The Männerbund

Henri Rousseau:

you're cool.

Tactics used by the squadre d'azione, composed of the sons of local landowners and arditi veterans, to suppress bolshevism in the Po valley, as described by a socialist member of parliament in 1921.

Cute girl smiled at me at grocery store, saw armful of 4L milk, redbull and L-theanine, expression became quizzical, disappointed.

Although icarus died, it was man's first bold act when he stole a little of heaven's glory

Gottfried Benn, 1934: The Dorians work in stone, it remains unpainted. Their figures are naked. Doric, that is skin, but skin moving over muscles, masculine flesh, the body. The body, tanned by the sun, oil, dust, the strigil and cold baths, used to fresh air, mature, beautifully toned. Every muscle, the knee-cap, the positioning of joints, dealt with, assimilated, integrated, the whole warlike, yet very choice.

Thinking about the time I accidentally emailed my communist professor using my alt email with some chuddish username like "hyperborean" or something in which I implied she was bad at her job and asked for a 5% bonus on my essay. I didn't get the bonus, for obvious reasons.