That's for those of you who have absolutely no interest in pirates

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This is just to register my approval that the Roma Sub Rosa novel that prominently features pirates (bandits who sail the Nile, whatever), a case of mistaken identity, and an abduction by same, also closes with a recognition scene between two long-lost twins and their estranged father. Let it never be said A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was the last great flourish of the Hellenistic romance.

rushthatspeaks called this the best music video they had seen in some time and I cannot disagree: FKA twigs, "Two Weeks." It feels like the closest anyone is going to get to filming some of the early novels of Tanith Lee.

Have a portrait of Egon Schiele.

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This is a portrait of a rather soft (but ratty) young man trying to look hard and haggard.

I've always found him rather beautiful, although not because of the resemblance to his paintings (which for me mostly exists in the posture and expression—the tilt of the head, the hand, the quizzical eyes). He's so very young. He's younger now than my brother. The shirt and the tie don't really make him look older and the influenza made sure he didn't get the chance.

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Schiele is a remarkable painter, but I doubt that I'd have warmed to him personally.