We’re brothers, you and I.
HISTORY MEME → one war: the second punic war
I am about to relate the most memorable of all wars that were ever waged: the war which the Carthaginians, under the conduct of Hannibal, maintained with the Roman people. For never did any states and nations more efficient in their resources engage in contest; nor had they themselves at any other period so great a degree of power and energy. They brought into action too no arts of war unknown to each other, but those which had been tried in the first Punic war; and so various was the fortune of the conflict, and so doubtful the victory, that they who conquered were more exposed to danger. The hatred with which they fought also was almost greater than their resources; the Romans being indignant that the conquered aggressively took up arms against their victors; the Carthaginians, because they considered that in their subjection it had been lorded over them with haughtiness and avarice. [x]
“When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it.”
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BEER IS PEOPLE
Inspired by the Miss Rheingold posters of the 1950s. [x]
With huge thanks to ireadthestars and studiorobin for their suggestions and feedback.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/8818c7c5be6e703b630a33ccca127d71/tumblr_mnb20e1fcb1qa0kz6o1_500.png)
BEER IS PEOPLE
Inspired by the Miss Rheingold posters of the 1950s. [x]
With huge thanks to ireadthestars and studiorobin for their suggestions and feedback.
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literature meme ∙ [3/6] prose writers ∙ virginia woolf
“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.” // “When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/8b525edfa5b9a1289541e4330d676b4d/tumblr_mnd2lief5H1qj1ofio1_500.png)
literature meme ∙ [3/6] prose writers ∙ virginia woolf
“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.” // “When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
