Kate Winslet as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995)

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Car il y a bien de la différence entre détruire le principal fondement d’une fable et en altérer quelques incidents, qui changent presque de face dans toutes les mains qui les traitent. Ainsi Achille, selon la plupart des poètes, ne peut être blesse qu’au talon, quoique Homère le fasse blesser au bras et ne le croie invulnérable en aucune partie de son corps… Et c’est à propos de quelque contrariété de cette nature qu’un ancien commentateur de Sophocle remarque fort bien, « qu’il ne faut point s’amuser à chicaner les poètes pour quelques changements qu’ils ont pu faire dans la fable ; mais qu’il faut s’attacher à considérer l’excellent usage qu’ils ont fait de ces changements, et la manière ingénieuse dont ils ont su accommoder la fable à leur sujet. »

-Jean Racine, dans sa « Seconde Préface » d’Andromaque. 1676

“For there is quite some difference between destroying the foundations of a story and altering a few of its events, which change almost diametrically in all hands that treat them. Thus Achilles, according to most poets, can only be wounded in the heel, regardless that Homer has him wounded in the arm and does not believe him to be invulnerable in any part of his body… And it’s in reference to some controversy of this nature that an ancient commentator of Sophocles remarks very fittingly, “that one mustn’t amuse oneself by ridiculing poets for some changes they may make in the story, but one must apply oneself to considering the excellent use they have made of those changes, and the ingenious manner in which they have known well enough to accommodate the story to their subject.””

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Oldfashioned, newfashioned - imagined conversation

Cam: An' ef ye wanna call sumone jest press th' phone icon.
Volty: Which one is that?
Cam: That one, th' phone icon, there, ye can see et.
Volty: That doesn't look like a phone at all! I am holding your phone, it's a rectangle, it's nothing like that curved thing!

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Stavronikita: the Sinking World, Andreas Franke

Via Daily Mail & My Modern Met

This is strange but ok I kinda like it.

Also lol gratuitous rococo lesbians.

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