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"Since setting sail the argonauts have 1) found an island with only women (they’d killed off all their men previously) and refused to leave until Heracles told them off and 2) then proceeded to forget heracles who was looking for hylas who was caught by a nymph who wanted him (also a wife of a king hung herself because the argonauts accidentally killed her husband oops)" — Jan 24, 2026 03:14AM
"Since setting sail the argonauts have 1) found an island with only women (they’d killed off all their men previously) and refused to leave until Heracles told them off and 2) then proceeded to forget heracles who was looking for hylas who was caught by a nymph who wanted him (also a wife of a king hung herself because the argonauts accidentally killed her husband oops)" — Jan 24, 2026 03:14AM
“The Greeks, if the truth be told, were far too wise to have a consistent eschatology that presumed infallible knowledge of the afterlife. They had noted that no one ever returned from death and took the sane and sensible view that those who claimed to know what happened to a person after they died were either fools or liars.”
― Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
― Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
“He was succeeding admirably in communicating his own boredom to his audience.”
― Sketches from Life of Men I Have Known
― Sketches from Life of Men I Have Known
“Or had Howl slithered out so hard that he had come out right behind himself and turned out what most people would call honest?”
― Howl’s Moving Castle
― Howl’s Moving Castle
“No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity.”
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“You have to move back home, Andy," Hilo said quietly. "I've missed you."
Anden had been waiting to hear those words come out of his cousin's mouth for years. Now, however, he felt no great relief or happiness - only the sort of heaviness that comes from wanting something for so long that the final achievement of it is a loss - because the waiting is over and the waiting has become too much a part of oneself to let go of easily.”
― Jade War
Anden had been waiting to hear those words come out of his cousin's mouth for years. Now, however, he felt no great relief or happiness - only the sort of heaviness that comes from wanting something for so long that the final achievement of it is a loss - because the waiting is over and the waiting has become too much a part of oneself to let go of easily.”
― Jade War
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