I was speaking recently with a colleague about a donor, who is a poet and has written some quite profound poetry surrounding some of the work we do, and my colleague said, “Yes, she’s a kind of Lizzie Borden, I think.”
“I...what?” I said, perplexed. “She hasn’t murdered anyone, has she?”
“No, but you know, she’s reclusive, writes her poetry for her...”
It took a little while to sort it out but it turns out my colleague has, until now, believed that Lizzie Borden and Emily Dickinson were one person.
Which actually makes a kind of sense; whether or not it’s true, both women have been strongly rumored to be lesbians and had pretty unhappy family lives. The narrative arc of a sensitive, reclusive lesbian poet who one day snapped and murdered her parents is a compelling one.
I know that we strongly question whether Lizzie Borden actually did murder anyone these days, and she was found innocent in a court of law...but just imagine the archetypal murderess Lizzie Borden writing
Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves, and Immortality.
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lmaoo of course l*zz*e was a member of the temperance movement….. broads like that are always the worst
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and??? are you saying that being against the overconsumption of alcohol is somehow akin to being a brutal murderer?????
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yes
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dont bother engaging with remember1794 his entire blog is posts about the whisky rebellion of 1794 or about how much he hates women
#notborden
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look all im saying is that miss lizzie is unmarried and hasn’t had ANY suitors… and maggie is unwed too. im just saying!
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im so tired of you sapphists projecting your filthy disease onto everyone. no one cares.
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thats not what your mother said to me last night
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wait why is your blog just photographs of mens footwear
#wild ass site
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i think the uncle did it bc what the fuck kind of middle name is vinnicum
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AND hes a butcher ? might as well write murderer on his head lmaoooooooo
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bordenupdates just vagueposted about me
#hope this is ok to rb op bc LMAO
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ever since the 1850s big petroleum has been working to destroy the whaling industry, backed by the naturalists who find a problem with the hunting of whales, despite there being an abundance of the beasts in the sea! do not reject whaling – trust when whale experts say that these creatures will never be at a serious risk, don't fall for the propaganda of big petroleum
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what the fuck are you talking about. did a whale kill your parents or something.
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yes, actually.
⚓️ sunkenmen
. sorry
#sorry for your loss but your politics suck
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i don't believe that women are capable of a crime so brutal. even when judith slayed holofernes, she did so by the guiding of God. her actions were virtuous in nature. women, being of the fairer sex, who serve God as lizzie does are not capable of a murder so foul. jezebel was able to do as she did because she spurned Him.
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stop lumping sapphist lizzie defenders with these freaks.
#this discourse has been incredible #anyway block godbeliever
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the adventures of sherlock holmes my beloved
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theres nothing wrong an opium reliance.
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i always wanted to fuck her
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does anyone wanna take me to the columbia exposition :( i know its in illinois but still
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