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Look closely and you’ll see how Regina George (Rachel McAdams actually) and Voltaire are the same person.

#get in loser we're going to cultivate our own garden #philosophy #voltaire #philosophy memes #age of enlightenment

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Thanks! I can only recall reading the last one but I'll definitely look them up ✨

5 favourite poems for the ask game? ✨

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost. It's a short poem, but it's very pretty.

It Was Deep April by Michael Field. This one was written by a lesbian couple using a pen name, I especially enjoy the last lines.

The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus. My mom is an immigrant, so this one has always resonated with me.

To the Fair Clarinda by Aphra Behn. Another lesbian poem, I like how it uses both masculine and feminine terms to describe the "lover".

The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allen Poe. It's a spooky poem, I like it.

#poetry #poems #to read list

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earlgrey24 · 5 hours

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the way that mary shelley writes loneliness and grief is so raw and intense that it's like. physically difficult to read at times.

#that sounds so good I need to add it to my list!#I've only read Frankenstein but I need to fix that #mary shelley #1800s #literature #to read tag

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Female to male patronage is the only ethical consumption of men under 18th century patriarchy

#happened to marat twice. rendering him the most ethical man of the century #<- re: prev #of course how could I forget!#jean paul marat #icon honestly #frev #1700s

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earlgrey24 · 6 hours

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In honour of the start of The Aeneid subscription – here's a painting of Aeneas and Dido from Louvre!

Notice the slay fit with the ultra short toga

#hang on I have an art idea.#<- prev #👀

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Female to male patronage is the only ethical consumption of men under 18th century patriarchy

#okay okay I should back-up #I mean there's a power imbalance between men and women in the 1700s right?#well I think woman being the one with the money kind of helps to offset that #catherine the great #denis diderot #(aka the main inspo for this cursed post)#queen Christina #rene descartes #I know that's a century earlier but shh #age of enlightenment #1700s #18th century #history memes #history shitposting #philosophy memes

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earlgrey24 · 8 hours

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In honour of the start of The Aeneid subscription – here's a painting of Aeneas and Dido from Louvre!

Notice the slay fit with the ultra short toga

#aeneas #the aeneid #vergil #virgil #publius vergilius maro #classics memes #tagamemnon #classical studies #latin #ancient Rome #historical art #art #louvre #dido #roman mythology #roman empire

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earlgrey24 · 8 hours

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can you "get a lucrative job" or "contribute to society" with a major in philosophy? maybe not but what you can do is everyone's favorite party trick that has never annoyed anyone ever which is saying "you know what kant would say about this?" and then proceeding to tell them what kant would say whether they want you to or not

#and it's so worth it! ✨#I think #philosophy #me coded #immanuel kant #can confirm that I dropped the categorical imperative in a pub discussion before

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earlgrey24 · 9 hours

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To be fair if someone deserves the C-word pass it's Caesar. You know, for his valiant efforts in Bithynia.

cant a pope (pontifex maximus) say a slur in these trying times

#gaius julius caesar #next one would be Mark Antony ofc #ancient rome #tagamemnon #history shitposting #history memes #roman republic #nicomedes #laugh rule

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#facts #unreality #history shitposting #yeah sounds about right

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earlgrey24 · 14 hours

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I fundamentally disagree with Thomas Jefferson and Mark Twain. "Never use two words when one will do," "don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do," I'm going to turn a single sentence into an essay and it's going to cost five hundred dollars per word because those are the right words to get across what I mean without ambiguity and misunderstanding, thankyouverymuch

#my approach to my thesis tbh #behold! an 'aetiology' 'epistemological' 'penultimate' a semicolon and a fifth million 'nonetheless'!#thesis era #me coded #stu(dying)

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In honour of recieving the M de Lafayette comparison, I'm dropping the mini amrev-related content from my Paris photo backlog!

the man himself aka Marquis de Lafayette (tell me he doesn't look like he's judging you); Versailles

The Siege of Yorktown painting; from the hall in Versailles where they had paintings of all the French and French-adjacent victories because of course that's a thing

Benny boy aka Benjamin Franklin; Musée Carnavalet

Benny and Louis XVI signing a treatise (sorry for the glare it was behind a glass panel); Musée Carnavalet

#american revolution #amrev #1700s #history #us history #historical art #historical artifacts #musée carnavalet #versailles #paris #benjamin franklin #marquis de lafayette #do I tag... okay here we go #1776 #1776 musical #hamilton

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earlgrey24 · 15 hours

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#for school specifically:#the great gatsby #lord of the flies #of mice and men #romeo and juliet #all on my high school finals list #literature #liked them all but still not over lord of the flies tbh

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do u all remember that sad and wet poll a couple weeks ago. though i love odysseus and want him to win at everything (including a poll about being sad and wet) i must admit that aeneas gives off sadder and wetter vibes. like he's crying about it. hes literally in tears about being half drowned

#wet t-shirt contest to settle it?#wait who said that 👀#classics #tagamemnon #odysseus #aeneas

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