The more immigration systems you go through, the more you realise NO ONE has any idea. Opinions about immigrants, yes; idea, no!
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The more immigration systems you go through, the more you realise NO ONE has any idea. Opinions about immigrants, yes; idea, no!
Ginger ale β ginger beer! Only the blandest of beverages for our boy.
quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend
www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...
I need to live here and wear a duffel coat and solve impossible crimes.
And Civil List reform! Among his interests were...
They're not erased from history! They found Milton's copy and it's like 'this bit's nice' but it's mostly not even the particularly good bits!
Knew I had a lecture slide on this somewhere...
Doesn't Erasmus himself say something like this in Copia, that you can't just copy things in your commonplace book as a substitute?
AFAIK, there are no 18th-century editions of Tristram Shandy in which someone has drawn a portrait of Widow Wadman on the blank page. There are, however, at least several Oxford Worlds Classics copies in which this has been done, to various degrees of buxomness.
The Victorians used to bleach the margins of Early Modern books to make them more 'valuable', and now we hate this because we want to study the marginalia. Even though a lot of the marginalia (even Milton's on Shakespeare!) is the EM equivalent of 'Call me Ishmael -> his name.'
Hey guys, new chapter for your edited collection on the history of the book just dropped.
(Obviously 'you' do not do this, because you are normal. I, on the other hand:)
Guys, it's all over for me: I've purchased the little brass things that you put on the corners of your skirting boards. I'm a skiffer girlie now.
Not even ironically, this IS 18th-century literature. (I used to talk about BookTok and performative crying a lot when teaching the novel of sentiment.)
Hi, I have got your email and have absolutely meant to reply - so sorry! I've had a lot going on lately and my brain is all gone.
In honour of International Women's Day, excited to be the 18th-century interloper at this conference later this week - do come along if you're in London! ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
The AI history posts all have the exact same cadence, I can feel it infecting my mind /o\
You will never believe what happens when you live in London and try to google the cover of Brean Hammond's book on 18th-century professional writing that you know to be subtitled 'Hackney for Bread.'
Today I will answer all my outstanding emails and write a conference paper and do my paid work and absolutely not paint any skirting boards, so help me god.
BeebΓ©
Every time you post Stanley Tucci Puck it brings great joy into my life
A problem with where I'm now living is any time I start to feel particularly panicky about money, productivity, the world, etc. I can go and have a really fancy sandwich, which does not help on at least one front.
Mira Nair's The Woman of Colour, Jane Campion's The Last Man.
On the other hand I told him to watch Conclave, he asked 'isn't Stanley Tucci in that' and I answered (obviously) 'yes, he wears a slutty little robe'.
I feel like all you need to know about my social circle is conveyed by a friend telling me he was seeing someone new, me asking about her, and getting the reply: 'she lives near Bedford, the transport links are *excellent*'
Me too??
Drunk men on train from Waterloo talking about how there was a pigeon on the train:
'I'm not normally a pigeon fan, but that was a cute pigeon'
'I'm a good guy, I wanted the pigeon to be okay, but I felt like the other people in the carriage liked the pigeon more than they liked me, you know?'
I feel like I've seen rattan pedal bins? I mean obviously don't buy this from OKA, but it exists! www.oka.com/products/pan...
Oh I could make that SO NICE, they've even already moved the bathroom upstairs, just let me at it.