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oh tell me the flirting isn't going to be like this the whole time.

also i didn't manage to speedrun this so can someone come drop an anvil on me please

shaking my head solemnly to indicate that i don't agree with victor hugo's opinions on booktok popular romance

is leida fucking lepidus

"what if antony and cleopatra were in the hunger games" is not a bad concept but i am not sure this person is cleopatra. she's not bad she's just not necessarily cleopatra

if i don't speedrun this today for my research project i need one of you to kill me

ACEGUSTUS REAL

i respect schiff's dedication to dragging cicero within an inch of his life at every opportunity

i could list a bunch of stuff that happened in one year too victor. i could do that. it wouldn't even be hard for me

thinking of that post that goes “jean valjean has super strength and it, like, BARELY matters at all”

"For a woman who was to be celebrated for her masterly manipulation of Rome, Cleopatra's story would be entrusted primarily to that city's historians; she effectively ceases to exist without a Roman in the room." ough

MY BEST FRIEND JEAN VALJEAN!!!!!

re: my last update. that said. i do not think ms. prose and i have the same take on WHY this play sucks

i love the contortions people will make to avoid just flatly saying shakespeare's antony and cleopatra is bad

[a former revolutionary responding to someone pointing out the violence of the French Revolution]

"A cloud had been forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen hundred years it burst. You are putting the thunderbolt on its trial."

the thoughts this book has about when/if revolution is justified are so. im chewing them

they used to let you start a book just any old way

"Just like Zionism, Palestinian & other Arab national identities were modern & contingent... not eternal & immutable. The denial of an authentic, independent Palestinian identity is of a piece with Herzl’s colonialist views on the alleged benefits of Zionism to the indigenous population, & constitutes a crucial element in the erasure of their national rights and peoplehood..."

absolute son of a bitch move to make the third sentence of this book equivalent to "this doesn't really matter, but i want you to know" and enter a digression that lasts forty pages. who was doing it like this

mention of the mark antony childhood boyfriend scandal. this book was written for me

describing aeneas’s golden bough as “poetry’s most famous wand” and book 6 as “mass necromancy” is so delightful

BRUTUS AND CASSIUSSSSSSSSSS

best page in the book bc 1. [fulvia] is here 2. [catullus] mention 3. line about [cicero]: “of course he’s a genius and it’s not his fault he’s exhausting,”

this adaptation of caesar being made dictator for life is actually fucking genius i’m obsessed with emery robin’s mind

the writing here is so unsubtle but maybe that's because i hvae aged out of YA

not cris’s boyfriend believing in reverse racism. girl kill that thing

“I did not look up from what I was doing, which was scanning the latest draft of the debt relief plan Ceirran had sent me, and writing ‘I must be confused?’ in the margins where he was lying about the numbers.”

this book may be everything

sci-fi cicero mentions have me kicking my feet and giggling