Ξάνθος

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter…

[Ξάνθος @rose_umberto]

>Reading Thoughts on Machiavelli
>In chap 1 n46 Strauss refers to NM letter to Vettori January 13 1514
>You bash head in wall because you can’t find that letter
>You realize he’s actually referring to letter from January 31 1514
>Next footnote refers to Fröhliche Wissenschaft....

[Centennial Rye @CentennialRye]

@profgoose RIP Hampshire College, the alma mater of the two lead characters in The Last Days of Disco by @whitstillman

[Ξάνθος @rose_umberto]

E sarà mia colpa, se così è?

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Ci lascia a 91 anni Giorgio Armani. Con la sua eleganza, sobrietà e creatività ha saputo dare lustro alla moda italiana e ispirare il mondo intero. Un’icona, un lavoratore instancabile, un simbolo dell’Italia migliore. Grazie di tutto.

[C.P. Cavafy @CCavafy]

“When an August dawn wakes over you…”

– C.P. Cavafy, “Ionic”, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.

#poetry #cavafy

[Ξάνθος @rose_umberto]

@zriboua Memoirs of Hadrian, Yourcenar.

[Tancredi @Tancredi777]

Wallace Stevens is the true heir to Heraclitus, Plato, and Nietzsche. Send tweet.

[Ξάνθος @rose_umberto]

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

[The Himālaya Dispatch @himdispatch]

'Sacred Himalayas', Nicholas Roerich, 1933.

[Ξάνθος @rose_umberto]

@stargazer3100 https://t.co/cSdjA0ir6a

[C.P. Cavafy @CCavafy]

“You will find no new lands, you will find no other seas.”

– C.P. Cavafy, “The City”, translated by Rae Dalven.

#poetry #cavafy

[Ξάνθος @rose_umberto]

@songbird_sorrow a sublime read

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

“In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.”

―Thomas Mann

[Classic Alternative @altclassicmusic]

Joy To the World

[Ξάνθος @rose_umberto]

There are so many dawns that have not yet broken

[Ξάνθος @rose_umberto]

@particularwill Ronna burger has a great essay

https://t.co/MqCVNUvCUt

[Ξάνθος @rose_umberto]

Done with finals—now we do a little Stendhal Promenades Dans Rome reading. Is this allowed?