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18 giugno 1922, T S Eliot a casa di Virginia Woolf per la lettura del The waste land
#the waste land#waste land#la terra desolata#la terra guastata#tseliot and virginia woolf#virginia woolf#t s eliot#thomas eliot#thomas stearns eliot#foto#photo#eliot#woolf
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Ah yes the holy trinity of the medium Town America Sheetz, Planet Fitness and Dollar General.
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T・S・エリオット「荒地」 荒地遊びの記録
まずはじめに言葉があった
Kentucky Route Zeroの解説でモダニズムや詩を扱うにはやっぱりエリオットは読んでおきたいなと思ったのと、単純に「『荒地』を読んだことのある人」になりたかったので。
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岩波文庫、岩崎宗治訳、2010年8月刊行
難解な詩ということで構えて読み始めたけれど、荒地の前の初期の詩は、意外と近代文学青年の懊悩という見慣れたテーマが基調にあって読みやすい。いろいろ含みのある詩なので、訳注・解説がコンパクトかつ充実してるのはたいへん助かる。
荒地以前の詩も収録してくれているので、肉体・精神の不全感や自分にはどうにもできない情欲への羨望と怒り、反転した『女性』への失望と不信みたいなのが一貫して描かれてるのが理解できたのもよかった。
信ずるべきものを失い凋落する近代ヨーロッパ社会に生きる近代青年の不安とか孤独とか、それを伺いしれぬ女性への畏れや関係性の不和に重ねて見る主題は、いまの自分にとって多く共感することは難しいけれど、作り込まれてる言葉を読めるのはいい。
翻訳のいかにもすこし古い文学青年という文体のおかげでわかりやすいところもあり、ちょっと野暮ったい印象もあり、ほかの翻訳でも読みたいかも。でも、ところどころとても印象的な一節があって気になる。
四月は最も残酷な月、死んだ土から
ライラックを目覚めさせ、記憶と
欲望をないまぜにし、春の雨で
生気のない根をふるい立たせる。
冬はぼくたちを暖かくまもり、大地を
忘却の雪で覆い、乾いた
球根で、小さな命を養ってくれた。
「荒地」 『１ 死者の埋葬』 冒頭より(岩崎宗治訳)
内容はともかく、この「荒地」という詩のよさが自分には未知数な感じ。そもそも原文で読むべきなんだろうけれど、さすがにその元気はない。
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春風社、滝沢博訳、2019年7���刊行
別翻訳者の最新版で2巡目中。
岩波文庫版よりさらに訳注と解説が充実し、こちらはきちんと意味を噛み砕いて翻訳しててよりわかりやすい。テキストそのものの印象はプレーンで、岩波文庫版よりちょっと弱いかも。
なんでこれがモダニズム詩の傑作となってるのかいまいちよくわからない。
最後の、「断片だけが自分を荒廃から支えてくれるんだ」というくだりはすごくよかったな。とてもまともには語ることはできなくて、断片でしか語りえないことを語る詩なので。
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結局気になって、グーテンベルグ・プロジェクト（青空文庫の海外版）による英語原文読んだ。
The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot
最高にいいテキスト！
言葉同士が緊張感にみなぎり、呼応しあって、エリオット個人の、凋落するヨーロッパの、逃れられない普遍の、荒廃と再生を語る。
英語という言語が持つ明快さや歯切れのよさを活かした描写と響きで、あんなに難解に見えたのにすっと言葉と意味が腑におちる。明快なのに謎めいた象徴性と多義性を湛え、重すぎる意味を相対化するような言葉遊びの軽やかさも備え、そしてなによりテキスト、言葉そのものへの賛歌である。
どんなに多重に込められた意味よりも、編まれた言葉そのものがありえない再生がありうることを信じさせてくれる。神の再生を信じさせるような詩だったんだね。
そりゃみんな夢中で読み解きたくなるし、いろんな翻訳も出るわけだ。
もちろんこう思えるのは、日本語翻訳みて丁��な訳注や解説を読めてある程度作品理解ができたおかげなので。神の再生はとにかく、ほんとに最高のテキストなので、あとで好きなとこだけ勝手に訳して遊ぼう。
英語読むなら詩形見やすいこっちがおすすめ
『四月は最も残酷な月』、ということで春に読めてよかった。
近代を語るモダニズムの嚆矢として、過去の文学を背骨としながら、象徴的な言葉で個人・コミュニティ・そして普遍について語ろうとする野心、断片的な語りなどKRZとの共通点も多い。
編集者としてエリオットの詩作を支え、本作を大きく刈り込み、余白と遊びの多い形で送り出してくれた詩人のエズラ・パウンドは偉大だし、「ありがとう、エズラ！」（敬称略）という気持ちがとても大きくなったので、Kentucky Route Zero的にも読んでよかった。
おまけの荒地遊び
原文テキスト見て作った遊び訳。趣味で散文ばかり読んでる門外漢で素人の自分が、「荒地」を理解し楽しむために作っただけで、意味の正確性・適切性はまったく保証しないので悪しからず。引用として一節だけ。
様々な大家や専門家により研究・翻訳が進められていてあまりに畏れ多いし、人に見せるクオリティではないけれど、おんなじテキストからこんなに違う文章が出てくるから、やっぱりそれだけ豊かで楽しいテキストなんだなということが伝わればうれしいです。原文のよさも少しは伝われば。
まだまだほかの人の荒地遊びを見てみたいなと思いました。
Ⅰ「死者の埋葬」よりヒアシンス娘のシーン(35,36)
憧れと恋情がいちばんみずみずしく出てる、理想化された追憶の存在、ヒヤシンス娘の一節。
She/Herなどの三人称は出てこないし、モデルとなってるのがかつての同級生や、モチーフとなってるヒュアキントスの同性愛のイメージを持ってると解説にあったのを受けて、今ならもうちょっとその面を打ち出しても楽しいかなと思ったので。
原文
“You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
“They called me the hyacinth girl.”
岩波文庫版
「あなたが初めてヒアシンスをくださったのは一年まえ、
「みんなからヒアシンス娘って呼ばれたわ」
遊び訳
「君は一年前はじめて、ヒヤシンスをくれたよね
「みんな僕をヒヤシンス娘と呼ぶんだ」
Ⅱ「チェス遊び」より詰問シーン（126-130）
神経が参ってる(と男が一方的に解釈してる)女に詰問されて、だんまりしかできず自分のダメさを吐露するシーン、この手の文芸ではすでに伝統芸能的に繰り返されてるけど、何度読んでもいい。
この前の対話（できない）シーンが緊張感高くてほんとに良い。
ずっと妻？の質問になにも答えず黙ってるのに、シェイクスピアのくだりで内心ふざけだすひどくて笑える箇所から。滝沢氏の訳注いわく、このOOOOはジャズ風らしい。
原文
“Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?”
But
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—
It’s so elegant
So intelligent
岩波文庫版
「あなた、生きてるの、死んでるの？頭の中、なにもないの？」
だが、
おお、おお、おお、＜あのシェイクスピヒアリング・ラグ＞-
なんて優雅
なんて知的
遊び訳
「あなたって生きてるの、それとも死んでるの？頭の中になにもないんじゃないの？」
でも、
O(オー) O O O これぞシェイクスピアまがいのラグじゃない
なんてエレガント
なんてインテリジェント
（おまけ）エリオット本人による「荒地」朗読
7:50あたりでエリオット本人によるOOO（オーオーオー）煽りが聞ける。
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Ⅱ「チェス遊び」より最終シーン（168-172）
閉店のご挨拶と第一次大戦による欧州終了のお知らせ、あるいは対話の不可能性。
原文
HURRY UP PLEASE IT’S TIME
HURRY UP PLEASE IT’S TIME
Goonight Bill. Goonight Lou. Goonight May. Goonight.
Ta ta. Goonight. Goonight.
Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.
遊び訳
お急ぎください、お時間です！
お急ぎください、お時間です！
おやすみ、ビル。おやすみ、ルー。おやすみ、メイ。おやすみ。
バイバイ。おやすみ。おやすみ。
おやすみなさい、お嬢さん方、おやすみなさい、かわいいお嬢さんたち、おやすみ、おやすみ。
おやすみと言うと自動的に終わるのがいい。
おやすみなさい。
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waste land 1922: delle iniziative a roma
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#Città luogo di poesia#conferenze workshop#Eliot#La terra desolata#La terra devastata#laboratori#letture#Orologio#poem#poema#poesia#reading#spettacoli#T. S. Eliot#The Waste Land#Thomas Stearns Eliot#Valerio Magrelli#Waste Land
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April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
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desmond & friends modern day assassin sequences…..I miss you……..
#specifying ‘and friends’ because I hate William Miles with my whole heart and he is not included in this sentiment#anyway vaguely this is nyc so the cops are probably wasting taxpayer money by fucking around in the subway#komiks tag#assassins creed#shaun hastings#desmond miles#this is almostttttttttttt shaundes#but I didn’t continue the dialogue far enough to make it really flirty. There’s a hint of flirting happening.#someday I’ll have to actually do a longer form fan comic to land my favorite ship AND my favorite narrative elements in the same#go (the horror and dialogues on free will and what we owe each other past/present/future & also what failure means AND-)#this ties into my second favorite relationship dynamic: clay and desmond. obvious. clay might live in my head rent free a little more than#Desmond does because that end of game reveal in AC1 is a top 10 games experience to me and I think about it all the time#ANYWAY IM OFF TOPIC NOW. desmond picks up snacks at a bodega on his way back
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This is the devil’s hole pupfish! A tiny species that lives only in One water-filled limestone cavern in Nevada. It was one of the first animals on the endangered species list. At the last count in 2022 there were 263 pupfish observed - the most in 19 years! They’re tracked pretty carefully, as their 215 square foot habitat (the smallest of any know vertebrate) is fragile and has been disturbed in the past by groundwater extraction and other human interference.
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#fish#fishes#fishblr#devils hole pupfish#icthyology#they were apparently controversial little guys in the 70s bc a family bought the land they’re on and tried to build a bunch of wells#and some agencies were like hey don’t build those here there are these pupfish#and I guess they went to court and it was a whole publicized thing and folks were getting bumper stickers that said either#save the pupfish or kill the pupfish#and the concept of being so self absorbed that you’re like I would rather a species go extinct forever than for one human family to have#wasted some money#and I’m gonna get a bumper sticker that informs you of this#is so fucking funny to me
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good omens / the waste land, t.s. eliot
#good omens#crowley#good omens fanart#gomens#the waste land#t.s. eliot#web weaving#drawings#i need to get better at drawing things in a simpler style and then just posting them
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My Grandma, who in 1947 during the post-war femine used to sneak into the fields to gather leftover grain for her starving family and once was caught by a field guard who beat her with a whip to the point that she could barely walk home, would've had a stroke upon seeing the spilled grain on the Ukrainian-Polish border.
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They need enrichment in a new enclosure. ¡Reblog and tell us why you sent them where you did in the tags!
#also considered were the backrooms the scp foundation and the underworld specifically from hades#ah well#delicious in dungeon#dungeon meshi#dunmeshi#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#pokemon#kanto region#jurassic park#twilight#twilight saga#the twilight saga#forks washington#labyrinth#labyrinth 1986#hotel transylvania#fallout#the waste land#mlp#mlp fim#my little pony#my litte pony friendship is magic#portal#portal 2#aperture science#star trek#starship enterprise#the enterprise#asoiaf
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what happened to "OF COURSE I HAVE FEELINGS! I HAVE BIG FEELINGS, OKAY? AND IT HURTS" like not everything has to be dennis the raging serial killer what happened to dennis crying with mascara running down his face and in tears over not getting a valentine's day gift from his friends
#the longer i think about this episode the more disappointed and angry i am#such a waste to not utilize the rest of the cast in this episode#instead using them to play into the most obvious metaphor that doesn't even land#this season had such a good track record until this ep too#iasip#its always sunny#its always sunny in philadelphia#dennis reynolds#text post#mine
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Why I hate Golf
This is the Takapuna Golf Course in Auckland, New Zealand.
It is in the middle of Auckland's north shore suburbs.
According to their website, they are one of the most popular golf courses in Aotearoa and have an annual visitor count of 60,000 people. They don't clarify if that is individual unique visitors or recounts, but lets be generous and say its unique visitors. 60,000, not bad.
This is Eden Park Stadium (the little square on the right) and oh look there's another golf course on the left there, ignore that one for now.
(the above two images are at the same scale)
Eden park has a capacity of 50,000 people. Ed Sheeran was here earlier this year and sold out the two nights he performed. That's 100,000 people in a weekend all in that little red square. 60,000 in a year no longer seems so great.
60,000 people per year is also only 160 people per day. 160 visitors to a golf course that is 470,000 square meters in area. Now the average property size in Auckland is 500 square meters. So the golf course takes up the area of 940 houses.
940 homes worth of land for 160 people.
And that is Auckland housing sizes. Auckland is horribly designed and very spread out. Let's instead look at Barcelona, considered one of the most well designed cities in the world.
This is Takapuna golf course side by side with Barcelona
(The scale is as close to being equal as I could get them, I don't have ArcGIS data for Barcelona so had to use google maps)
Each red square overlaid on Takapuna Golf Course is exactly 133m in height/width, the same size as each city block in Barcelona, road width included.
There are 23 Barcelona blocks worth of space in Takapuna Golf Course with room to spare. About 640 people live in each Barcelona block, that's 15000 people.
15000 peoples worth of homes and living spaces, sacrificed so 160 people can play golf in a day.
Now this is just one golf course in a big city, what's 15,000 people to a city of 1.6 million, who cares right?
Here is a wider shot of Auckland City.
Those red dots? They're golf courses.
There are 16 golf courses inside the metropolitan area of Auckland City (4 not pictured as Auckland is too spread out to get one clean screenshot). Keep in mind these are not rural golf courses out in the country, these are right beside housing developments and shopping malls. And for the record I could not find a single golf course in the Barcelona metropolitan area, you had to go out into the country before finding one.
So lets multiply that 15,000 people by 16 golf courses?
240,000 people.
With Auckland City's golf courses you could house 240,000 people comfortably with some good urban planning.
That is why I hate golf.
#For the record I'm not 100% against golf I just think if you have the time to play the most boring sport in the world#Then you also have time to drive 30 minutes out into the country side to play it#golf courses water usage is a whole other story but they aren't uniquely wasteful so thats why I havent mentioned that#golf courses in dry areas with water shortages are even worse than a waste of space and it doesnt matter if theyre urban or rural#but for golf courses in a place like auckland theyre water usage is generally fine and its the waste of land use that bothers me so#Auckland#New Zealand#Aotearoa#Golf#Barcelona#Why i hate golf#golf hate
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Pool kiss deleted scene 🫧
#the camera angle we deserve#such a waste that they deleted this one#srl look at how soft when they were slowly going down into the water#he was lowering her to his lips#Junho#Yoona#King the Land#Lee Junho#always next to Junho#It’s Junho’s season now#2pm#SNSD#I put my heart into every gifset I’ve made#if i tell my 18 year old self that 2 memebers of snsd and 2pm will making out in the future she would have punch me in the face
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it irks me the hate karin gets over her crush on sasuke because it’s always demonizing her but then when it comes to sakura’s crush it’s painted as all good and kind and not “dirty” so therefore sakura is good with bad writing but karin is gross and deserves to be hated on.
honestly you can like either or like one more or just hate them both too but trying to paint as if liking sakura is morally correct and a feminist move while karin is annoying and wrong is so weird to me. especially because if you pay attention both characters are meant to be parallels of each other that kishimoto just uses to have a girl in the group having a crush on sasuke which sasuke isn’t interested or pays attention to the advances.
“okay but karin’s crush is perverted when she talks about licking sasuke or her reactions to sasuke biting her” inner sakura literally talks about wanting to see sasuke pee? they are both odd about their crush, acting like one is worse is just having a clear bias.
the real difference is in their personality and where karin knows exactly who she is and doesn’t pretend otherwise. which makes sense why she’s the one that gets to grow out of her crush in the end since she’s more self aware
#srly every time i hear a sakura stan complain about karin its just the “our blessed lands” vs “their barbarous wastes”#mine
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Yall, its time to ramble about visual/environmental storytelling cause this is silly article is driving me insane.
I won't argue for if the game should have had more constant and involved cutscenes like Robobot or Star Allies, but what I will say is that this game is VERY rich in story through the world design. The Forgotten Land as opposed to say the Land of the Sky in TD or the entire galaxy of Star Allies is like, DROWNING in writing and narrative. It builds so much mystery and intrigue through the theming of every world and even individual levels, with exploring both how the people of the land originally lived and how it's being reclaimed by nature and the animals.
I think the closest things maybe is Robobot and Halcandra in RTDL, the former having great little designs that key you into WHAT Haltmann is doing and what makes it so toxic. Halcandra though is the ultimate grand-daddy, the contrast between it and the Lor, and Egg Engines and Dangerous Dinner is full of theming and clues about the nature and history of the planet. AND THAT IS STORY, THAT IS WRITING! Especially when compared to say Star Allies, where most of the levels of the levels are just ye average Kirby themed fluff with little to say about the Jamba or the state they've left the galaxy in.
But when you play through the casino levels of Robobot, as well as delightful theming and level design, you see that Haltmann is erecting literally the most predatory entertainment centers imaginable. When you step off the sleek futuristic Lor into the scrapyards and wastes of Halcandra, you get fun intimidating final worlds, and a good grasp on *why* the people who made the Lor aren't around anymore, and may even start questioning why Magolor made such a great fuss of dragging you to this horrible place.
Music is also deeply important to this storytelling. Each of the factories/towers erected in ever world of Robobot's theme is a remix usually of themes related to older mechanical levels, subtly clueing you into where Haltmann go their technology from. Outside the Lor rather than the comfortable motif of Green Greens is this almost comically suspicious and disoriented theme once you're stuck on Halcandra and returning to Magolor with more doubts about his words. The final level inside of the volcano house a theme that is teasing the twist to come, and the theme for fighting Landia before the big reveal is less triumphant, and more majestic and pensive. Possibly trying to evoke more hesitance than confidence, even if most people wouldn't catch on to that on a first run.
But the cooler thing, is that while Robobot has this cool theming at key levels, and RtDL does at the end, this type of shit is pervasive ALL throughout Forgotten Land. Every world and nearly every level is a unique, well thought-out set piece! You get to see abandoned towns, cities, malls, stores, factories, resorts, and an amusement park, each which serves as more than just a fun location, but a clear picture of the world and the state its in. This intent is made clearer through the music and tone that goes out of its way to not highlight the destruction of these areas but their beauty, wonder, and mystery through the eyes of an clueless animals and our favorite pink alien.
The abandoned Alivel Malls theme is a track as upbeat and peppy as what must've played over it's speakers in it's hayday, because the hustle and bustle breathed back into it by the animals and Kirby just exploring this mysterious complex is just as lively. The theme of the Everbay Coast is peaceful and sunny despite the Holine ruins because it's as part of the scenery to the animals and Kirby as the picturesque palms and sands. And Wondaria!!!!!!!!! OMG WONDARIA WHERE TO EVEN BEGIN WITH EVERY FUCKING LEVEL AND THEME IN WONDARIA!!!
THIS IS WHY I CAN'T TAKE THAT CLAIM SERIOUSLY - y'know when I cried at Forgotten Land? In world 3. Not because of a cutscene or a line of dialogue, but just from the sheer emotion the setting evoked in me. The sweet, laid-back, starry-eyed wonder that it expressed from Kirby mixed with my own sense of nostalgia being aware of what that place was, and how beautiful it was to see it rediscovered and adored by Kirby and the animals of the Forgotten Land. It evokes such a strong feeling of bittersweetness, of existential dread comforted by the knowledge that the simple joys and memories we create places like amusement parks to share will continue on as long as there is life in the world.
And unlike some of my musings about past games, this was explicitly intentional. What truly brought the tears to my eyes was remembering an interview where the devs were explaining how they were trying to keep the tone light and Kumazaki said specifically they wanted to evoke peace and beauty rather than loss.
LIKE THIS IS WRITING! This is storytelling, this is intention. It's just subtle, but not at all unimportant, and it ties into the more overarching plot. It raises the question constantly of where the people went that is answered by Forgo, and expresses the dichotomy between the simple innocence of the animals compared to the ambitions of the people who abandoned them and that is now possessing their leader. It creates stakes for Elfilis and Forgo's intentions to destroy everything so beautiful and pure about the current world, but as it absolves the current world of guilt, it puts into perspective JUST HOW LONG Forgo must have been locked away that things changed so much. And as softly as the exploits of the original people are portrayed by the game, knowing their treatment of Eliflis and Forgo as a thing of entertainment and tool for innovation is sickening placed in contrast with it.
Like back to Wondaria, the way it shows how much space travel must have pervaded the imagination and escapism of the people either before or after Forgo's arrival is insanely smart. And it gives me chills in the best way seeing Kirby run around images of cartoon aliens from a civilization who would never meet him. Of Kirby, Elfilin, and Bandana sticking their head into a cardboard cutout of an astronaut meeting an alien, with the text "wish you were here" above in a script they don't even understand. A SCRIPT THE WRITERS MADE FOR THIS GAME SO THAT THEY COULD ADD MESSAGES LIKE THAT INTO THE WORLD FOR KEEN PLAYERS TO NOTICE AND MAKE CONNECTIONS.
Like it's insane. The dedication the Hal Labs has to stuff like this is maddening! It's so sweet and heartfelt and crafty, I'm so pissed off how little respect it gets because people don't understand visual storytelling!!!!! Saying Forgotten Land is light on story is preposterous, it might just be one of the most finely crafted stories the series has had to date, and is just a really solid piece of science fantasy writing in general honestly. It is packed with environmental storytelling that drives me Up The Fucking Wall, Man.
#kirby#kirby and the forgotten land#katfl#elfilis#forgo#kirby lore#shut the heck up#media analysis#GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH (i love kirby)#im in my “writing is more than text” essay warrior era#this is part of me collecting stuff for a bigger essay though :3c i just got so distracted by this take#also i started this cause i though this article was from a bigger outlet than it was#so now i feel like my intensity is unjustified but idrc cause as i said: warrior essay era#OO ALSO I MISSED TALKING ABOUT THE LATER WORLDS#THE CITY IN WINTER HORNS FEELS LIKE A BIOME THE DELAPADATED RESORTS OF WASTES ARE NOW OASES IN A DRIED UP TROPICS-#-AND THE FUCKING CITYSCAPE OF REDGAR FLOODED WITH LAVA IS LIKE ITS OWN PART OF THE MOUNTAIN ITS SO BEAUTIFUL#its a fun twist on the typical final lava world that also gets to do double duty with evil industrial looking shit ARGFDSH so cool#tag talking
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it’s so hard to be a lover in a literature class full of haters
#this week in my modernism class we read The Waste Land and everyone wanted to litigate whether or not we should still be teaching it#but I just wanted to talk about the Hanged Man and water symbolism and Classical allusions#canon debates have their place I guess but I would choose close reading a text over that every time#just grad school things
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