Ashley

@nashley.bsky.social

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happy to yell about the 18th century, Homer's epics, cookbooks, or weight-lifting anytime.

Jesse and Walter meme with the following dialogue copied from Van Helsing: “Our man-brains wi come higher than his child-brain. Your man-though see nothing; my man-thought see nothing. But he be not if man-stature as to brain. He be of child-brain in much”
From Annie Ernaux’s The Years: “respect bread, for the face of God is etched on every grain of wheat”
A glorious baked chicken pot pie, topped with golden biscuit, gleaming with autumnal decadence.
Two books: The Idiot by Elif Batuman & Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro
A painting of a giant, ghostly shadow figure reaching out to grip the moon between long skeletal fingers over a lovely lakeside landscape at night
Responding to a poll asking people to choose between the Iliad and the Odyssey, Dr Emily Wilson replies: “The Iliad. It tells the truth. You never get home again.”
Adam Scott, with intensity: “It’s about the ATMOSPHERE”