January 2011
13 posts
“At one stupendous evolutionary moment in pre-history, one of nature’s creatures...”
– Owen Lee, author of Wagner’s Ring: Turning the Sky Round
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Gankutsuou
I’ve become so obsessed with this anime, Gankutsuou. It’s an anime version of The Count of Monte Cristo, but that’s not it’s selling point. The show samples real-life patterns overtop its animations, creating multiple planes of movement. It’s so beautiful!
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Cicero SMASH
“I do not think the gods delight in ambrosia or nectar or Hebe filling the cups and I do not listen to Homer who says that Ganymede was carried off by the gods for his beauty to serve as cup-bearer to Zeus. Homer imagined these things and attributed human feelings to gods: I had rather he had attributed divine feelings to us.” - Cicero, “Tusculanae Disputationes”
