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  • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    What you have captured here is pure, unadulterated, insanity. These are the ramblings of a person whose brain has betrayed them.

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      7 months ago

      These are the ramblings of a person whose brain has betrayed them.

      This is a sentence I shall have to find a good use for, it is eloquently crafted.

  • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    You need just a little bit of smarts to be actually insane. Mad and ignorant is just dull. Being fairly well read and also totally bat shit generates some of the most incredible things…

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      7 months ago

      I just love the phrase “frescoes, mosaics, sculptures and colonnades were created in the style of the Roman Empire that never existed.”

      Must be an awfully tough job for the artist to emulate a style that doesn’t exist!

  • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Just skimming the first bit, there’s some true info in the crazy. The Latin word for ‘brothel’ really is ‘lupanar’ and there really are a surprisingly large number of stone penises on the walls in the city. That the penises point anywhere is a popular myth, but isn’t true; they were apparently good luck charms. Some of the houses had back doors, but it wasn’t anywhere near all of them and there’s no evidence they were intended for prostitution.

    Skimming the rest looks like pure crazy, though.

    • rhadamanth_nemes@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      This is the point, these crazy fucks sprinkle in some truth so the rest of the bullshit looks more real.

      Gives them some defense against criticism too.