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joy is a habit. just so u know.

imo the really interesting story of the iliad is the fact that, because it’s a later telling of the story, all the characters are self-conscious abt their legendary status. like the first time we see helen, she’s weaving a tapestry of all the men who will die for her. the characters all have a tragic sense of foreboding & also a feeling of helpless submission to the power of the narrative. the greek nonbelief in human agency is always super weird but its esp weird in homer imo bc the cosmological force isn’t so much fate as it is the story: hektor and achilles know that they’re tragic heroes, helen knows she’s an evil seductress, cassandra knows she’s cursed, patroklos and andromache know that they can’t do anything 2 stop the men they love from dying. which makes the tone of the story very strange, almost as if the characters are going thru the motions of a story they’re told before

me after a minor inconvenience: i hope i get hit by a [remembers i’m anti car-centric infrastructure] pedestrian

i have [gestures vaguely] my tendencies

So you only like the first 62 words of the 80 word post that established the concept? Fascinating.

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