chart meant the second burning of Knossos. The later Mycenean palace has a destruction layer too, iirc.

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@chekaterror I guess it was made untenable. This is mostly baseless speculation but maybe Northern Mesopotamia was well positioned to weather the crisis? Though I guess Southern Mesopotamia didn't de-complexify as much as the mediterranean coast and Anatolia.

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@chekaterror Iirc, the Dorian invasion comes from Greek myth. The idea is that the Dorians displaced the Acheans we see in the Homeric epics and this is reflected in later myth. Crete spoke Doric greek so it likely was included.

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@chekaterror In fairness, there probably wasn't that much of value in Dacia, unlike here.

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@chekaterror Imperial retraction is not unheard of in the historical record, though. Rome did it at least once. Though not as totally.

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@taishopervert The pond has not so much dried up as it has been taken over by algae.

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1641

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Rembrandt, 1637.

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@reef_bone Misread the first line as "A friend who will exist in the distant-future:"

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@Plexint Remarkably, the comparison also appears —though with a wholly different meaning— in the table talk.

P. 69 and 284.

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@Meredicchio Fortunately for us the outcome has already been pre-determined by the elders of the River Plate in their protocols.

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@Xenoimpulse If you were an alternate-history fan before the internet your options were either this or shooting yourself.

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@chicodelbajio Los judios se llevaron mi rotoplas...

[Ernesto Hernández Busto @PenultimosDias]

Esto de James Laughlin sobre un Pound senil es de las cosas más hermosas que se hayan escrito sobre el poeta:

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@insurrealist If anything the opposite is closer to being true. People will assert their hyperspecific standards are timeless platonic forms and inviolable constants of human nature.

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@reef_bone Personally, I like this thing. Just some zooids, working together.

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@chekaterror Posts from Fort Worth stockyards circa 1890.