#pg84

Peppino: "...guess you're right about that..."

I feel like since I’m reading this I would have to give it a score on my Fibonacci Scale since this is a new series. So I would have to give it an 8. But I feel like that this is for nostalgic reasons since this series is the birth place of so many jokes and humor style of Homestuck that I truly love. Because, well let’s face it, so far the fucking plot is just an escape room with no actual sleuthing. Not much to go on so far. But I will do my due diligence for all of my wonderful followers. And Jack. Especially for Jack.

wow the author’s finally resisting to those daft people who decided to add in “make john shit on the desk”

Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny

Underlying themes in both excerpts have similarities although at first glance the two short stories may seem unrelated. Douglass was trying to “break” oxen and domesticate the animals, while slavers were actually trying to domesticate him. In the Zen parable, a boy also struggles to tame an ox and also goes through trials to obtain the ox. In the end of the parable the boy is indentured and set free, much like after Douglass’ life as a slave, he was indentured. Like the boy in the parable, Douglass to lost his “way” or “freedom” and had trials and tribulations with oxen, and was eventually indentured from his condition. It is not at all obvious but obtuse, subtle meanings tie the two stories together.  

> John: See if yo' daddy left tha mail up in tha car. Shiiit, dis aint no joke.