“May not this, however, be a poetical fiction? Why may not a poet suppose himself to have the gout as well as suppose himself to be in love, of which we have inmumerable instances, and which has been admirably ridiculed by Johnson in his "Life of Cowley?”-James Boswell

Please watch this it’s genuinely important!

“Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.”-Homer

vitam continet una dies

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Ohhhh i literally just realized that it wasn’t the same thing! But seriously what’s the difference?

“Johnson, who was blest with all the powers of genius and understanding, in a degree far above the ordinary state of human nature, is at the same time visited with a disorder so afflictive, that they who a it by dire experience will not envy his exalted endowments.”-James Boswell

“From this dismal malady he never afterward was perfectly relieved; and all labours, and all his enjoyments, were but temporary interruptions its baleful influence.“-James Boswell

Genuinely so funny what in the world.

Yo, what the fuck…. Live from New York it’s Saturday night…right?!…right?!!

‘ Where are now the warring kings? An idle word is now their glory, By the stammering schoolboy said, Reading some entangled story: The kings of the old time are dead; The wandering earth herself may be Only a sudden flaming word, In clanging space a moment heard, Troubling the endless reverie’

Another day another way in which this administration blatantly violates the constitution. Time will tell if scotus does their job.

Senator Schiff explains that a Boston judge recently ruled his order letting USPS withhold mail ballots from states that won’t hand voter data to DHS is unconstitutional. Your vote is worth fighting for! Make sure you’re registered. Make sure you vote. 🗳️ #USDemocracy #Pinks

“After all, as educated men, we should realize that myths always stand for other things. They are toys for children teething. The man knows that the toy horse is not a true horse but merely suggests the idea of a horse to a baby's mind. “-Gore Vidal

‘But o for touch of a vanished and the sound of a voice that is still’ Alfred lord Tennyson

A basic income program in central Iowa gave 110 people $500/mo. It caused improvements in savings, stress, and agency. It also found significant changes in scores relating to hope — the ability to create goals and feel capable of working toward them, and also increases in mattering and self-reliance

“On the throne of the world any delusion can become fact”-Gore Vidal

"Like the rest of us, Constantius was many men in the body of one."

I keep getting ads for Ai fan fiction generators…. This is it this is the worst time line. You’re telling me people can’t even write stories in pre packaged worlds anymore that’s too much work?

America’s unions have never been more united, and we’re ready to fight for a future that works for ALL working people. Let’s go get it done!

Damn right I care about protecting our constitutional rights.

Oh yes babynames.com, I’m really out here trying to name my child Gaius 😂 ahh dnd

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Fuck ice

“no man is as offended at doubt as is the habitual liar who has for once told the truth.”-R.A. Macavoy

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Ladies and gentlemen my algorithm wants me to be a tribune

you got it boss 😂

The rosa parks thing really does happen doctor who is wack 😂

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