Seneca-7

и Двенадцатый Доктор) Возможно, мне мерещится, но прям сильно мерещится) И не только по смыслу, но и стилистически))

Для сравнения, сначала Доктор (Hell Bent, моя любимая серия ибо вот это всё плюс крутой закос под Бетховена в OST-e)

As you come into this world, something else is also born. You begin your life, and it begins a journey towards you. It moves slowly, but it never stops. Wherever you go, whatever path you take, it will follow. Never faster, never slower, always coming. You will run, it will walk. You will rest, it will not. One day, you will linger in the same place too long, you will sit too still or sleep too deep. And when, too late, you rise to go, you will notice a second shadow next to yours. Your life will then be over.

А теперь Сенека, диалог "О краткости жизни":

your life will run its course when once it has begun, and will neither begin again or efface what it has done. It will make no disturbance, it will give you no warning of how fast it flies: it will move silently on: it will not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the wish of a nation: as it started on its first day, so it will run: it will never turn aside, never delay. What follows, then? Why! you are busy, but life is hurrying on: death will be here some time or other, and you must attend to him, whether you will or no.

@темы: книги, имя розы, Doctor Who, binge watching

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Seneca-6

You have no grounds, therefore, for supposing that anyone has lived long, because he has wrinkles or grey hairs: such a man has not lived long, but has only been long alive. Why would you think that a man had voyaged much if a fierce gale had caught him as soon as he left his port, and he had been driven round and round the same place continually by a succession of winds blowing from opposite quarters? such a man has not travelled much, he has only been much tossed about.

@темы: книги

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божи какая прелесть

Саймоно-гарфанкелевская Sound of Silence на классической латыни, ыыы

@темы: музыка, youTube, Schprachfimmel

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Roman practicality :)

At the beginning of Quinctilis Rome began to fill up with country people, most of whom were looking for lodgings until after the middle of September. Nor did as many as usual leave for the seashore, even among the upper classes. Aware that crime and disease would both be on the increase, Pompey devoted some of his splendid organizational talents to diminishing crime and disease by hiring ex-gladiators to police the alleys and byways of the city, by making the College of Lictors keep an eye on the shysters and tricksters who frequented the Forum Romanum and other major marketplaces, by enlarging the swimming holes of the Trigarium, and plastering vacant walls with warning notices about good drinking water, urinating and defaecating anywhere but in the public latrines, clean hands and bad food.

(Colleen McCullough, Masters of Rome)

@темы: книги

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my own personal

Jesus Томас Мор в сай-фай сеттинге՞

пятница, 16 мая 2025 в 14:54

Пишет Lanierus:

Для strega_verde
Надеюсь, похож)

@темы: дыбр

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Seneca-5

... and the right to disconnect XD

The founders of our laws appointed festivals, in order that men might be publicly encouraged to be cheerful, and they thought it necessary to vary our labours with amusements, and, as I said before, some great men have been wont to give themselves a certain number of holidays in every month, and some divided every day into playtime and work-time. Thus, I remember that great orator Asinius Pollio would not attend to any business after the tenth hour: he would not even read letters after that time for fear some new trouble should arise, but in those two hours used to get rid of the weariness which he had contracted during the whole day.

... and mindfulness XD

I have now, my beloved Serenus, given you an account of what things can preserve peace of mind, what things can restore it to us, what can arrest the vices which secretly undermine it: yet be assured, that none of these is strong enough to enable us to retain so fleeting a blessing, unless we watch over our vacillating mind with intense and unremitting care.

@темы: книги

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Визуально

красивое, конечно.


Otherwise, попытки по отмыванию очень чёрного кобеля, ну такое себе. В духе современного морального релятивизма, унесите пудинг, бубубу. Нет, я понимаю, что автор первоисточника сильно не любил католицизм, но могли бы в качестве антикатолического героя-страдальца выбрать кого-нибудь менее сомнительного)) Тиндейла например) Но Тиндейл не занимался организацией королевских разводов, there is that. Бубубу.

@темы: книги, binge watching

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Смотрю

вторую часть Вулф Холла, уже прям интересно, сделают ли они из Кромвелля совсем святого или остановятся где-то на полпути)
Пара статей про Томаса Мора в сериале приятно когда не у одного тебя пукан взорвался, бгг

www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/20...
bookhaven.stanford.edu/2015/06/late-reflections...

@темы: binge watching

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Сенека-4

за две тыщи лет до фейсбука и инстаграмма (курсив мой)))

They wander purposelessly seeking for something to do, and do, not what they have made up their minds to do, but what has casually fallen in their way. They move uselessly and without any plan, just like ants crawling over bushes, which creep up to the top and then down to the bottom again without gaining anything. Many men spend their lives in exactly the same fashion, which one may call a state of restless indolence. You would pity some of them when you see them running as if their house was on fire: they actually jostle all whom they meet, and hurry along themselves and others with them, though all the while they are going to salute someone who will not return their greeting, or to attend the funeral of someone whom they did not know: they are going to hear the verdict on one who often goes to law, or to see the wedding of one who often gets married: they will follow a man’s litter, and in some places will even carry it: afterwards returning home weary with idleness, they swear that they themselves do not know why they went out, or where they have been, and on the following day they will wander through the same round again. <...>they are excited by the outward appearance of something, and their crazy mind cannot see its futility. <...>he finds that the most difficult person of all to find at home is himself. From this evil habit comes that worst of all vices, talebearing and prying into public and private secrets, and the knowledge of many things which it is neither safe to tell nor safe to listen to.

@темы: книги, Schprachfimmel

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Сенека-3

За пару тыщ лет до Оскара Уайльда:

as a rule sadness arises from one of these two things, either from want of success or from being ashamed of having succeeded

@темы: книги, имя розы, Schprachfimmel

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Сенека-2

и немного буддизма)

We are all chained to fortune: some men’s chain is loose and made of gold, that of others is tight and of meaner metal: but what difference does this make? we are all included in the same captivity, and even those who have bound us are bound themselves, unless you think that a chain on the left side is lighter to bear: one man may be bound by public office, another by wealth: some have to bear the weight of illustrious, some of humble birth: some are subject to the commands of others, some only to their own: some are kept in one place by being banished thither, others by being elected to the priesthood. All life is slavery: let each man therefore reconcile himself to his lot, complain of it as little as possible, and lay hold of whatever good lies within his reach.

Small sites, if ingeniously divided, may be made use of for many different purposes, and arrangement will render ever so narrow a room habitable. Call good sense to your aid against difficulties: it is possible to soften what is harsh, to widen what is too narrow, and to make heavy burdens press less severely upon one who bears them skillfully.

Moreover, we ought not to allow our desires to wander far afield, but we must make them confine themselves to our immediate neighbourhood, since they will not endure to be altogether locked up. We must leave alone things which either cannot come to pass or can only be effected with difficulty, and follow after such things as are near at hand and within reach of our hopes, always remembering that all things are equally unimportant, and that though they have a different outward appearance, they are all alike empty within.

@темы: книги

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Seneca

Suppose that he has lost the status of a citizen; then let him exercise that of a man

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the worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies; yet it is your duty, if you happen to live in an age when it is not easy to serve the State, to devote more time to leisure and to literature.

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no good is done by forcing one’s mind to engage in uncongenial work: it is vain to struggle against Nature

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...property, that most fertile source of human sorrows

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The inner curve is the one to take, not only in running races and in the contests of the circus, but also in the race of life

@темы: книги, Schprachfimmel

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решила

почитать Сенеку, стоического agony aunt, раздававшего советы как правильно жить)
Друг Сенеки: Что делать, когда терзает FOMO?
Сенека: вкратце объясняет теорию неврозов, вкратце осуждает неправильные к ним подходы, цитирует местного пушкина насчёт охоты к перемене мест (с осуждением) и сообщает что надо заняться общественно полезным делом, и FOMO как рукой снимет

@темы: книги

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Спартак с Дугласом-старшим

прекрасен. Бог с ними со Спартаком и Дугласом, но какие там римляне в исполнении Лоренса Оливье (аристократичный до отвращения Красс) и Питера Устинова (хитрожопый ланиста). И ещо Чарльз Лотон, абсолютно незабываемо харизматичный в роли собирательного Гракха (персонаж или просто выдуманный или сильно анахроничный, но божимой до чего же он хорош)
И сцена финальной битвы, ыыы. Идите в жопу с вашим CGI, он никогда не сравнится с натуральной картиной целого легиона маневрирующего на местности))) (пофиг что на самом деле легионов было шесть, плюс я не уверена что даже если б они влезли в бюджет, он бы влезли в кадр)))

@темы: кино

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бгг

When you get used to ChatGPT, you kinda can't help beginning to like it, because it's just so inhumanly nice and patient And it jokes and quotes Shakespeare at you, which, let's face it, not many people I know are capable of

@темы: ебаньки на марше, дыбр, twenty years of schooling and they'll put you on the day shift

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You live and you learn

According to some, драматичная сцена бури в "Короле Лире" начинается с fart joke

Blow winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow!

Вот она, непереводимая игра слов на местном диалекте

@темы: книги, Schprachfimmel

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on grief

He didn’t know what he felt, how he felt. The grief, the loss, the finality of it all sat within him like a huge lead boulder; to carry the burden was as much as he could manage, he had nothing left over with which to explore his feelings. There before him lay the ruin of his house, there lay all that was left of his dearest friend, the companion of his old age, the heir to his name, his fortune, his reputation, his public career. Vanished in the space of thirty hours, a decision of no god, not even a whim of fate. The cold had worsened, the lungs had become inflamed, and the heart squeezed dry of animation. The story of a thousand illnesses. No one’s fault, no one’s design. An accident. For the boy, who could know nothing, feel nothing, it was simply the end of life, suffered to conclusion. For those left behind, knowing all, feeling all, it was the prelude to an emptiness in the midst of life that would not cease until life was over. His son was dead. His friend was gone forever.

(Masters of Rome)

@темы: книги

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Перед концом республики)

And, with the trouble largely over and a feeling of peace within his heart, he looked out into that ocean of faces and saw what Lucius Appuleius Saturninus had seen: a source of power as yet untapped, innocent of the guile experience and education brought, ready to believe some passionately eloquent demagogue’s self-seeking kharisma and put themselves under a different master.

(Colleen McCullough, Masters of Rome)

@темы: книги

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Masters of Rome

"At least I have the blood. But it’s tainted with the Subura. Actors. Low life. I’m not really one of the Good Men.” He drew a breath. “Yet—I’m going to go right past them, Aurelia! Because I’m the best horse in the race.”

“And what happens when the prize isn’t worth it?”

He opened his eyes wide, astonished at her denseness. “It’s never worth the effort! Never! That’s not why we do it, any of us. When they harness us up to do our seven laps of the course, we race against ourselves. What other challenge could there be for a Gaius Marius? He’s the best horse in the field. So he races against himself. So do I. I can do it. I’m going to do it! But it only really matters to me.”

@темы: книги

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бгг

Древние римляне обсуждают всеобщее избирательное право))

“Something has just occurred to me, Lucius Appuleius. The People are at least a responsible and well-educated lot. Pillars of Roman tradition. But—what if one day someone starts talking about the Head Count the way you’re talking about the People?”
“As long as their bellies are full, and the aediles put on a good show at the games, the Head Count are happy. To make the Head Count politically conscious, you’d have to turn the Forum Romanum into the Circus Maximus!”

(Colleen McCullough, Masters of Rome)

@темы: книги