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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

if this was in an evangelical movie about the antichrist you'd think it'd be a bit much

Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I was 7 years old so I didn’t understand all of the context, but I remember my parents watching the news channels covering it and feeling like it was a big deal

The Washington Post Front Page
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1998
İnside: Book World, TV Week, ine rost Magazise, Comics
Todae's Custruty on Pupe A2
$1.50
Clinton Impeached
House Approves Articles Charging Perjury, Obstruction

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Finally a film about how creepy this phenomenon was Respect to Pattinson who is truly down for anything (complimentary!)

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

St Augustine didn’t write City of God just so Katie Miller and the richest man in the world, who are both controlled by the libido dominandi, could get away with blaming therapy for the fall of Rome

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

1. Memento 2. Oppenheimer 3. The Odyssey It’s really a tie between The Prestige and The Odyssey for third I think

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My LRB review of Nolan’s Odyssey would have mentioned how Sinon couldn’t have rose to surface of Hades so quickly because he is in the 10th bolgia of the 8th circle and it took Dante 30 cantos to reach him… but they didn’t ask me

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Some of you weren’t born and raised in the trenches— reading Pauline Kael ruthlessly criticize your most cherished classic movies— and it shows.

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I have some minor quibbles but overall, I really enjoyed it! For all the talk about how cold Nolan’s films can be, the Odyssey is one of his most emotionally resonant films. 48 hours later and I’m still processing the emotions of the images and performances.

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

In light of being able to finally watch The Odyssey tonight, here’s one of my favorite Odyssey-inspired poems, written by George Seferis and translated by @aestallings.bsky.social

GEORGE SEFERIS
Upon a Line of Foreign Verse
To Elli, Christmas 1931
Happy is he who has made the journey of Odysseus. Happy if,
as the journey loomed,
He felt the sturdy rigging of a love, stretched taut inside his body like
the veins where the blood booms,
Of a love with unbroken rhythm, invincible as music and undying, because it was born when we were born, and whether it dies when we do,
we do not know, and it is no use trying.
God help me to say, in a moment of great joy, what is this love?
I sit sometimes surrounded by an alien land, and I hear its distant roar, like the boom of the sea mingled with an inexplicable whirlwind from above.
And again and again, the shade of Odysseus appears before me, with eyes red from the brine of the waves, and from a ripe yearning to see once more
the smoke wafting from the warmth of his house, and the dog grown
old waiting at the door.
There he stands, tall, whispering through his whitened beard words of our tongue, as it was spoken three thousand years ago.
He holds out a palm calloused from the ropes and the tiller, with skin weathered by the dry north wind, by the scorching heat and the snow.
It's as though he wants to banish from our midst the superhuman
Cyclops, who watches with one eye, the Sirens, whose song makes you forget, and Scylla and Charybdis, who swallow you whole, so many elaborate monsters that keep us from reflecting how he was a man who strove in the world, with his body and his soul.
He is the great Odysseus, the one who directed them to build the
wooden horse, and the Achaeans won Troy;

imagine he is coming to tell me how to build a wooden horse so
I may win my own Troy.
Because he speaks humbly and serenely, without effort, he seems to
know me like a father,
or like the old mariners, who, leaning on their nets, at the hour of
winter and the wind's anger,
would sing to me in my childhood the song of Erotókritos, with their
eyes full of tears,
and in my sleep, still thinking of the unjust fate of Arete descending
the marble staircase, I was seized with fears.
He tells me how hard the pain is, to feel the sails of your ship belly
with memory and your soul become the helm,
to be alone and rudderless as chaff on the threshing floor, when the
shadows overwhelm,
The bitterness of seeing your companions sunk into the elements,
scattered, one by one,
and how strange it is to become a man by speaking with the Dead, when the Living who remain are no longer sufficient unto you -none.
He speaks... I still see his hands, that knew how to test if the mermaid on the prow was well-carven, without splinter,
giving me the unruffled blue sea in the heart of winter.
Translated from the Modern Greek by A. E. Stallings

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What is this woke shit?!? The guy making justified complaints about the lazy poor is a villain? Looks like Nolan is not the only problem; that old blind bastard, Homer, caught the woke mind virus as well!

Hand him
over to me, I'll make a farmhand of him, a stall scraper, a fodder carrier! Whey for drink will put good muscle on his shank!
No chance: he learned his dodges long ago-no honest sweat. He'd rather tramp the country begging, to keep his hoggish belly full.
Well, I can tell you this for sure: in King Odysseus' hall, if he goes there, footstools will fly around his head-good shots from strong hands. Back and side, his ribs will catch on the way out!"

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Imagine thinking that casting a black woman as Helen is a threat to Western Civilization but cutting all humans out of the artistic process is not. Makes one question his actual commitments to humanity…

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Randomly came across this post from a relatively small account but man… Equating the success of Nolan’s Odyssey to China’s First Five-Year Plan is elite poasting

Let's not kid ourselves, guys. The Odyssey is a success. Frankly, all it needed to do was not flop. Thus, it paves the way for a Great Leap Forward in media, where the bedrock of western storytelling is fundamentally remade to suit modern sensibilities.
End of an era.

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dr peppermint patty @jessespector.com · 19/07/2026

when the one who gives the bath gets washed

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Jacquie @lajacq.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Cabo Verde spiritually won this World Cup 🇪🇸🙏🏻🇨🇻

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

We Are Lamine Yamal We Carry The Flame

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Hearing word that Nolan wants to make a horror film but doesn’t have an idea for it yet. I have one and he can stay with the Epic Poetry tradition too:

Opened to Dante picture and title page of the Cary translated/Dore illustrated Dante’s Inferno

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

(Explaining the World Cup game to a football fan) a point in soccer is worth 7 in American football, so England had 28 points in the third quarter...

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A Falcons stray by a Brit commentator in a third place World Cup game… I’ll never be free

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Nolan, who doesn’t own a smartphone and only use the computer for research/writing, is just a normie who thinks that hospitality is important (hence why he chose the Odyssey now) Meanwhile, Asmongold, whose worldview is solely reliant on internet fever swaps, doesn’t shower Choose your fighter

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

solomon in 1 Kings 3

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s a shame that Bellingham plays for perfidious Albion, because I really like him

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Stephen Kelly @spkellywriter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Norway subbing off Haaland

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Haaland on Saturday in Miami:

Actor Matt Smith in long blonde hair next to a lion’s head on a pike in House of the Dragon

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Not quite as Dantean as an unlikely Balogun own goal but the goalie screw up will work just fine for divine justice

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Happy for Audrey Hepburn, René Magritte, and Hercule Poirot

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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Crossover L of the night: camera pans to a sad guy in the stands in a Maine sweater

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Jacquie @lajacq.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The USA just got PIPED DOWN 🇧🇪

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

i am once again vindicated in thinking that the vast majority of nominees should make it past a state level election before running for federal office

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Money Mike with the accurate score prediction. More proof that baseball and soccer are spiritual cousins

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/07/2026

Oh man, putting England and Norway, our palest countries, in Miami in July feels like a cruel prank

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

English commentator referenced Red Sox v Yankees as an analogy for the two benches beefing

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Alt: Minions happy clapping screaming

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Shoutout to Game 7 of the Dodgers/Bluejays World Series. The first time I knew this site had the juice

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/07/2026

Look why should altitude have a different effect in different sports

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I know for a fact I have less dawg in me than the English fans that went to go watch this match in Mexico City

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 06/07/2026

But great men tremble when the lion roars

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Still the best word on Mexico City altitude

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

More Fox News house style leaking over into Fox Sports

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I’ll say one nice thing about the Belgium team before tomorrow night: I am a sucker for their René Magritte-inspired away kits with Ceci n’est pas un maillot (“This is not a jersey”) on the back

Belgium’s Away Kits

The middle guy has an apple in front of the guy wearing the jersey’s face, a staple of Magritte’s paintings

On the left shows the back of the jersey with Ceci n’est pas un maillot (“This is not a jersey”) written on the back, inspired by his treachery of images painting of a pipe with Ceci n’est pas une pipe (“This is not a pipe”) beneath it

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