I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times
07.03.2026 23:44 — 👍 7369 🔁 2083 💬 69 📌 109I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times
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b&w photo of a chicken coop on a balcony with a woman bending into the coop and a small dog leaping up to it
Tending a chicken coop on a balcony high up on a Parisian building in the 9th arrondissement in 1917 (@gallicabnf.bsky.social, @labnf.bsky.social) 🗃️
27.02.2026 05:17 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1If it was a pirate, it was a very artistic pirate.
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Shakespeare folk know the Bellott vs Mountjoy case of 1612. Shakespeare was a key witness to events ~ 10 years before.
Other key witness? Humphrey Fludd - trusted courier between Neville & his secretary in Paris, 1600.
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Booth's most baffling crux of the Sonnets (Times pencil or my pupil pen).
#ShakespeareSunday
Booth's most baffling crux of the Sonnets (Times pencil or my pupil pen).
#ShakespeareSunday
Epigraph from first work in Shakespeare's name compared with Nevill's motto:
Vilia miretur vulgus
* Let boors admire base things
Nevill's motto: Ne vile velis
* Wish for no base thing
#epigraphytuesday
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This moment is bringing out the best in some of us (like this speaker) and bringing out the worst in others of us. This is a time for choosing to live a life that you're proud of, or not. ❤️
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RULE - The 1st Commandment, Sonnet pair 109-110.
1st Commandment: Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Sonnet 110: A God in love to whom I am confined.
(excerpt from Booth, S, 'Shakespeare's Sonnets').
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#ShakespeareSunday
Sonnet 16 tends to be eclipsed by the grandeur of its predecessor Sonnet 15, When I consider everything that grows. However, Sonnet 16 is a continuation of Sonnet 15 (as Booth notes). This sonnet pair (or poem of 28 lines) maps to TILT in the grid setting of the Dedication to the Sonnets. The battle between the Author and Time is explicit in Sonnet 15 line 14. And then, Sonnet 16 line 10 provides what seems to me a perfect “miniature” of the Tilt – parenthesized: Times lance (the pencil/paintbrush) battles with the author’s lance (the pen).
Sonnet 16 continues from Sonnet 15 (Booth, 1970).
This longer poem of 28 lines maps to TILT in the grid setting of the Dedication).
Sonnet 16 gives a perfect miniature of the TILT (in parentheses):
Time's lance (the pencil/paintbrush) v the Author’s lance (the pen). www.academia.edu/125775909/Th...
If it was a pirate, it was a very artistic pirate.
28.01.2026 12:15 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Hendrick Avercamp: deaf, mute, but creator of some of the most instantly recognisable, atmospheric and joyous winter scenes in art. A favourite of mine.
27.01.2026 22:37 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Portrait of real Duke of Orsino who attended 12th night play with Queen Elizabeth I
New evidence supporting Hotson's theory of 6 January 1601 as the first night of Twelfth Night (and why that matters). #shakespearesunday
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The 24-hour clock at Hampton Court Palace - installed in 1540.
Time and 6 Sonnet numbers…
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Portrait of real Duke of Orsino who attended 12th night play with Queen Elizabeth I
New evidence supporting Hotson's theory of 6 January 1601 as the first night of Twelfth Night (and why that matters). #shakespearesunday
www.academia.edu/126533632/Ne...
#shakespearesunday
11.01.2026 11:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount
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Died (alas!) on this day in 1619, in London, the great miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard. Here by himself in 1577. Surely a top candidate for Most Dashing Renaissance Painter!
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#MosaicMonday - From the tablinum of the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii (VI.8.3): a troupe of performers prepares behind the scenes. Some lovely details here, such as the costume-fitting on the right. #Pompeii #Art 🏺
Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (9986)
#Ravel died on 28 December 1937. Here he is on a 1922 piano roll playing Pavane pour une infante défunte: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn6_...
28.12.2025 11:25 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1#shakespearesunday
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Sonnet 16 tends to be eclipsed by the grandeur of its predecessor Sonnet 15, When I consider everything that grows. However, Sonnet 16 is a continuation of Sonnet 15 (as Booth notes). This sonnet pair (or poem of 28 lines) maps to TILT in the grid setting of the Dedication to the Sonnets. The battle between the Author and Time is explicit in Sonnet 15 line 14. And then, Sonnet 16 line 10 provides what seems to me a perfect “miniature” of the Tilt – parenthesized: Times lance (the pencil/paintbrush) battles with the author’s lance (the pen).
Sonnet 16 continues from Sonnet 15 (Booth, 1970).
This longer poem of 28 lines maps to TILT in the grid setting of the Dedication).
Sonnet 16 gives a perfect miniature of the TILT (in parentheses):
Time's lance (the pencil/paintbrush) v the Author’s lance (the pen). www.academia.edu/125775909/Th...
Pieter de Hooch The Bedroom, 1658/1660
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Jealous girlfriend meme with Donald Trump smiling at Zohran Mamdani and Stephen Miller looking jealous
21.11.2025 22:10 — 👍 4330 🔁 723 💬 61 📌 58A democracy isn’t (just) an electoral system. It’s also a culture of deliberation, debate, sensitivity to public concern, attention to social movements and community leaders, respect for civil rights and minority interests, free expression and association and due process. How’s your country doing?
22.10.2025 22:29 — 👍 160 🔁 58 💬 14 📌 4A poem?
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