Optimistically Pessimistic

snowthunder:

towblerone:

ber-the-conquewor:

insieme-per-la-vittoria:

omgjersey:

vladsexual:

loveclaire:

“One such woman leader, Qin Liangyu, was the wife of a native tribal chieftain in the western province of Sichuan.”

The Search for Modern China - Jonathan D. Spence

So…I’m going to have a threesome? In China? In the seventeenth century? With a married couple? That’s pretty kinky I guess.

“He stopped, attentive, like a man listening; for sight could not go far though the dark air and thick mist.”

-The Divine Comedy

…KAY

“Carefully inscribed was a line he recognized from the Book of Ecclesiastes: HE THAT INCREASETH KNOWLEDGE INCREASETH SORROW.” Assassin’s Creed: Renaissance, Oli Bowbow

Oh, okay.

“And their words pleased Ha’mor, and She’chem Ha’mor’s son.”

…The Holy Bible. Lemme get something else.

“Boracic: of or containing boron.”

GOD DAMN IT, WEBSTER’S NEW ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY.

“Thou hast hit it. Come, sit on me.” - Petruchio, Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew (2.1.198)

Oh.

“Try this bread with the cheesy lemon spread - page 143.”

I see.

“Then, hoisting up the victim’s head from the trampled earth, they held her fast as the captain of men Pisistratus slashed her throat.”

Oh dear… 
Maybe I shouldn’t keep the Odyssey so close to my computer…

“Some folks have no understanding of the fine arts.”

;)