Do You Like Mechs?

Ffs, the period bit could have been a 30 rock sketch

“You do not come to Euphemia only to buy and sell, but also because at night, by the fires all around the market, seated on barrels or stretched out on piles of carpets, at each word that one man says– such as “wolf,” “sister,” “hidden treasure,” “battle,” “scabies,” “lovers,”– the others tell, each one, his tale of wolves, sisters, treasures, scabies, lovers, battles. And you know that in the long journey ahead of you, when to keep awake against the camel’s swaying or the junk’s rocking, you start summoning up your memories one by one, your wolf will have become another wolf, your sister a different sister, your battle other battles, on your return from Euphemia, the city where memory is traded at every solstice and every equinox.”

Every once in a while i love diving into your iwtv tag. thank you for understanding those characters the way you do and posting your insights about it. It’s nutrients for me, a guy who is insane about those vampires

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Imagine being Anais Mitchell and writing a song about the rhetoric of fascism so incisive and prescient that 10 years later an actual fascist would use that exact rhetoric down to the highly-specific phrasing in his presidential campaign. But also it took 10 years for the project you wrote that song for to move from living room shows to concept album to theater workshop to off-Broadway to Broadway, and its Broadway debut ended up coinciding with said fascist's successful bid for the presidency, and now it looks like your song that you wrote in 2005 is a super unsubtle reference to that one particular and highly-topical politician.