Silmarien

it’s martial 11.104

the basis of the poem is martial complaining that his wife wont bang him enough

heres the line in question: Phrygian slaves used to masturbate outside the door whenever the wife sat atop her Hectorean ‘horse’

according to martial, penelope is so horny for odysseus she likes to touch him even when hes asleep

I am not a Curius, a Numa or a Tatius.

Nights made happy with drink please me:

But you hurry to leave with water to drink.

You love the shadows, but I’m happy to play

With a lamp as witness or with light let in on my ‘bulge’.

Tunics and obscuring robes must cover you:

But no girl could ever be naked enough for me!

Kisses to mimic eager doves delight me;

But you give those from a grandmother’s ‘good morning’.

It is beneath you to help out with movement or voice,

Not even fingers, as if you were readying incense and wine.

Phrygian slaves used to masturbate outside the door

Whenever the wife sat atop her Hectorean ‘horse’;

Chaste Penelope always used to keep her hand down there,

Even when the Ithacan was snoring!

You won’t abide anal sex! Cornelia permitted this to Gracchus!

Julia allowed Pompey; Porcia bent for you, Brutus!

When the Dardanian was not yet his servant mixing sweet wine,

Juno was Jupiter’s Ganymede.

If you want to be grave, then be Lucretia all day

Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti. Those are the countries. It will be drought-resistant species, mostly acacias. And this is a brilliant idea you have no idea oh my Christ

They fix nitrogen and improve soil quality.

And, to make things fun, the species they’re using practices “reverse leaf phenology.” The trees go dormant in the rainy season and then grow their leaves again in the dry season. This means you can plant crops under the trees, in that nitrogen-rich soil, and the trees don’t compete for light because they don’t have any leaves on.

And then in the dry season, you harvest the leaves and feed them to your cows.

Crops grown under acacia trees have better yield than those grown without them. Considerably better.

So, this isn’t just about stopping the advancement of the Sahara - it’s also about improving food security for the entire sub-Saharan belt and possibly reclaiming some of the desert as productive land.

Of course, before the “green revolution,” the farmers knew to plant acacia trees - it’s a traditional practice that they were convinced to abandon in favor of “more reliable” artificial fertilizers (that caused soil degradation, soil erosion, etc).

- a guy who started talking about the Earth being a living organism decades before Lovelock and fought for the environment and the importance of reforestation his entire life.

Among other things, Richard St. Barbe Baker:

categorically condemned forest clear-cutting, an idea that he took to governments and forums all over the world, pioneering and fearlessly advocating selective harvesting techniques;

conferred with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and proposed what became America’s Civilian Conservation Corps;

gave tenacious, determined, active leadership, over decades, that helped halt the destruction of the California coastal redwoods, groves that include two-thousand-year-old trees;

drafted research into, and cogent analysis of, the world history of forestry—which he pursued for most of his life—that provides a benchmark for future generations;

traveled to Central and South America and was among the first to propose and plead for an economic solution from the international community to halt the devastation of the Amazon rain forests;

at the age of ninety, made the first of two trips to a remote area of the Himalayas in India where the women of the Chipko tree-hugging movement had, in desperation, taken a bold stand against the deforestation of the region; he was the first Westerner to visit them in their villages and then publicly speak out in support.

(Oh, and in 1929 he was fired from his job as Assistant Conservator of Forests in Nigeria because he defended an African man against a British official.)

Eru:

Eru: But, like, not that.

Masterpost of Free Gothic Literature & Theory

Classics Vathek by William Beckford Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The Woman in White  & The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Monk by Matthew Lewis The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin The Vampyre; a Tale by John Polidori Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Dracula by Bram Stoker The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Short Stories and Poems An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience by William Blake The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Pre-Gothic Beowulf The Divine Comedy  by Dante Alighieri A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Paradise Lost by John Milton Macbeth by William Shakespeare Oedipus, King of Thebes by Sophocles The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

Gothic-Adjacent Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood Jane Eyre & Villette by Charlotte Brontë Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems by Coleridge and Wordsworth The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens The Idiot & Demons (The Possessed) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Moby-Dick by Herman Melville The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

Historical Theory and Background The French Revolution of 1789 by John S. C. Abbott Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. Bradley The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle Demonology and Devil-Lore by Moncure Daniel Conway Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism by Inman and Newton On Liberty by John Stuart Mill The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Feminism in Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle by Frederick Wright

Author-Félix Thiollier.

Date: c. 1899.

Location: France (?)