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Cicero

@cicero-hatersgonnahate / cicero-hatersgonnahate.tumblr.com

Marcus Tullius' way of life Latin by birth, English by choice
Seeking a path in life...
The recipe I've come up with so far includes:
-1 kg of Literature
-A cup of Chemistry
-A fair deal of Nature
Seasoning: Jazz music as needed
Directions: study hard, read a lot, learn new languages and feel a citizen of the world!
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Water sprayed with a hydrophobic aerogel

“hydrophobic” so yall just gonna reblog this bigoted ass post?? with no criticism??? wow :/

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The thing is some people on this website actually made me question the sarcasm.

I know it must seem like a joke to you, but watching hydrophobia be glorified in the media when I, myself, am 70 percent water….

#AHAHAHAHAHAH i'm dying#say no to hydrophobia#how i hate tumblr phobia-doms#not to talk about tumblr fandoms#i hate you ahah#plain as that#wanna talk about sucidal pervert?#ahah forgive me i've fever of 40#and a boyfriend#that's vital info#kiss
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CLASSICAL

The old masters. I tried not to include most opera composers, since singing/lyrics interfere with concentration. Most of these playlists are at least an hour long:

Baroque (prancing through the flowers with royalty):

Classical (sipping tea with royalty while listening to their woes and gossip):

Romantic (watching a heartfelt, teary-eyed scene in a soap opera):

Impressionistic (stargazing in an open field at midnight):

Late Romantic/Early Modern (dramatically confessing your love in the pouring rain):

Modern (these get sub-categories because they’re so different):

Long, random playlists: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)

Youtube Channels:

There’s also playlists on Spotify (just go to Browse > Genres & Moods > Classical).

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CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL

Sometimes the old masters are too stuffy. I get it. Have some more long playlists from a few of my favorite contemporary artists:

Piano

Violin

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EDM

Maybe you don’t like classical at all. That’s fine, too. Here’s some wub-wub to get your mind on track:

Aggressive & Intense (dubstep, deathstep, metalstep, etc)

Chill & Melodic (chillstep, deep house, melodic dubstep)

Upbeat & Dancy (electro house, club music, more chillstep)

There are countless other Youtube channels and mixes. You can also find some playlists on Spotify (Browse > Genres & Moods > Electronic).

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INSTRUMENTAL COVERS OF POPULAR SONGS

Here are a few channels to check out if you’re starting from nowhere:

Piano

Hour-long, yearly pop playlists by oysterlovers:  2013, 2014

Yearly pop medleys by AlexTanMusic:   2012, 2013, 2014

Violin

Of course, there are countless people who don’t have huge channels and maybe only a cover or two. The search bar is your friend. And don’t forget to make a playlist!

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VIDEO GAME SOUNDTRACKS

Think about it, there are tons of people whose only job is to get the atmosphere of a game right by carefully composing the right music. And there are plenty of games with beautiful music. I love these playlists:

Long, random playlists:  (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Youtube Channels:

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MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS

Just like video games, movies rely heavily on music to set the mood for the audience. Here are some of my favorite playlists:

You can also view a full list of Grammy Award-winning soundtracks here

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ANIME SOUNDTRACKS

You’ll look like weeaboo trash, but at least you’ll be concentrating. You might need to skip a few tracks here and there if they have lyrics (that messes up my concentration, at least). That said, here’s some recommended playlists:

Long, random playlists: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Youtube Channels:

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Like I said, this isn’t a complete list but hopefully a good jumping-off point. Feel free to add to areas with your own suggestions. Have fun listening and go be productive!

#music#classical music#music suggestions#the whole world must see this post#and listen to something#thanks an awful lot to anyone who posted this#well towards the end it get a lil fandomish#but it's great anyway#music for studying#concentration
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Anonymous asked:

what do you think of the bible as a literary text?

elucipher-deactivated20151112 answered:

The Bible is difficult to talk about as a work, because it’s so vast and diverse, stitched together from poetry, philosophy, prophecy, mythology, allegory, history, genealogy, and biography. And when I think about the Bible as literature, I’m mostly referring to the King James Version (KJV), which is a beautiful and strange work compiled over seven years by forty-seven scholars and holy men, and probably the single most influential book in the English language. 

(All we know of its creation is that there were endless disputes, “many a storm of gainsaying, or opposition”; imagine shouting and pounding on tables and clergymen in ruffs and gowns storming out.) A book written by committee should be terrible and compromised, but it isn’t—it’s full of drama and majesty: “In the beginning God created the Heaven, and the Earth. And the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters…”

The translators avoided common idiom, because they knew it would quickly sound dated—the antiquated language is deliberate, as are the repetitions and heavy pauses. I love its strangeness: the odd punctuation, unexpected pronouns (“Our Father, which art in heaven”), the verbs that end in “-eth” (“in the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut downe, and withereth”), the archaisms (“yea, verily” went out of fashion fifty years before it was published; “you” was being used in the singular but the writers chose to use “thee/thou”), and gratuitous use of polysyllabic Latinate words (“iniquity”, “tribulation”, “countenance”).  

Many of its idioms endure in the marrow of our common language: sour grapes and fight the good fight and through a glass darkly and how are the mighty fallen and no peace for the wicked and the salt of the earth and filthy lucre and vanity of vanities and vengeance is mine and a thief in the night. It makes uncanny ways in your mind like Shakespeare does—and, incidentally, much of it is iambic pentameter (“the flood was forty days upon the earth”). It baffles our concepts of origin and authorship; it has so many textures and voices. The Book of Job is beautiful, vast: “Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!” The Psalms speak simply, and unfold in incantatory rhythm, e.g. Psalm 139, best known as “for I am fearfully and wonderfully made”: “If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me”. The Song of Solomon is joyful and wild and erotic—“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine”—and also very strange (“thy breasts are like two young roes that are twins”). 

You hear its rhythms and arcs of language everywhere. It’s a glorious anomaly and literature is richer for it. 

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#the bible is extremely underrated#the bible should definitely be taught at school as ancient literature#i mean it's a milestone just like the iliad and the odissey#but people are too stupid and think that reading the bible means being religious#bible#ancient literature#religion#school#teaching with some intelligence
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If Ancient Roman Authors Had Tumblr

Cicero: would put multi-paragraph rants without page breaks and piss everyone off

Catullus: would run one of those arty blogs that periodically startles you with hardcore gay porn on your dash

Vergil: would have a successful ongoing webcomic or blog and would constantly reblog and be reblogged by Horace

Horace: would post a ton of Instagram photos of wine and houses in the countryside and would constantly reblog and be reblogged by Vergil

Pliny the Elder: would post a bunch of photos of flowers, nature, and astronomical facts, and would die while attempting to liveblog the Vesuvius eruption

Lucretius: would be a nightblogger who would always post stuff like “what if when we die we become atoms and float away in the wind? Like you could be inhaling and exhaling your dead ancestors right now!”

Ovid: Would post a mixture of porn and reblogs of nature and portrait photos and would ultimately engage in massive flame wars and get banned for violating the Terms of Service

#romans#tagamemnon#cicero i'd be your most affectionate reader#if ancients had tumblr#latin#so silly
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