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I love when we totally gloss over horrifying implications

Seeking closure for middle school me who never got to finish reading back when it was a google doc 3

Wrote four pages of meta meta analysis on elephants the other day, only to show up to seminar and learn that the initial scholarship meta analysis was most likely written on shrooms, so…

I want to enjoy this so badly but ma’am, where are the characters? There’s just so much prose instead. Moreover why do I need a math degree and a working knowledge of the rules of Go to understand some of these… sure it’s a fun test of intellect but I really just want some characterization….. where are the girls………

Stray Ontario slander is crazy

None of these metaphors make sense :/

I'm actually going to finish it this time..... 6 years later

I’m actually going to finish it this time….. 8 years later

Gaslight gatekeep girlboss

Man discovers bisexuality, more news at ten

Gosh I love this scene

Once again Pacat lures me in with insane tactical prowess and then conks me over the head with a weird fixation on collars

Oh yeah, here we go again

:o

Hmmmm........... I have predictions.

I really wish he hadn’t spent 60 straight pages on French film

I want so badly to annotate this book but alas I have only a library copy :(

What a banger introduction

Next semester reading list has dropped 😩

My own research on just the Greek stuff and its parallels informs a pretty different stance for a lot of his arguments so far, so I'm a little wary of reading the rest on more modern stuff without that background research but for curiosity's sake I want to see what he has to say (tabbing the page num with this note as a reminder for future me). There are a lot of wacky interesting resources pulled in here

Oh my goodness, it’s got anxiety

Finally tracked down the right edition best I could from a jank scan on mycourses but twas worth it, I’m genuinely enjoying this translation

An added perk to Mary Renault being a history beast is that I can use this to study for my final

Don't do it Medea, you deserve better

Shoutout to my class for really getting me hyped to read this: "It's dry", "who are all these people", "contrived and bloated", "jason is just a guy". Was Callimachus valid for having beef with Apollonius? I must be informed to pick a side of the alexandrian aesthetics war. Stay tuned to find out

Right edition acquired. Time to finally finish this book after 7 years