Emery Robin

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thy evil spirit, Brutus // THE STARS UNDYING (Nov '22) and THE SEA ETERNAL (March '25), Orbit Books // him/xem

Lou Dawg: Wine barrel wrestling, chariot racing, mummy massage station, spin the Nile Dial, human pyramid, goblet pyramid, guess who's in the necropolis, the Sultry Sphinx open bar, do the Tut Tut (whatever that is) My brother: Gold. Also it's sci-fi version of Cleopatra so futuristic stuff is in bounds Lou Dawg: Oh shii so many possibilities
Automobile magnate Henry Ford not only firmly believed in the virtues of the melting pot—he literally, and bizarrely, built one. In the 1920s, Ford required his immigrant workers to attend lengthy “Americanization” courses. The graduation ceremony from this program culminated in a pageant in which workers clad in outlandish versions of their “native” costumes descended into a giant pot—a twenty-foot-tall crucible made of wood, canvas, and papier-mâché—and emerged on the other side wearing modern business suits, waving tiny American flags, and singing “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
a corner of a map hand-drawn in a lined notebook, showing a coastline, some mountains, and labeled cities. the handwriting is messy, the ink is smudged, multiple names are crossed out and re-written, and the coastline has been re-drawn in pen several times so it's difficult to tell where it's actually meant to be
Painting of Vergil, left, holding the Aeneid while Octavia faints in Augustus' lap, right. Augustus holds his hand out sternly toward Vergil.