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Hello, and welcome to Part VI of my wildly popular series: High Culture Comes to .org. Today, The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It's a poem about a lady who is cursed to live in a tower and never look out at the real world except indirectly through a mirror, that is until one day Chad Sir Lancelot's image appears in her mirror...
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The Lady of Shalott (1842)
Part I On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the wold and meet the sky; And thro' the field the road runs by To many-tower'd Camelot; And up and down the people go, Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below, The island of Shalott. Only reapers,…
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Doestoevsky on the wall
Connoisseurs of Russian beauty could have foretold with certainty that this fresh, still youthful beauty would lose its harmony by the age of thirty, would "spread"; that the face would become puffy, and that wrinkles would very soon appear upon her forehead and round the eyes; the...
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A ROMAN SOLID SILVER AMULET OF A (((GROTESK))) FACE
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/174151087_a-roman-solid-silver-amulet-of-a-grotesk-face-circa-1st-2nd-century-ad this is part of my bringing culture to .org series for part 1, see: https://looksmax.org/threads/doestoevsky-on-the-wall.990417/
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Tolstoy on the black pill
Hello, and welcome to Part IV my extremely popular continuing series "bringing high culture to .org." For parts I-III see: https://looksmax.org/threads/19th-century-dogpill.790180/ https://looksmax.org/threads/doestoevsky-on-the-wall.990417/...
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High culture comes to .org, Part V: Melville on the importance of the brow
Press play before proceeding: Hello, and welcome to Part V of my wildly popular series: High Culture Comes to .org For parts I-IV: https://looksmax.org/threads/19th-century-dogpill.790180/ https://looksmax.org/threads/doestoevsky-on-the-wall.990417/...
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