Tabula Candida

Doodles of a distracted historian

Green

Posted on January 13, 2022 by tabulacandida

Gatsby wasn’t that great at color theory.

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

A: Turning and turning in the widening gyre the falcon cannot hear the falconer.
B: Woah, that's really profound. Such a striking image of the collapse of social bonds and--
A: Get back here, you stupid bird! No more freeze-dried mouse heads for you, buddy!
B: *Sigh*

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.