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A barrister. Catholic. Read PPE once upon a time.

Katılım Haziran 2020
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CJ
CJ@UnderSneege·
@MerrynSW @HenryGJeffreys Dracula, an Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes. You just want something that will reignite the spark. Wouldn’t worry about the intellectual aspect too much.
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Merryn Somerset Webb
Merryn Somerset Webb@MerrynSW·
Literary X: Book suggestions for a very bright 19 yo who doesn't read at all and hasn't since childhood. An easy to read short novel that will click her back in.. all ideas welcome.
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@BovrilG Just looked at the Porter section of my bookshelf again: "Shy" also fits. The bard of modern Albion.
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@BovrilG 2. Glad to see Jerusalem getting a mention. I would also suggest reading Max Porter: "Lanny" is maybe not as brilliant as "Grief" but it fits v neatly into this discussion.
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Bovril-Gesellschaft
Bovril-Gesellschaft@BovrilG·
Taking yet another diversion from the Western Hermetic Tradition series to write about the most inadvertently reactionary novel of my lifetime, the reenchantment of Albion and adult baby/diaper love. Link below.
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@CptHastings1916 It reminds me of those Wise adverts all over the Tube at the moment. You know the ones that compare a notional rubbish bank with the wonders of Wise - but give the rubbish bank the photos that catch the eye (see example).
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@CptHastings1916 I can't get that worked up about Banksy: he's just an over-promoted cartoonist with a flair for publicity. But the problem (for him) with this one is that he's made the guy look too cool.
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NPRG@CptHastings1916·
I'm conscious you can make any activity or artistic endeavour sound ridiculous by describing it reductively or mechanistically - cf. the whole "22 grown men chasing sportsball round a field huh de huh" - but Banksy's messaging is outstandingly trite & simplistic.
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"No no, you don't get it. The flag is blinding him - it's, like, stopping him from seeing clearly. It's over his eyes. The flag is making him blind & he's literally walking over the edge. Brilliant. It applies to all ideologies of course, it just happens to be a man in a suit."

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Michael Nichols
Michael Nichols@m_g_nichols·
@sebkrier You can go even more OG to Homer and Plato where there was a belief that reading and writing would debilitate memory.
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Séb Krier
Séb Krier@sebkrier·
Techno-anxiety is a remarkably consistent and repetitive pattern: 1482 book by Johannes Trithemius: "In Praise of Scribes: De Laude Scriptorum": williamwolff.org/wp-content/upl… 1858 New York Times editorial on the epistemic risks of the telegraph: nytimes.com/1858/10/25/arc… 1986 WaPo article on the use of calculators in school: washingtonpost.com/archive/local/… 2008 Atlantic piece on whether 'Google is making us stupid': theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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Harry Samuels
Harry Samuels@hnjsamuels·
@FurtherOr The fact it works rhythmically made me pause for thought! But from a look at the PDF of the first edition, there's no mark at all so couldn't be a tie.
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Further or Alternatively@FurtherOr·
So. In the Prelude in D flat, is the curved line over these two A flats in yellow a tie? Or a slur, like the B flat to A flat in green in the next bar?
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@hnjsamuels I agree now. I first instinctively read it as a tie but it must need a repeated dum dum dum the whole way through. Obvious now. But it sounds OK as a tie.
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@KyleButcher There was just something cricket-umpire-adjacent about it that seemed quite Anglican. Jacket & no tie? Jacket & tie? No tie at all and sleeves rolled-up? All normal. But the long white sleeves, tie and hat? I'm pleased that the Oratory shows such ecumenical spirit.
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Kyle Butcher
Kyle Butcher@KyleButcher·
@FurtherOr I'm pretty sure in the summer months I saw various people dressed like that going to/from the Oxford Oratory. I think in both cases its more common, even in summer, for congregants/DoMs/organists/church officials to have some kind of jacket. Choir members on the other hand...
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A saw a middle-aged man this morning walking down the road wearing a white shirt and tie (with no jacket) and a wide-brimmed sun hat. It struck me that he must be an Anglican going to/from church. Am I right in thinking that no Catholic dresses like that?
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Is it just me who thinks of noses when they hear the phrase "picky bits"?
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