#illias

Saw this cool helmet and wanted to draw it. I also don’t draw illias enough so he gets to wear it

“But Weil, who always saw and felt reality clearly (paying the price of unbearable suffering for that clarity of vision or the “acute powers of recognition”, as she calls it in the passage quoted above) and who predicted the rise of Hitler to power while all her left-wing friends laughed at her, had few illusions to entertain. Her desire for clarity and truth brought her back in the summer of 1940 to the Iliad, to this “purest and loveliest of mirrors”. In this mirror one can see the terrifying nature of force, of this ancient human drive to turn others into things, which will never disappear, no matter how many smart professors comfortably say otherwise over coffee tables. Simone Weil knew we desperately need a clear mirror to deal with the horror of force in its most ghastly expression, which is war. What we need is a mirror of poetry, because it enables us to think, to feel, and even to deal with war. Children play and, when there is war, they play war; but we grown-ups also need to play, and poetry is our play – maybe even the supreme form of play. Simone invites us to play war with the greatest of players, that blind yet clear-sighted singer, Homer.”

Art: Muhammed Salah

i actually love meme cats thank u have a floppa

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It looks like I already have them blocked or maybe the other way around, because I don't see any notifications from someone with that URL! I'll look it into those, so thanks for telling me, I run over blmatsus for fun.