Solidly Indulgent

i found this in a 1755 “General Magazine of Arts and Sciences Philosophical, Philological, Mathematical, and Mechanical” (under “miscellaneous correspondence, essays, poetry” etc., printed for w. owen in london:

(“prior’s apelles” appears to be the poem ‘protogenes and apelles’ by matthew prior (1664-1721), but the poem sheds no light on why helen should be ‘of troy’ and not ‘of greece’)

and references to ‘helen of greece’ are common through the early eighteenth century (and make a lot of sense, given the apparent connection of her name to hellas, the greek term for ‘greece’)

hmmmmm… inch-resting…

Day 1437 of posting pictures of elephants.

Sam woke up with some bed head here.

Sent to me by @aegor-bamfsteel!

According to traditional Armenian belief, Grox (the writer) is a spirit who records a person's deeds during their lifetime, determining the purity of their soul. This concept may be linked to Tir, the god of writing and literature in Armenian mythology. In some interpretations, it was believed that anyone whose name Tir wrote in his notebook would die. This is where the curse "may the writer take you" originates.

During the Christian era, Grox was mistakenly represented as a Christian spirit who no longer recorded human deeds but instead determined each person's fate, inscribing it on their foreheads. Over time, Grox came to be depicted as an evil spirit, sometimes identified with Satan. Thus, the curse "get lost in Grox’s embrace," which originally signified death, took on a more negative connotation. However, this was not originally characteristic of Grox in Armenian traditional beliefs.

"Երանի գրողին, որ տարավ քեզ:"