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1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
And it's only £103.63.
wouldn't it be wonderful though if...?!
When I got to the part that the assignment was a dream, I laughed out loud!
The number of US nationals applying for British citizenship is soaring - up 42% during the first year of Trump’s second term. #TrumpFlight
in the Guardian 2012, could be straight out of one of the festivals in the Outline trilogy!
#rachelcusktogether Cusk on 'A Life's work': '"If everyone were to read this book,...the propagation of the human race would virtually cease, which would be a shame." The reviewer was a woman. I had met her, in fact, at some literary festival or other years before. She had seemed harmless enough.'
#rachelcusktogether
V interested in Cusk's approach to autobiog & fiction: 'Whom does Cusk expose in the process of shielding herself? ... her travel book, The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy (2009), was pulped after someone she wrote about launched a breach of privacy suit.' Sydney review of bks
#rachelcusktogether
The animals are still with me. I dreamed my cat, who went missing for 13 months, jumped out of the back of the car, walked across a busy road nearly getting run over by a vehicle towing a wagon; I followed, she crossed back as did I. She suddenly picked up speed, & tore away.
It is unfortunate that so many people are suspicious of vaccines now. How did we get here? A sign of diminished trust in science and more generally.
“Memory conceals itself in the quietest moments ... the smell of turpentine, the taste of Victoria plums, a pile of orange peel, a freshly ploughed field.”
Shelley Klein, The See-Through House
Whoa.
“This vaccine, what we term a universal vaccine, elicits a far broader response that is protective against not just the flu virus, not just the Covid virus, not just the common cold virus, but against virtually all viruses, and as many different bacteria as we've tested, and even allergens.”
I remember when the film came out, 1971.
I like that! Source?
Mark Rothko canvas, red on red
Happy year of the fire horse
[Mark Rothko, Red on Red, 1969]
It never ends! I'm on read 3 all the way through. Once you're in, you're in!
Good to hear!
It's a parable of our times. Too many examples like this. We know the ones near us, but they're all over. I'm glad to hear they're still about. Hopefully they'll find another home.
Terrible about the willow tits
Very sad
Terrible backwards step in Western societies including UK and US
What's the painting and the book?
'You can meet an old mushroom forager and you can meet a bold forager, but you'll never meet an old, bold mushroom forager!'
'Every plant is edible once!'
Looks like a great exhibition bringing nature, humanities and science together, at the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale.
Jean Valentine, Sanctuary
Thank you for this. I rarely look at Twitter/X now so it's great that you are also sharing on BlueSky.
The picture and the frame If a picture frame gets broken, as the result of a minor earth tremor, you take the picture to a good picture framer and he makes it a frame that may be better than the original. But if a picture is ugly, as the result of some basic artistic flaw, and its frame remains intact, you will not need it unless you are short of wood for the stove. It is the same thing with an idea: if its frame is broken, you find a stronger, more solid one for it. But if the idea is broken, its sound frame will be no more than a sad memory you preserve like a frustrated shepherd who keeps the bell from one of his rams after it has been killed by wolves.
Mahmoud Darwish T. by Catherine Cobham.
I love this!
