ardenhamlet:

We must never forget that the two are brothers. When one destroys the other, their kinship adds to murder something ‘most foul, strange and unnatural’.

—Harold Jenkins, from his critical introduction of Hamlet

dogdayafternoon1975:

new favourite cat photo just dropped

Valuing The Human

An innocent little six year old was mercilessly gunned down by someone in a fit of road rage recently.

I wondered how was this possible?

The Lord led me to the story of Cain and Abel in the book of Genesis.

Cain and Abel were two brothers, the children of Eve, “the mother of all the living.”

When her first son was born, Eve called him “Cain,” a name related to a word for “lament” or “wail.”…

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I don’t think the new Sandman show would do it, but it would be hilarious and accurate if Cain and Abel had Kentucky accents. As its funnily enough, their canon earth location.

01/07/2022

Keep your CHIN up!

JOKE-OGRAPHY:
John’s most recent attempt at helping Jesus swim… requires?… him to strike our Lord to render Him unconscious.  When Jesus doesn’t move for a while, John begins to assume he’s accidentally killed his holy Cousin, so he begins quoting the part of scripture where Cain is cursed by God for killing Abel.

“Cain Killing Abel”, 1511, Albrecht Dürer.

orpheuslament:

orpheuslament:

After Abel (wip), Dante Émile

[text ID: Cain takes a swig at his vodka & tonic & shows you the scar on his forehead.
He tells you he’s picked up some Spanish in his travels, signals to the waiter and says
me & my brother, you see, we were uña y carne.
This is what happens when God slips between two sleeping bodies,
he ruins them. /end ID]

luthienne:

Gregory Orr,The Caged Owl; “Three Songs”

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