Oooh I just did a Peloton “advanced beginner” run (that means a few walking intervals mixed in with speed and endurance work) outdoors and I am buzzing! Just 8 more runs and I’ll reach 100 (I’ve done 248 walks and 103 meditation sessions) #running#fitness
Ncuti Gatwa is very engaging and the young woman is okay, but all the puns and the meta televisual stuff feel a bit shoehorned… and I don’t really care about any of it. Delightfully performed villain in the second episode, though.
Still…I dunno.
And the song was unpardonably bad.
Wait and see I guess.
(Wait for the telegraphed twist?) #DoctorWho
If “the West” is going to let Israel complete the genocide of Palestinians and also let Russia conquer Ukraine, what is its hegemony made of, and what is the point of all its weapons and moralising? #GlobalPolitics#InternationalAffairs#war#wars
Another night of waking every hour or so. I guess technically it’s my birthday now. Happy birthday me, I made to 50, who’d have thought. Once again I feel absolutely fine during the night, neither up nor down. The Goldilocks zone 😁
Yarn people, textile people : I have found these amazing works. The woman who made them has died, and she never explained what her technique was. Embroidery? Crochet? Can any of you suggest one? Right and wrong sides shown #YarnCraft#TextileCraft#crafting#crochet#embroidery#textile
In 1968, at the age of 5, I was immersed in American white culture. At 16, I participated in an exchange program in Tunisia and lived with a family. During college, I studied abroad in Spain and have lived there on and off for 40 years. I’ve met a lot of different types of people from a lot of different cultures and socio-economic groups. All of this has given me a clear understanding of the fact that PEOPLE ARE JUST PEOPLE.
He is known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". Rupert Brooke’s promising literary career was cut short when he died in April 1915 from sepsis resulting from an infected mosquito bite while he was part of the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.
Okay folks, another translation question: You can have “shit for brains” in English, but not shit for a soul. How would you say something like that, that someone is a garbage person, down to the core? #AmTranslating
@kissane It’s a person who, enacting vengeance for admittedly great wrongs, manoeuvres a father into bringing her his small children and murders them in front of him.
@kissane 😊Not quite… it’s Hecuba, with greater wrongs and a more obscure story (Polymestor of Thrace).
Yes, I wondered about cunt… I do lean US in my idiom, because I went to school there.
@kissane I’ve already used bitch, so I might go that far (I think you’re mixing her up with Hecate, though. Which nicely supports my point to the writer that she’s not known almost at all in the English-speaking world).
The play I’m doing is a modern take on Euripides’ Hecuba, which is quoted at your link. It’s from the point of view of one Trojan servants, “the slave girl in line 890” as she describes herself, and doesn’t go up to Hecuba’s death.
I don’t really know Athenian Tragedy well, having been mostly educated in English. I learn it by translating, and am always getting things wrong.