Abstruse Disciplines
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Follower of dead languages and political cats
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and she sent him away as cold as a snowball, saying his prayers too.
November 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
and she sent him away as cold as a snowball, saying his prayers too.
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What freezings have I felt, what days seen!
What old December’s bareness every where!
What old December’s bareness every where!
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
What freezings have I felt, what days seen!
What old December’s bareness every where!
What old December’s bareness every where!
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I have been thinking about "we shed as we pick up" all day today, since seeing the news that Stoppard died.
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march
November 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I have been thinking about "we shed as we pick up" all day today, since seeing the news that Stoppard died.
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Apparently it’s World Embroidery Day so maybe you’ll enjoy this aerial landscape I made of my beloved childhood haunt - the White Horse of Uffington. An @nationaltrust.org.uk site from the later Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Find out more here www.oxfordarchaeology.com/uffington-wh...
July 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Apparently it’s World Embroidery Day so maybe you’ll enjoy this aerial landscape I made of my beloved childhood haunt - the White Horse of Uffington. An @nationaltrust.org.uk site from the later Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Find out more here www.oxfordarchaeology.com/uffington-wh...
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Almost certainly the best photo I will ever take from an Iron Age Hill fort of the sun setting over an estuary as summer segues majestically into autumn.
August 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Almost certainly the best photo I will ever take from an Iron Age Hill fort of the sun setting over an estuary as summer segues majestically into autumn.
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We love a secret doorway.
📷The secret door in the Library at Osterley, London by John Hammond
📷The secret door in the Library at Osterley, London by John Hammond
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
We love a secret doorway.
📷The secret door in the Library at Osterley, London by John Hammond
📷The secret door in the Library at Osterley, London by John Hammond
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Give me a Brecht
Give me a Brecht
Brecht me off a piece of that
Kicht Kacht Bar
Give me a Brecht
Brecht me off a piece of that
Kicht Kacht Bar
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Give me a Brecht
Give me a Brecht
Brecht me off a piece of that
Kicht Kacht Bar
Give me a Brecht
Brecht me off a piece of that
Kicht Kacht Bar
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How look I
That I should seem to lack humanity
So much as this fact comes to?
That I should seem to lack humanity
So much as this fact comes to?
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
How look I
That I should seem to lack humanity
So much as this fact comes to?
That I should seem to lack humanity
So much as this fact comes to?
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Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
For a bettir future
We neede artes and humanityes
artshumanities.berkeley.edu/news/humanit...
Noble are the manatees
For a bettir future
We neede artes and humanityes
artshumanities.berkeley.edu/news/humanit...
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees | Division of Arts & Humanities
artshumanities.berkeley.edu
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
For a bettir future
We neede artes and humanityes
artshumanities.berkeley.edu/news/humanit...
Noble are the manatees
For a bettir future
We neede artes and humanityes
artshumanities.berkeley.edu/news/humanit...
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Tomorrow? O, that’s sudden!
November 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Tomorrow? O, that’s sudden!
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Two seasons collide at Fountains Abbey ❄️ 🍂
As winter ushers in the first frost, autumn clings on to its last few leaves.
As winter ushers in the first frost, autumn clings on to its last few leaves.
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Two seasons collide at Fountains Abbey ❄️ 🍂
As winter ushers in the first frost, autumn clings on to its last few leaves.
As winter ushers in the first frost, autumn clings on to its last few leaves.
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Take a moment to soak in the beauty of nature: see the colour reflected on the tranquil waters, admire autumn's dazzling palette, and breathe.
📷: The Winkworth Boathouse by Cheryl G
📷: The Winkworth Boathouse by Cheryl G
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Take a moment to soak in the beauty of nature: see the colour reflected on the tranquil waters, admire autumn's dazzling palette, and breathe.
📷: The Winkworth Boathouse by Cheryl G
📷: The Winkworth Boathouse by Cheryl G
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Leaf stomping potential: 10/10
You don't just have to admire nature from afar, you can absolutely frolic in it, too.
📷: Anglesey Abbey by David Badger
You don't just have to admire nature from afar, you can absolutely frolic in it, too.
📷: Anglesey Abbey by David Badger
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Leaf stomping potential: 10/10
You don't just have to admire nature from afar, you can absolutely frolic in it, too.
📷: Anglesey Abbey by David Badger
You don't just have to admire nature from afar, you can absolutely frolic in it, too.
📷: Anglesey Abbey by David Badger
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Another good comment. "The arts and humanities classroom really helps us understand the world. We’re comfortable being in complexity. We're comfortable with the question and not the answer. And if there's a time when there's not an answer and we don't know exactly what to do, it’s this moment."
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Another good comment. "The arts and humanities classroom really helps us understand the world. We’re comfortable being in complexity. We're comfortable with the question and not the answer. And if there's a time when there's not an answer and we don't know exactly what to do, it’s this moment."
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Poetrye, theatre, storyes, daunse, art, scholarlye researche about literature, historye, and language -- all of these thinges mattir more now, not less.
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Poetrye, theatre, storyes, daunse, art, scholarlye researche about literature, historye, and language -- all of these thinges mattir more now, not less.
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strew’d with sweets,
Which they distill now in the curbed time,
To make the coming hour o’erflow with joy,
And pleasure drown the brim.
Which they distill now in the curbed time,
To make the coming hour o’erflow with joy,
And pleasure drown the brim.
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
strew’d with sweets,
Which they distill now in the curbed time,
To make the coming hour o’erflow with joy,
And pleasure drown the brim.
Which they distill now in the curbed time,
To make the coming hour o’erflow with joy,
And pleasure drown the brim.
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Yn a free society, universitye-level studye of the artes and humanityes sholde not be avaylable onlye to the wealthye and privileged.
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Yn a free society, universitye-level studye of the artes and humanityes sholde not be avaylable onlye to the wealthye and privileged.
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the bricks are alive at this day to testify it;
therefore deny it not.
therefore deny it not.
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
the bricks are alive at this day to testify it;
therefore deny it not.
therefore deny it not.
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We’ll none of that
November 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
We’ll none of that
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Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!
November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!
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Vast sin-concealing chaos
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Vast sin-concealing chaos
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Doubt truth to be a liar
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Doubt truth to be a liar
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Let him have time to see his friends his foes,
And merry fools to mock at him resort;
Let him have time to mark how slow time goes
In time of sorrow, and how swift and short
His time of folly and his time of ;
And ever let his crime
Have time to wail th’ abusing of his time.
And merry fools to mock at him resort;
Let him have time to mark how slow time goes
In time of sorrow, and how swift and short
His time of folly and his time of ;
And ever let his crime
Have time to wail th’ abusing of his time.
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Let him have time to see his friends his foes,
And merry fools to mock at him resort;
Let him have time to mark how slow time goes
In time of sorrow, and how swift and short
His time of folly and his time of ;
And ever let his crime
Have time to wail th’ abusing of his time.
And merry fools to mock at him resort;
Let him have time to mark how slow time goes
In time of sorrow, and how swift and short
His time of folly and his time of ;
And ever let his crime
Have time to wail th’ abusing of his time.
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He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf
Bay Area readers, the Menlo Park Friends of the Library book sale is coming up! 2:00-5:00 pm on Fri, Nov 14 and 10:00 am-2:00 pm on Sat, Nov 15 at the main branch of the library (on Alma Street near the Caltrain stop). Most things will be priced at $1 or $2. Check it out! friendsmpl.org
Friends of the Menlo Park Library
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November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Bay Area readers, the Menlo Park Friends of the Library book sale is coming up! 2:00-5:00 pm on Fri, Nov 14 and 10:00 am-2:00 pm on Sat, Nov 15 at the main branch of the library (on Alma Street near the Caltrain stop). Most things will be priced at $1 or $2. Check it out! friendsmpl.org