ego dormio et cor meum vigilat

Even the person you despise the most is created in God’s image

But they choose to give up on God's gifts. They using their free will to cause harm to others.

They are still made in the image of God

They also are beloved by him. Pray for them, and try to love them

@historian-in-pearls

you've heard of faithful translations now get ready for unfaithful translations where i'm constantly cheating on the text i'm translating with another text that i find more interesting

@ecceagnesdarling

netflix adaptations of classic literature are genuinely my personal hell

voice of someone who just finished reading a book that was published 70 years ago: does anyone ever think about the parallels between cathy and abra in east of eden. does anyone talk about abra in a way that's not just reducing her to a 'good wife good woman' role. can we talk about the women in a way that's more nuanced than either "cathy evil" or "john steinbeck was a misogynist and that's why he made cathy evil"

it is with a clenched fist shaking in the direction of the nearest #litbro that I must say that east of eden is indeed a heater. kinda outselling all the bible fanfic that's been published; hemingway could never, dante is shaking, milton only good as inspo for lucifer paintings. the first 8 chapters went absolutely bonkers omg, "a time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy --- that's the time that seems long in the memory. and this is right when you think about it. eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. from nothing to nothing is no time at all" just being some fadeaway sentences is wild and there's like 12 of them per chapter...

anyone else thinking about charles trask hiring a woman to clean his house top to bottom in anticipation of adam trask returning home from the army and charles himself sleeping in the shed to "keep the house clean for adam" or just me and john steinbeck

so does anyone feel violently nauseous during that scene where alice is cleaning adam up after charles nearly beats him to death and even though she's a woman of few words she's telling him about how charles isn't that bad of a kid and he leaves her little gifts everywhere secretly for her to find even though it's been adam the entire time.