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if i was a young dandy in the 1800s tumblr would be such a great place. i would hear about it and immediately interpret it as “something of a town hall of the soul…. a corkboard of the mind! a ha! ahahaha!” and start clapping with odd space between each clap. my first post would be “Here’s something for all of you out there- a joke I heard passing through Crane’s Alleyway. The wise bull and the dull man walked between two great oaks- one of red wood, and the other of white. The dull man said “such great, sturdy wood- to build a house, or perhaps a fine campfire!” and deployed his saw with great ease. The wise bull simply chuckled and said “For you, perhaps, this wood makes a fine house… but for me, it is a house in itself!” and took it upon himself to enjoy the shade the great trees provided!”
ivan coyote, from judging a book, from The Slow Fix, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2008:
[“Today I sat next to a man who immediately informed me he was on his way to Europe to work with the Christian embassy, spreading the good will of the Lord. Before the plane was off the ground, he asked me if I had a girlfriend. I took this line of inquiry to mean that he thought I was a clean-cut young man, and therefore possessed a soul worth saving. I told him the truth; I did have a girlfriend, and no, we were not married yet, and yes, we were indeed living together and yes, I was aware that we were living in sin. I smiled inside at the time as just how much sin he didn’t realize we were actually living in, and pondered telling him I was not as nice, young, or male as he appeared to think I was. Then I realized how much fun it was to listen to a fundamentalist Christian lecture me on how God wanted me to marry my girlfriend, how the family unit in this country was depending on me, and how not fun it might immediately become if he were to find out he was brushing thighs with a full-blown sodomite disguised as a harmless wayward Catholic boy in a crisp shirt and tie. I knew there was as much chance of me changing his mind about anything as there was that he would ever lead me back to the path of righteousness, so I told him he was right, and that I was going to propose to my girlfriend as soon as I had enough money saved up to buy her a decent conflict-free diamond ring. He took this to mean that he had helped me see the light, and continued the Lord’s work all the way up to Toronto. When the plane finally landed, he shook my hand and told me that I seemed like a good person, and that if I were ever in Guelph, I should look up his son, who had strayed from God’s path a little and had pierced his eyebrow, and was pursuing an art degree. “I’d like him to meet some friends with ambition. People who realize their appearances matter. I pray that he grows up to be just like you.”
“I hope God answers that prayer,” I told him. “I really do.”]
this looks like a shot from the What We Do In the Shadows-style version of Revenge of the Sith
[ID] GIFs of Hayden Christensen being interviewed and saying “It’s not really a mystery. Everyone knows that I’m going to the Dark Side. It’s kind of like the Titanic Sinking.” [End ID]
