anghraine: English: a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages & rifles through their pockets for spare vocab (english)
Anghraine ([personal profile] anghraine) wrote2024-03-06 11:38 am

Tumblr crosspost (11 November 2020)

Today’s favorite wtf line from my reading:

But the systematic roughness of the English genre yields darker riches.

(Still Braden’s Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition; pg. 204)

Tagged: #his arguments get pretty strained at points and imo this is def one of them but ... just #lol