Unremarkablelunacy - Rather Quiet, But Rarely Concise

"if you encounter someone who has you doing soliloquies you should Leave" 😂

The plot is coming for that person like a possessed freight train (or malevolent ocean-dweller), and if you're nearby, for you too

i'm finally reading moby dick and there's a lot i didn't know about it such as that the first several dozen chapters are very funny! to me ol Call Me Ishmael has a kind of "what if bertie wooster were 1. american 2. competent" narrative vibe, although admittedly i am what one professor once called an "idiosyncratic" reader, meaning u should not trust anything i say. anyway the book i THOUGHT "moby dick" was going to be doesn't start until captain ahab finally stumps upstairs in chapter 36 and then boy does it ever, because he has I Am In A Tragedy disease and it is contagious and now everyone who was normal two pages ago is monologuing ominously in the dead of night. did you guys know herman melville is a very good writer? have you heard about this? he really knows that if you encounter someone who has you doing soliloquies you should Leave. if you encounter that person while you are on a boat in the middle of the 19th century ocean you are fucked for sure. poor starbuck is out here like "i really would prefer to be in a story about doing my Fucking Job"

The sky early this morning. The brightest one is Jupiter, the bright one off to the left of it is Mars and the bright one near the center at the bottom is, I think, Sirius, the Dog Star. You can see Orion, parts of Taurus including Aldebaran, and the Pleaides although the phone camera didn’t capture all of those. There are lots of stars in the picture that I don’t know too. The moon must be almost full but I guess I was looking at the wrong part of the sky.

Bye-bye

西から紅富士を望む丘で

皆の帰りを待っていました

"I can read a little in [the diverse texts kept in Minas Tirith], for I have had teaching. It was these records that brought the Grey Pilgrim to us. I first saw him when I was a child....

...He got leave of Denethor, how I do not know, to look at the secrets of our treasury, and I learned a little of him, when he would teach (and that was seldom)." -- Faramir, "The Window on the West"

Day 2 of lotr week: histories and legacies.

Young Faramir enjoying old scripts of Minas-Tirith with Gandalf.

(“I bet on loosing dogs” plays on the background every time I see Faramir. My baby, my baby…)

Ok but like. What the fuck is there to do on the internet anymore?

Idk when I was younger, you could just go and go and find exciting new websites full of whatever cool things you wanted to explore. An overabundance of ways to occupy your time online.

Now, it's just... Social media. That's it. Social media and news sites. And I'm tired of social media and I'm tired of the news.

Am I just like completely inept at finding new things or has the internet just fallen apart that much with the problems of SEO and web 3.0 turning everything into a same-site prison?