Lynx hi-jinks jinxed, methinks.
Second pair of lynx captured in Cairngorms bbc.in/4fVkKCS
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*sings*
Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home! With my arrows shootin
Home, suitors executin
Home, life reconstitutin
Penelope for me
Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home! With my arrows shootin
Home, suitors executin
Home, life reconstitutin
Penelope for me
I can't get over how great Ralph Fiennes looks as Odysseus in the upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey called The Return. I totally buy him as someone who's been gone for 20 years and is now about to make those suitors PAY...
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Translating Burgess/Burgess Translating. News of a funded PhD studentship at University of Manchester & the Anthony Burgess Foundation. The deadline for applications is 28 February.
findaphd.com/phds/project/t…
findaphd.com/phds/project/t…
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Adam Roberts retweeted
It's Kipling's birthday today, and at Poems Ancient and Modern, @arrroberts looks at the underappreciated "Harp Song of the Dane Women."
poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-…
poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-…
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The daffodils of the underworld. open.substack.com/pub/profadamro…
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*sings*
Nosferatu, Nosferatu, men have named you
You're so like the baldy with the pointy teeth
Is it merely you're vampire-y that they've blamed you
For that Nosferatu strangeness underneath
Nosferatu, Nosferatu, men have named you
You're so like the baldy with the pointy teeth
Is it merely you're vampire-y that they've blamed you
For that Nosferatu strangeness underneath
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I review Cannadine's history of 19C Britain, "Victorious Century", and am not altogether positive: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/cannadines-v…
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"Ding dong merrily on high
I am a police inspector:
I will force you to recall
The lives your family wrecked, here:
Ti-i-i-i-iii-i-i-i-i-i-iiii-i-i-i-i-i
-iiimeywimey
Inspector will reveal all."
Oh look. It's Priestley's AN INSPECTOR CARROLS
I am a police inspector:
I will force you to recall
The lives your family wrecked, here:
Ti-i-i-i-iii-i-i-i-i-i-iiii-i-i-i-i-i
-iiimeywimey
Inspector will reveal all."
Oh look. It's Priestley's AN INSPECTOR CARROLS
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Mayor: You cast that statue of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?
Sculptor: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Mayor: what
Sculptor: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Mayor: what
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Merry Christmas, all. On my Substack I blog about one of Dickens's Christmas Novels that isn't "A Christmas Carol", and which you therefore haven't read: open.substack.com/pub/profadamro…
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Locus "gifts for your Dad" suggestions. As a Dad myself, I approve. locusmag.com/2024/12/6-scie…
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Harold Bloom's experiences with Masud Khan were similar, if not as protracted as Godley's.
medium.com/adams-notebook…
medium.com/adams-notebook…
Masud Khan was a protegé of D.W. Winnicott and at one point the darling of British psychoanalysis. He was also sadistic, manipulative and a shameless self-promoter. On the podcast, Duncan Wilkins reads Wynne Godley’s 2001 account of his work with Khan: lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-v…
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Adam Roberts retweeted
Great to talk with @jakecasella of @AncillaryReview about @arrroberts' The This for the Meal of Thorns podcast - shout out to @bigreadcast who have also done excellent episodes on Roberts (and who I mention in this discussion). #sciencefiction
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/12/16/a-m…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/12/16/a-m…
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I get that people like "Love Will Tear Us Apart", and "Atmosphere" (though there's something delicate and softly tumbling about that song that makes it, to me, uncharacteristic Joy Division) -- but for me "Transmission" is their greatest song.
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