@Tocharus

Working on a book. My substack is how I’ll reach out directly and tell you it’s ready.

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Joined November 2021
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You may be forgiven for thinking the Tocharians were an uncreative people. What scant literature survives is almost entirely sectarian, and almost entirely in translation. Buddhist sutras, hymns, dramas, all from India. But one. One unique creation, one original work: a love poem
𝙻𝚘𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚃𝚘𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢 🇵🇸
@Y2K_mindsetOct 19
Reactionaries for some reason think “romantic love” is some special magical thing and not as mundane, boring, and common as like “eating food”
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David Ligare might be one of the most brilliant artists alive.
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Friday night
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“Therefore strength (is) good (and) in every way the best (thing) in my opinion” —Buddhist sutra in Tocharian
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“That the inferior should be ruled is a law of nature.” —Xenophon, Cyropaedia
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@OrtgeistJan 15
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Replying to @PaulAnleitner
Homer isn't myth.
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A male leopard in Jawai shows off his battle scars
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Enemies all around is classic European fatalism with the struggle never optional arc, I’ve thought the same about ring poetry too, it hits the same nerve with the ‘beginning tells the end’ structure. You fight anyway, because that’s what makes it our story
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Dominated by Dig Dug@dominbydigdug28 Feb 2025
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Dominated by Dig Dug@dominbydigdug9 Jan 2024
There is a lovely rare Greek word τανύσφυρος "thin-ankled." Homer uses it to describe Persephone (Hymn to Demeter 2). Hesiod uses it to describe the 3,000 daughters of Ocean (Th. 365). Having thin ankles was a trait of a beautiful goddess or woman.
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Replying to @hope_pead
Americans need to recycle the libtard land acknowledgment and every morning tell each kid “you are a conqueror. This land was taken and created by sheer force and white settler colonialism. These are the tribes we subdued here:”
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I just want indestructible super civilians who are beautiful and don’t envy. Who are intelligent, with good taste and magnanimity in all they think and do. Who will bring the highest goods to this world. Is that so unreasonable?
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Do not lose your whimsy!
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He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.
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Pericles Source : sir.jack.2 on tiktok
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