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The Song of Achilles

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  • Alineцитирует2 года назад
    The last thing I think is: Achilles.

    Motherfucker I hate this book I hate the lack of a happy ending I hate the Greeks and their stupid honor and the gods and their stupid profecies and achilles and agamemnon and their stupid pride and patroclus and his very own brand of stupidity

  • Alineцитирует2 года назад
    Upon Agamemnon’s return home after the war, he was murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra.

    WHAT LMAO
    (OH yeah he killed their daughter)

  • Alineцитирует2 года назад
    The Fates were well known for such riddles, unclear until the final piece had fallen. Then, bitterly clear.
  • Alineцитирует2 года назад
    Her words were like new leather, still stiff and precise, not yet run together with use.
  • Alineцитирует2 года назад
    wet and with bits of fruit still hanging from it, in my ear.

    Ew lmao

  • Alineцитирует2 года назад
    “But you will forgive me?”

    I reached for his hand and took it. “I have no need to forgive you. You cannot offend me.” They were rash words, but I said them with all the conviction of my heart.
  • Alineцитирует2 года назад
    I wished that Achilles would get up. I felt foolish here, on the ground beneath him. And I was also afraid.

    "I am no bottom"

  • Alineцитирует2 года назад
    He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?
  • Montenique Smithцитирует5 месяцев назад
    I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.
  • Montenique Smithцитирует5 месяцев назад
    We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.
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