Trevor Plante

Have you started following @mobydickatsea.bsky.social ? Random quotes from the book. Great timeline cleanse.

Another one of Mina Kimes nephews.

Tonight, we’re expecting wind chills near 0.

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I am in the Bodleian Library in Oxford with a small printed book open on the desk in front of me. This is the text of a sermon, and it was printed in 1470 in Cologne at the printshop of a man named Arnold Therhoernen. The book is no larger than a paperback, and the text itself is short, just twelve leaves -- twenty-four pages -- long. But sitting here in the library with the book before me and opened on its first page is, I think, the most intense experience that I have had of the archival sublime, that sense of disbelief that something so significant, something of such conceptual magnitude, should be here on my desk among my own workaday effects -- laptop, notebook, pencil. It feels astonishing that I should be allowed to pick it up, hold it, turn its pages as though it were a novel I purchased at the train station. Why is it not under glass, sealed off, labelled and exhibited where crowds of schoolchildren might look but not touch? There's a name for this feeling: Stendahl Syndrome, after the French novelist who, on a visit to Florence, described the palpitations he experienced at being

so close to the tombs of the Renaissance masters. I feel like I am on the verge of tears.

A gorgeous description of "the archival sublime." 🗃️

From Dennis Duncan, "Index, A History of the" (2022)

This Commanders-Lions game is unreal.

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Optimist: the cup is half full

Pessimist: the cup is half empty

Archivist: either way, it is not permitted in the Reading Room

An archivist is basically a Swiss army knife.

Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives? Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?

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The CivWar Institute has announced the schedule for the 2025 conference, which will honor the life and legacy of its former director Peter Carmichael, who passed away last summer. I am honored to be included among the speakers. I look forward to honoring my friend. www.gettysburg.edu/civil-war-in...