Miriam

I can’t believe I took Italian because I liked their eighties music. That would be like if someone learned English to listen to Bruce Springsteen

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

The Holy Wounds in Medieval Cultures

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Just over 100 years ago, Jacques Lartigue photographed his partner ‘Bibi’ (Madeleine Messager), quietly reading in a sunlit corner at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Cap d’Antibes. She lives on reading here forever... (1920)

A. E. Housman

Every couple of months, a guy I was friends with in college texts me asking if he’d just seen me from a distance in this or that city. It is never the case. Not sure if he’s trying to tell me I look like every other ethnically ambiguous woman or that he misses me. Tal vez los dos

Postcard from Saul Bellow to his girlfriend in 1969: “I’m here now [in Nantucket] dealing with little boys, ex-wives, publishers, lawyers, fishhooks in fingers, sunburns, car-rentals, and my life is celibate and austere… How is the tennis?”

camus had a kitten named cigarette

@ByungChulHarden @mynameisceline @brunellaism @ryandpetersen @mindinterface @ocksportello @AlecNicedental BCH we see God has blessed you with wisdom on your twenty-seventh year, with the insight to compliment women on both their talent and apparent youthfulness (thank you for the mention, this was very sweet)

Guessing some ages here but Celine Nguyen (@mynameisceline), you (OP), Donald Boat, me, @brunellaism, Ryan Peterson (@ryandpetersen), @mindinterface, Miriam (@m_s_1964), @ocksportello, and Alec Niedenthal (@AlecNicedental)

@ByungChulHarden Happy birthday, brother 🧿

27 years under the sun today. Wild to say. Grateful to those from this app. Lots of friends made downstream of twitter, appreciative of you all

US Soldier Shakes Hands With Dog in Luxembourg, Battle of the Bulge, 1944

The Nation, 1957

Small Gallo-Roman terracotta sculpture of a couple in bed with dog lying on the sheets, 1st-2nd century AD. Gn

We used to be a proper country (classical conferences preceded by brewery tours and lectures on beer in antiquity)

@gis_vii On what planet do you have “an almost ugly face.” You’re beautiful!

maybe men care more about the body and other attractiveness scales (like how you move). also, some personality traits make women hotter in specific niches. i have an almost ugly face (0-3), but there are always rich and intelligent men interested in supporting me financially.

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