baby i love you but reading is not a group activity
OH, GOOD
ANOTHER DIRGE
wonderful news, Tess
this gentleman is here to describe our own globe to us
hi thank you so much for the help
and the arm that’s touching me right now
but I was actually reading okay by myself before you got here
i just
christ
i need a minute to look at something that isn’t your mustache
just a single minute
he’s behind me right now
isn’t he
he’s going to start reading to me again
i can feel it
no, darling, it’s wonderful
just wonderful
i was just wondering if you could back up another four and a half paces before you begin the next scroll
I’m smiling, so we can’t be fighting
I shall faint, I shall faint, I cannot bear it
you shall bear it
I have listened to his poetry since I was a girl
you have a strength within you that you do not even know yet
oh I do love this game
where I keep pushing you away
but you keep touching me
I love it so much that I think we should let Eliza have a turn
of where she’s pushing you away but for jokes
mm yes
I quite garden
I mean I quite agree
better the drop than this talk
hahahahahaha, oh James
dear heart, your elbow is actually pressing a bit hard into my chest
is it?
how awful
elbows are like that sometimes
perhaps if you stepped further away from touching me
it wouldn’t hurt quite so badly
eye contact, darling
eye contact, and smile, and back away so slowly he doesn’t realize we’re moving
darling Isabelle
don’t make any sudden moves
but I believe if I lean back a bit I can reach his lute
and club him with it before he reads us another sonnet
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All I can think is that Regency dresses look SO COMFORTABLE. How did they ever go to corsets and crinolines after, basically, nightdresses you could wear all day long?
I am laughing outwardly.
Could a wise human with real art-history knowledge inform me of the official titles for these pieces of art? I truly want to buy a poster sized version of #3…girls with a globe, to replicate this in my living room.
Just discovered The Toast and haven't laughed out loud this much in a very long time!! Great stuff!!
The gentleman in numbers 10-13 just keeps trying, doesn't he? (It does look uncannily to me like the same dude in every one.)
Yes! It's too late for me, but I have a daughter…
Unfortunately some men can fuck and keep on talking. They don't get any more interesting either.
Also, that harp in #2 is a joke. The pillar is far too thin and flimsy, although since the string spacing is quite extraordinarily wide, perhaps it's under less strain. Come to that, the soundbox is barely wide enough to hold the strings, let alone have space for soundholes. That's not how you hold your hands to play a harp, either. That cute little scroll at one end of the pillar is very typical of Welsh harps, but it's at the wrong end. The snake at the top is, er, interesting. I've never heard of snakes on harps like that, but who knows, maybe I've msised something. And the general shape is all wrong, the corner where the neck meets the soundbox is pretty much missing, and no wonder she's staring at it in total disbelief. Mind you, she may also be preoccupied by her lack of a right nipple.
(For anyone wondering about what historical harps actually looked like, Ardival make a nice variety, go and gaze at those. A friend has lent me one of their little wire-strung harps, and it's a gorgeous thing.)
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It's too obvious.
The joke involves the assumption that the (male) artist doesn't understand the shade being thrown by the female sitter.
I can't understand the main purpose of this post.