Autistic, ADHD, bi, enby, they/he, GenXer
Started #reading Circe, by Madeline Miller.
A sacrifice was the one recognized occasion for consuming meat in the diet of the Greek (but not Roman) cultural area. Some people took the context very seriously. In the Imperial period, we have recently learned, the servants of Meidon ate ‘unsacrificed meat’ and poor Meidon was struck dumb by the local god, Zeus Trosos. He only recovered his voice three months later after a dream had told him to put up a monument to the incident. It turned up recently in Pisidia. While Paul’s Gentile Christians were being told to avoid meat offered to idols, Meidon and his pagan servants were learning from hard experience to eat nothing else.
“Zeus thunders and the world blinks twice and you get to your feet again and try to keep going.”
RIP Seamus Heaney. Read our 1997 interview with the Irish poet and Nobel laureate here.
Lovely photo, too.
Evansville Press, Indiana, February 5, 1912
it’s a leap yeap
My nightmare: making a typo that people are still talking about over a century later
Happy leap yeap!
The typo heard round the world
Pickle breakcore
At first I thought he was using a pottery wheel, and was impressed as hell.
wtf is going on with Tumblr at the moment? They seem determined to burn it all down to the ground
Hotel Annabella,
Balatonfüred, 1970. From the
Budapest Municipal Photography Company
archive.
