‘The people’s mess, Dunboyne Diana’ - It’s a line from her song ‘When a good man cries’
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‘The people’s mess, Dunboyne Diana’ - It’s a line from her song ‘When a good man cries’
Fully expecting this series to continue all the way to ‘the Dunboyne Diana’, Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson
Delta Queen
An illegal war? In this economy? Surely not. fyi in this cartoon I got to say a swear! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Think we'd call this problematic
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‘Why do progressives, who justifiably insist on the power of money, media, history and structural forces, often seem to believe it should be easy to overcome these things?’
@geoffmann.bsky.social on how we should tackle the end times.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
One of the most beautiful songs every written
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One of the many fine works of the Irish poet, Paul Durcan, who passed away this weekend - few have ever written better on death
Keep on rockin in the free world, Lucinda Williams, Vega, 7 May
I’ll take Skye
And this gold nugget
Le Hoodoo Gurus - Leilani
youtu.be/PEMq4-AsyAc
James Baker Experience - I Can't Control Myself
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We lived happily during the war Ilya Kaminsky
This just gets more relevant all the time
Would also like to see a Wallopers - Wailers collaboration
Lyndsey Stonebridge
The books that made me
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Timothy Snyder has coined another phrase - ‘sadopopulism’ - that captures one of the defining qualities of this regime
I wrote a thing about Orwell's essays Please read and share. substack.com/@matthewclay...
Snap! The peerless Sicilian hinterlands, 6 April 2023
Chinua Achebe
“We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us.”
― Margaret Storm Jameson
Painting, everyone dressed in gorgeous colours, several shades of blue, pink, peach, yellow, showing a group of kneeling saints with golden halos in profile on the left side on a dark green lawn with many white blooms. They are lookinng at a figure on the center-right, Lysias, frontally sitting on a throne with small dark brown winged, angry little figures, the demons, flying away from his head. Standing figures on the right side. Lysias is sitting in front of a marble wall made from cream white, orange, and golden elements. In the background, to the left of two dark cypresses: Cosmas and Damian are thrown into the bottle-green sea. At the same height on the far left of the painting: An angel swoops down and rescues them. Sky with dark clouds, dramatic atmosphere. There is a stark contrast between the dark lawn, the dark sea, the dark sky and the bright clothes and brilliant golden halos. The scenes depict struggles between darkness and light and the colours reflect that. As ALL the people, even the ones throwing the saints into the sea, wear bright clothes one is tempted to interprete this as a sign of hope for all.
#FraFriday with a lot of action:
FRA ANGELICO
(ca. 1395-1455, born in Vicchio di Mugello, died in Rome)
St Cosmas and St Damian are thrown into the sea, saved by an Angel, and liberate Lysias from demons, ca. 1438-40
Nothing is so beautiful as Spring -
"In Greenland what we saw was American imperialism with no clothes. Naked and vain."
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The manuscript was already complete with the intention that it be published after his death, but Solstad had changed his mind and decided, with encouragement from his wife and publisher, that it should be released this year
A new, final Solstad novel, will be published later this year
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Shoulda won the Nobel - vale Dag Solstad
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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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