これは秋の夢です。 24 — I love haiku poetry and etchings and so on. Français and 日本語. Dylan
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I was briefly into the occult when I made this account years ago — now I just love Reason. (but the occult is still cool, aesthetically speaking)
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The past of a foreign country is, uh, a foreigner country
Jun 10
Guys I can't stop thinking about this... The past is a foreign country, but it's even more than that. I genuinely don't know how one can confidently utter moral condemnations of things in the past when we literally have nooo idea what their internal states were like.
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This could make a great novel.
My Year Of Rest And Waiting At A Roadside Outpost Taking Care Of A Chud Lioness And Sending Desperate Pleas Including A Painting.
Could be like Chaucer/Decameron/1k 1 Nights, w them hearing the stories of various travelers along the Silk Road.
Jun 11
In 1483, the Timurid Emir of Samarkand, Sultan Ahmed Mirza, sent two rare lions as a gift to the Ming Emperor. Previous embassies had also brought lions as gifts, which the Chinese court found useless and expensive to keep. So, when the envoys Paluwan and Hoja Mahmad arrived at the border with the lioness Hasinah (Beauty), they were stopped and left waiting for months. During that time, they commissioned this near-life-size painting which they sent with their pleas to the imperial court.
If you zoom in, you can find their names in gold Chinese characters. There are also verses by the Emperor at the top along with the date of the event and the imperial seal.
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It was the right and good thing to do at that time. I like Rockwell a lot
A time calls for some number of sorts of spirits to balance it. Our time calls for one and this time called for one
Jun 11
It’s awesome how Rockwell was a gigalib on civil rights issues, chuds can’t be allowed to have nice things
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Nearly every problem we’re seeing in our culture is downstream of the decline in reading. The fact that only 13 percent of kids read for pleasure is a nationwide emergency. There is no more pressing issue than getting kids back into reading.
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