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Huw TD

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At Southampton there is a house I have admired, because from the side it looks so flat. Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Manchester Egyptian literature, literacy, textual transmission, and religion. 🏳️‍🌈

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · Nov 14

Out in print today: The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara!

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/transmiss...

Also available Open Access from the Bloomsbury website

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 11h

i hear the hard part is mashing up the tables

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 15h

No, but I'd love to see Gielgud as a Klingon.

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 20h

*extremely gregory the great voice*
non angli s-

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maxanene.bsky.social @maxanene.bsky.social · 20h

He's with the Angles now

Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 20h

RIP to Harald Godwinson who died 959 years ago today you would have loved Buckinghamshire Archives xx

A bit of the Bayeux Tapestry where Harold Godwinson gets shot right in the eye by an arrow.

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 20h

I mean 'downwardly mobile' is basically a description of the UK's professional middle class writ large at this point

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · Apr 13

babe, what's wrong, why are your cheeks so starved and why is your face so drawn? Why is despair in your heart and your face like the face of one who has made a long journey? Yes, why is your face burned from heat and cold, and why do you come here wandering over the pastures in search of the wind?'

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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 2d

For years my favorite example of a ridiculous yale college course was an English class called "Ways of Knowing in Nineteenth-Century American Literature". It represented to me the excessively niche "I only want to teach my fringe academic specialty" tendencies of the yale faculty and curriculum.

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon of a woman saying but she 's got a new hat surrounded by other people

Alt: Simpsons clip of Smithers appearing behind a group children in a shop, saying "but she 's got a new hat!"

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

"For it is of their nature that the jabberwocks of historical and antiquarian research burble in the tulgy wood of conjecture, flitting from one tum-tum tree to another."

Tolkien, "The Monsters and the Critics"

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. It's also a rather impoverished conception of 'political'.

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

Was there a zither player nearby?

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

Public prayer as stunt is a long-standing debate, iirc. It used to be the liberal objection to things like rosaries outside abortion clinics.

What struck me about the eucharistic procession in the photos was how traditional a lot of the stuff was. This clearly wasn't an ultraliberal parish.

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

be fair, that many registered voters are going to be a big help in the midterms

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

The obsession with GKC is such a tell for yank-brain, too.

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

You seem awfully sure they've read Chesterton. A lot of them seem to be into anime.

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

Oxford... do you mean the old CofE seminary near Reading?

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

Hm. I always had Raaaaab down as standard output from a rather middling public school (if he's not, he does a remarkably good impression).

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

You don't happen to know if he was on the third XV for rugby?

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

We get it, you're "adventurous" with food.

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

The only good piece of poetry by Ezra Pound:
allpoetry.com/poem/8501917...

Ancient Music by Ezra Pound at Allpoetry

Comments & analysis: Winter is icummen in, / Lhude sing Goddamm, / Raineth drop and staineth slop, / And how th

allpoetry.com

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed there are - and the BM has two people to work on them...

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Joel @storywonker.bsky.social · 1d

Meme:

OP: why do you need a specific word for being thrown out of a window

The burgomaster of Prague: i be in situations

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

Outside of a handful of Classical literary works and the Bible, our knowledge of antiquity is basically *all* new knowledge compared to, say, 1800. I certainly don't see a lack of new knowledge as the problem in Egyptology; indeed, the usual complaint is the relative lack of adequate analysis!

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

The party's final, most essential command....

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

My understanding was always "no supply without redress of grievance" was a threat *against* the king, but I guess I'm not freedom-lovin' enough to understand.