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Medusa with the Head of Perseus, Luciano Garbati, 2008

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I adore how she carries his head low, at her side, and not aloft in triumph. This is not a self-aggrandizing hero lauding her great deed. This is a woman who wanted to be left the fuck alone.

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Also look at her body. The double hips. The asymetrical boobs. She’s thin, but she’s realistic as hell. That’s a real woman.

And the look in her eyes. Damn.

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I originally saw photos of Garbati’s Medusa a long time ago, but I specifically remember this post from earlier this year. Medusa was one of those pieces that really buried into my head and heart. Sounds silly, but just looking at it gives me strength.

Today I was lucky enough to see it in person. She’s incredible. And, something that the original pictures don’t show— she’s HUGE!

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The chemical name for vitamin C is “ascorbic acid”. I always used to wonder about this one. Is being ascorbic like being acerbic? Is it like being ascetic? Absorbent? Some combination of all of them?

Today I learned that scorbi is just a Latinish way of writing scurvy. So a-scorbi-c acid is “no-scurvy acid”.

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Eat this orange. It’s full of FuckScurvium.

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Pro-tip for English majors (or people who have Literature classes at any level) from a former English Major: that really boring story that you have to read for class and is 100+ years old? There’s an audiobook for it on youtube. 

Doesn’t matter if its a novel, a short story, a play, whatever. If its 100+ years old its almost certainly in the public domain and there are people who have published completely free audiobooks for it. Just search the title, its probably there, and you can set youtube at 2x speed if you want to get through it even quicker. Also check out librivox, since people posting these on youtube are usually posting librivox recordings. 

Also if there’s a classic work of literature that you want to enjoy but its super dense and seems tedious, just listen to the audiobook. For whatever reason, a lot of really dense old stories are more easily digested if they’re read to you than if you read it, at least in my experience. 

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