#ciceronian

87% Have you or would you ever do a gangbang?

12) what kind of day is it? It’s a “take a propanolol before work” kinda day unfortunately 🫠 but I’ll make it haha

41) how do you take your coffee? I like my coffee like I like my women: I’m gay.

Alanna that show ended *this* January that is not “several years”

first of all i can’t count

second i haven’t heard anyone talk about it since season 1

I don't have one, actually – I am, in theory, a re-reader, and the pleasures of discovery are different from the pleasures of familiarity. Take Lord of the Rings. I doubt I'd want to come to it now, at twenty-eight, probably having seen the movies, and having read discussions of it all over the internet. Having had it read to me at four meant that I went into it with no preconceived notions of what it was or should be (or, interestingly enough, what literature should be, which allowed Mr. Tolkien to mould much of my literary taste and opinions – for example, I really like history with no real point in the story. I think I've mentioned before the woman at a book club I went to who said she'd expected all the names of the heroes to "matter" to the main narrative, and how I had a very strong negative reaction to that). 

So rereading now is layers of memory of my previous readings and of things I've done or experienced because of it (screaming our Fellowship names as we jumped into the lake at camp, pretending to be riders of Rohan as we rode funfair ponies, how much I cried at various points, phrases or scenes I loved), as well as noticing new things every time.

I’m thinking about this one professor from my (I guess former?) university’s classics department. He teaches Latin and Greek and literally wrote the textbook about Latin grammar. He’s fluent in Latin and Greek, and by fluent I mean he teaches his classes in Latin (much to the chagrin of Latin 1 students) and teaches both Greek and Latin prose composition. He’s also fluent in English, Spanish, German, and who knows what other languages. I only found out about German after four years when I heard him casually discussing it. A man of mystery. When he’s not busy being an actual ancient Roman, he’s running marathons in his spare time, and he’s one of those people with a million stories about crazy things that have happened in his life.

24. Do you have a collection of anything? I actually have a collection of foreign coins! French francs, German Deutschmarks, Japanese Yen, Israeli shekels, stuff like that. My end goal is to have at least one coin or note from every country on Earth. I also want a 1 trillion dollar Zimbabwean dollar because it’s worthless and use it as a bookmark

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