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i can't tell if it's just claudius or also robert graves who's convinced that livia was the most cartoonishly evil woman of all time and augustus was at heart a good guy. if it's claudius that makes sense. if it's graves that's fucking hilarious. babygirl you know that is not true

is every writer of roman history/historical fiction required to dunk on lepidus. his only two mentions so far are "Lepidus (a rich but unenergetic nobleman)" and "Lepidus did not count"

“…the difficult task of trying to find lands and a bride for a third son, never easy, and doubly difficult in Ser Loras’s case.”

george i can tell you’re dying to say the f word.

"'If you kill me you'll never get over it,' she said to him in Tamil. 'I won't even have to curse you. The gods you believe in won't even curse you. You'll just live a long life and remember me always.

'I don't believe in God,' she told him clearly. 'But I believe that you can do something else.'

But he didn't."

“Now sheathe your bloody sword, or I’ll take it from you and shove it up some place even Renly never found.” JAIME???? I DON’T THINK YOU CAN RECLAIM THAT

the first chapter of this book truly is the best thing ever written

evil is not limited by what you personally can imagine…

petyr baelish i'll fucking kill you. get a JOB leave her ALONE!!!!

the audacity of this bitch to be like "yeah i don't like to throw in trifling fancy phrases" john you are lying. you are lying to me. you wrote decades after shakespeare and your work is harder to understand. nobody writes Like This on accident. look me in the eyes john

CAN YOU NOT SKINJACK THE GUY YOU RIDE AROUND?

"He appears here as Octavian, two Caesars remaining, as ever, one too many" cicero voice

"A Roman could not pry apart the exotic and the erotic; Cleopatra was a stand-in for the occult, alchemical East, for her sinuous, sensuous land, as perverse and original as its astonishment of a river [...] It is not difficult to understand why Caesar became history, Cleopatra a legend."

my hopes for this book are so high.

"We had the same smile. I still have it--his is the face I see in my mirror. He said he would come back. I have never forgiven myself for letting him go. Could you?"

i'm going to walk into the ocean

what a good first chapter ough. "As my mother baked Aran's birthday cake in a kitchen filled with food from the market, the bright blossoms of its vendor awnings wilted under clouds of smoke."

what goddamn right does this book hvae to be the size of a brick

does this count as fridging

:( i knew [he] was doomed but it still hurts. [HER] HOWEVER I WAS NOT EXPECTING?

i think i need to read everything this guy ever said. something about the way he writes is rewiring my brain. like. you ever read a book and the intelligence and perceptual power of the author just bleeds out of every single line

“In this light she could almost be a beauty, he thought. In this light she could almost be a knight.”

okay. i’m violent

“People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else.”

1. EDMUND SPENSER MENTIONED! 2. extremely funny to introduce him as “known for his epic poem The Faerie Queene as well as for his anti-Irish sentiments” literally that’s it that’s all you need to know

IAGO REDDIT INCEL???

this has been in my house for four years

FRIENDS ROMANS COUNTRYMEN SPEECH JUMPSCARE IN THE CHAPTER 6 EPIGRAPH

repeatedly shortening my reading challenge goal because i need a win

NOT “WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DEFEND OURSELVES”

we all have that one homie who adheres to his rigid moral code (reading everything written by vergil) long after the point it becomes a burden to him (this poem being boring as shit)

husni i love you so much it's unreal

jon please she’s trying so hard to radicalize you