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  1. Apr 2022
    1. great again

      A textual allusion to a real-world occurance not explicated in the text; rejecting a non-aesthetic view of the text would render this political allusion mute

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  2. Mar 2022
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    1. This new vigor in this sector of cultural life very often passes unseen

      a sign that it is something that has not yet been commodified or incorporated into the colonial narrative

    2. We remember perfectly, and the example took on a certain mea sure of importance since the real nature of colonialism was not involved, the reactions of the white jazz specialists when after the Second World War new styles such as the be- bop took defi-nite shape.

      When facets of the oppressed culture begin to take new shape and challenge preconceived notions of the colonisers, it again becomes a threat to the regime

  4. Feb 2022
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    1. Achilles5

      The narrative figure made possible by the world of Achilles/Homer is not possible in the modern age as the structure of our world and of modern warfare do not permit the centrality of such figures to hold such a prominent role in our lives.

    2. the printing press

      The Iliad was composed and transmitted orally, and its form is a necessity of that, so a world in which such oral traditions are not practiced would not produce the Iliad as we know it

    3. the idiocy of rural life

      "idiocy" =/= stupid "idiot" as in someone who is truly blind to anything outside of themselves (i.e., the ignorant life of one who lives in a rural setting)

  6. Jan 2022
  7. Feb 2021
    1. cornugon smash

      A shaken character takes a –2 penalty on attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks. Shaken is a less severe state of fear than frightened or panicked

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  8. Jan 2021

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  9. Dec 2019
    1. praetextatum filium

      a boy wearing the toga praetexta (a white toga with a broad purple stripe on its border, worn over a tunic with two broad, vertical purple stripes. It was formal costume for freeborn boys before they came of age (when they would be given a toga virilis))

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    1. At quae erat ista libido crudelitatis exercendae, quae tot3scelerum suscipiendorum causa

      but what desire is there (of yours) for exercising this cruelty, what cause is there for taking up these crimes?

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  10. Nov 2019

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