Tabula Candida

Doodles of a distracted historian

Problem

Posted on August 18, 2021 by tabulacandida

A: I have 12 apples, Julie has 7 apples, and Nate has 5 apples. We want to take half of all our apples on the whale-watching trip, but the captain is kind of intense and creepy, and he keeps fingering a harpoon and muttering “I'll find that white whale yet.” What should we do?
B: Uh...
Caption: Somehow, all my math and English classes completely failed to prepare me for this moment.

“Would it help to know that the apples are spherical and the boat is an infinite frictionless plane?”

Falcon

Posted on July 7, 2021 by tabulacandida

Please remember to clean up after your rough beasts slouching towards Bethlehem.

Chekhov

Posted on December 6, 2020 by tabulacandida

There’s no such thing as an unloaded Chekhov’s gun.

Aeneas

Posted on October 14, 2020 by tabulacandida

I sing of arms and the teen.

Classics

Posted on August 30, 2020 by tabulacandida

The greatest achievement of modern scholarship may have been taking a literature full of stabbing, racy sex, and dirty jokes and making it stultifyingly boring.