I have a Welsh name that is frankly very simple, phonetically, and people still screw it up constantly. I’ve realized that a lot of people just can’t read well and panic when they meet unfamiliar words. Welsh is just fine!
if gender is so innate why does it need deputized citizens to meticulously enforce it?
I’ve thought about doing this for my partner’s 50th birthday—a few years away, but the right amount of time perhaps to plan and fund a destination birthday party…
Famously upon the restoration of Charles II there was a parade held through London with prominent images of Dionysius; letting deposed Puritans know the boys were back in town, so to speak. I think we're gonna have to do that with Woke 2. Publicly cancel some prominent media men in the town square.
they stole an hour from women
The book I’ve got is an Italian translation and actually, as far as I can tell, might be the first place the supposed author name even appears!
Everyone attributes the book to this one guy, but all the early editions were anonymous, then eventually a “Mr Refuge” appears on the titles—but a few different first names get attached before he is linked some minor guy in the court of Henri IV… and thus cataloged evermore.
First thing today, discovered the supposed author of the book I am cataloging may not be a real person at all!
The translation was in verse and rhymed Aristotle with Twaddle. A+!
I sometimes wonder if we just named "soft power" something like "tall turgid thrusting power" would these guys have been more in favour of it and thereby less self undermining.
I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth
new dataset tracking every ICE detention death since 2003 uclaprisondata.org/ice-deaths-i...
The thief of time…
I’m going to see a performance of Tartuffe in a former stable
Going to a women’s college (albeit one in the disastrous process of going coed…) was formative for me. But working for the Christie’s Book Dept during a period of strong women’s leadership is where I learned I didn’t have to be an assistant forever.
I’ve benefited from the mentorship of many incredible women, and I think often about how so many of them built their careers in a time when there were very few other women at all in their fields. They paved the way for people like me. Raise a toast to our foremothers today.
I read this book 11 years ago and I still think about some scenes…
All of this is just profoundly evil.
For International Woman’s Day, a thread.
When you are old and grey and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep
W.B. Yeats
It just occurred to me that the only thing better than a new rose is an old rose. Plus, now I’ll have red, pink, orange, AND white: Desdemona.
I’ve been pretty good at avoiding frivolous purchases for the last month, but I’m about to impulse buy another David Austin rose (not exactly impulse! I’m asking if they can add it to my pending pre-order to save on shipping… I’m so responsible!!!)
"In his 16th century handwritten list of 15 grocery items with accompanying illustrations, Michaelangelo requested fish, bread, fennel soups, a herring ,anchovies, tortelli, and wine, among other items. He sketched the food items because his servant was illiterate."
It's archived in Florence.
👀 Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students hits different for me in light of this fact
Women’s colleges rock
It's always nice to have a book not only written, but also illustrated by Jean Cocteau.
#booksky #jeancocteau
Update on this: it turns out this is available to borrow at the Internet Archive. Yay! archive.org/details/fift...
Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!
They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
‘Often when I imagine you,
your wholeness cascades into many shapes.
You run like a herd of luminous deer,
and I am dark;
I am forest.’ ~ Rainer Maria Rilke. #BookWormSat
