Maithili G

this world being dangerous enough as it is, I shall drink still deeper from the Pierian spring

[Kurwenal @dagodubnos]

The Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad in costume as Sieglinde
outside the Festspielhaus during the performance of Richard Wagner's
"Die Walküre" at the Bayreuther Festspiele, August 17, 1934.

[𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚝 @rawatthekiid]

in the confessions (confessiones), augustine reflects on his estrangement from god and himself, “i had departed even from myself, and could not find myself. how much less could i find you?” (ego autem et a me discesseram, nec me inveniebam; quanto minus te?). (5.2.2)

[Maithili G @monkoxcrossing]

@gregthesorcerer the standard English terminology for that is 'courtesan'

[Maithili G @monkoxcrossing]

this, alas, is so

[temple runner @misscalcula]

wanting anything is a humiliation ritual

[RobertAllenPoet @RobertAllenPoet]

Anne Sexton died on this date in 1974. What an incredible poet.

[Maithili G @monkoxcrossing]

@roryisconfused we know that a rat king is at the top of the rats' social structure, but not how large the structure is. for a rat baron, we know both that the structure is large and that they are very near the top ot it.

[Maithili G @monkoxcrossing]

@roryisconfused https://t.co/lsMP2Gzr4J

[Southbound Review @southbound_rev]

https://t.co/Zrs18r98aO

| Issue 2 of Southbound Review is out ! - The larger conversation over the recent Devadasi controversy...

#southboundreview #indianliterature #devadasi

[Maithili G @monkoxcrossing]

@KJVnocontext I was once told that righteoussness/cry is a fine pun in Hebrew

[Maithili G @monkoxcrossing]

everything is itself, and not another thing. unless, of course, all is B-

[jon repetti @pourfairelevide]

ok he did kinda go off with this one

[Maithili G @monkoxcrossing]

@ira_sybil alles, was ist, endet 🫡

[Bret van den Brink @BretVDB]

“So while thy beauty draws thy heart to love,
As fast thy virtue bends that love to good:
But ‘Ah,’ Desire still cries, ‘Give me some food!’”

—Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella 71

[Maithili G @monkoxcrossing]

even more histrionic than the original. musically speaking Mahler is YA Wagner.

[Emir Han @RealEmirHan]

Bradley Cooper spent 6 years learning to conduct just 6 minutes and 21 seconds of music for this scene.. only to lose to Cillian Murphy in Oscars.

[Maithili G @monkoxcrossing]

@ira_sybil habet acht

[Maithili G @monkoxcrossing]

@roryisconfused I believe Le Guin's Steering the Craft is good. I gave a copy to my sister, who seems to get much from it.

[Further or Alternatively @FurtherOr]

"... so little is known by English men and women of the glories of English architecture. The ruins of the Colosseum, the Campanile at Florence ... are ... familiar as household words, but they know nothing of the glories of Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire. ..."

[Maithili G @monkoxcrossing]

@MattZeitlin how many commtted leftists read *Trollope*, of all authors?

[Kurwenal @dagodubnos]

Alfred Jerger as Wotan and Käthe Rantzau as Brünnhilde
in Richard Wagner's "Die Walküre", Vienna, 1924

[Maithili G @monkoxcrossing]

@davosinskagos excellent observation

[Maithili G @monkoxcrossing]

@roryisconfused this is true, and having known several analytic philosophers in my time I suspect this is why they like Austen so much