Going Ham On The Stair Climber

Aunt Josephine's obsession with grammatical "correctness" in A Sceries of Unfortunate Events is presented in a really interesting way, where it's on the one hand a puerille, distracting focus on the wrong things about language (i.g. its "correctness" or "incorrectness," rather than its ability to express or explore ideas)—as I've been rereading the books I'd noticed how it's consistently tied to her cowardice, her inability to be materially helpful to the Baudelaire childen, & her impotence (in a universe where most adults are either competent but evil, or good-hearted but incompetent)—a fault which is especiallie notable in a work that otherwise consistently values and rewards a focus on language—

Not to brag or anything but I’m Italian and I live in Rome and today they performed Julius Caesar on the literal ruins of the Curia of Pompey. aka the exact place where Caesar got absolutely wrecked in 44 BCE. on the anniversary of him getting absolutely wrecked 💅