have you ever had a pomegranate so good you understood the entire myth of hades and persephone? like yes girl, i too would spend half a year in the underworld for but a few seeds.
Thinking about that time Charles Boyle referred to The Godfather as “the Diane Keaton movie”
casually mentioning hozier in my linguistics essay because i believe that his work should be studied. academically.
i’ll never be normal about the fact that gang of youths wrote a song titled achilles come down and added spoken lines from albert camus’ the myth of sisyphus about rage, grief and hopelessness that perfectly apply to achilles’ story. how dare they?
Me: “I think I’ll start reading Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage! It seemed pretty good from the excerpts Ive read in English class”
Also me: *literally googling every other word in the first Canto*
the narrator from camus’ the stranger is that you?
Reading Le Myth de Sisyphe and going “what the hell my guy” every line.
no because imagine having to sit through byron scream singing in albanian
for someone who claims to know an awful lot about greek mythology figures/relates to them, dorian gray sure does not seem to grasp the significance of hubris and its fatal consequences.