Three Thoughts for Outside Context Day
Oct. 14th, 2024 07:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
supergee"There goes the neighborhood"--unidentified Native American, 1492
"He knew the world was round-o
His balls hung to the ground-o
That navigatin', masturbatin'
Son of a bitch Columbo"--T.S. Eliot or one of his collaborators
"Columbus and his band slammed into these shores with all the force of a jet into a skyscraper"--The Rude Pundit
"He knew the world was round-o
His balls hung to the ground-o
That navigatin', masturbatin'
Son of a bitch Columbo"--T.S. Eliot or one of his collaborators
"Columbus and his band slammed into these shores with all the force of a jet into a skyscraper"--The Rude Pundit
Re: Apparently not.
Date: 2024-10-14 08:37 pm (UTC)And of course he was not an openly practicing Jew when he became a favorite of Queen Isabella (who, simultaneously with sending Columbus out to explore the Americas was LAUNCHING THE SPANISH INQUISITION against Jews and Moriscos).