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Oh husbant… you spend too much time infiltrating Gotham’s organised crime circles and enacting your great revenge plan instead of getting a real job… now we are homeless…

Recently I've not been having the time to read as much as I would like (woman is surprised that academically straining program she willingly enrolled in is indeed academically straining). But so far this book has been quite interesting, I especially enjoy the way in which intellectual discussions between characters are allowed to take place in mundane settings without the need for some upholding grandiose environment

finally doing this and I’m certain that I’ll either adore it or grow bored of it after 100 pages

ah shit… here we go again

Duras a une manière avec ses mots qui me fascine… je ne peux pas expliquer ‘quoi’ concrètement…

‘Since it is undoubtedly beyond the powers of a mere mortal to remember the expression given above for curl F in Cartesian coordinates [Equation (III-7b)], it is fortunate that there is a mnemonic device to fall back on.’

I feel like I’m reading the transcript of those 8 hour long ‘the truth about the great goddess and how the masculine and the feminine battle within the realm of the material’ video essays whose accounts’ names are probably something along the lines of ‘The enlightened sage’ and have some random grandfathers in their comment section talking about how leftism is behind the fall of the west

‘Arjuna,
among all beings, I am the seed.
There is no creature,
moving
or unmoving,
that would be without me.’

‘Son of Bharata,
beings have beginnings
which are formless,
and middle states
which do have form,
and deaths which,
again, are formless;
why would one grieve over this?’

For now this has been such a captivating piece… I am not someone that usually enjoys biographies but honestly the way the author is able to mention throughout the different chapters some of the books Oppenheimer was reading at the time makes this all the more immersive…

save me Lara Alcock… Lara Alcock… Lara Alcock save me…

Description of various Mediterranean female deities (mainly Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian) with motherly (/creational) facets to their being. Most of these divine variations possess also some element of sexual promiscuity which prevents the possibility of eventual transformation into the image of the Virgin Mary (possesses both the motherly, the divine but also the strictly virgin aspect).

Interesting introduction to the conceptualisation of the Virgin Mary within southern and eastern Christian movements, developing upon both Catholic and Orthodox perceptions of Mary's possible postpartum virginity, exploring the presence (or lack there of) of indications towards Mary's possible divine status and different forms of worship between these varying sects.

my calculus lectures have allowed me to meet a math major (stay away from those) that not only likes VNC but also has the entire set of the French editions, so I’m finally picking these back up since she’s lending me hers!!…perhaps… perhaps the British do have some redeeming qualities…

why is this… low-key boring…

sometimes I forget that vanitas no carte is not just Vanitas and Noé going out to coffee shops and eating sweets but there is actually an underlying plot and conflict to it all lmao

Even though I can read Italian nearly fluently I still find my speaking skills absolutely detestable and since I’m thinking of taking some classes next semester I might as well start now, wish me luck

getting myself out of a reading slump by studying for next semester :')

love the fact that my favorite Shakespeare play is considered Camp according to Sontag

"You’ll have no delivery
From death, you fool, if we should meet in war."

goddamn. (this is directed to a literal son of Ares btw)

‘E mesmo tristeza também era coisa de rico, era para quem podia, para quem não tinha o que fazer, tristeza era luxo.’

Changed from my English translation to the original Portuguese edition and when I tell you that the fluidity of her writing is so much more enticing in her native tongue>>

This has the word count of your common ao3 slowburn fanfiction, so I presume I really can’t arrange any excuses to delay its reading

at this point I have simply resgined myself into never trusting anyone that talks about books on tiktok, are you actually going to look me firmly in the eye and tell me this is the most 'shocking' and 'disgusting' book you have read? open a textbook about the feudal life of the peasantry, common open it

“Such is the nature of both death and eroticism. The one and the other in fact conceal themselves: they conceal themselves at the very moment
they reveal themselves.”

“the object of laughter and the object of tears are always related to some kind of violence which interrupts the regular order of things, the usual course of events.”

Though I always find Battaile’s ideas a rather rich source of themes for reflection, I always find it quite disheartening that his writings took place during a period where animal life and its intricacies were disregarded as inferior to that of man which leads to rather erroneous conclusions in his part when related to animal biology and behaviour