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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 8h

it's extremely autumn in London today isn't it, had been somewhat autumn until now but today the whole season's really smacking us around the face

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 9h

You know of Martin Rowson’s The Wasteland? Apologies if I’ve already asked you this; I’ve somewhat lost track of replies to this!

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 9h

I have a very vague recollection of having seen an image of this, though as to when and where (if I even did)…

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 9h

Did you know the next MSA Conference in the UK will be a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social? And if you can't make it to the UK next summer, there will be opportunities to present in online panels and roundtables at this conference. More information in the CFP:

The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...

www.moderniststudies.org

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 10h

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 10h

We’re going to make migrants read Ian McEwan? Now that’s a hostile environment.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 12h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 15h

Today I am mostly thinking about the popular inter-war literary genre 'animal stories written by fascists'. Join me.

Title page of a collection of animal stories by Henry Williamson: TARKA THE OTTER, SALAR THE SALMON, THE EPIC OF BROCK THE BADGER, CHAKCHEK THE PEREGRINE.

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 12h

I’ve long had a vague idea I should write a history of early-twentieth-century pockets.

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 14h

Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.

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ʙᴜη ₊˚⊹⋆ @bun.is.a.cutie.fyi · 22h

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 13h

The amount of scholars who’ve admitted their dislike of Woolf to me at late stages of conference drinks…

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 15h

Love this - I've been making the connection between Wimsey and that Eco passage ever since I read both at a formative age

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 16h

I’m afraid I have the winning unhinged literary opinion.

bsky.app/profile/raha...

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 23h

You ABSOLUTELY win the unhinged literary opinion meme forever

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 17h

It is - thank you!

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Regular Mongoose @meeptheschmorp.bsky.social · 18h

It's called Green Ice, by Adina, and is worth every second: archiveofourown.org/series/662837

Green Ice - Adina - Jeeves & Wooster, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse, Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers, WODEHOUSE P. G. - Works [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

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Susan Shaped @susanshaped.bsky.social · 18h

On the train, squintingly rereading The Waste Land on my phone, agreeing. There's a good start to a Tuesday morning.

Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 20h

Reading a news report from 1932 on the secretary of the British Museum lamenting the loss of a "great body of social history of the most curious kind." His suggestion? Concealing microphones and talkie cameras in the bars of country pubs and other places to capture the life of the people.

a woman is sitting at a desk with her eyes closed and the words `` that 's creepy '' written on the screen .

Alt: A gif of a woman sitting at a desk turning to a person standing beside her and saying "That's creepy."

media.tenor.com

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Prudence and the Crow @prudenceandthecrow.bsky.social · 19h

Paper arguing this in the comments; I want to start every Tuesday morning with a take this good

Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 23h

You ABSOLUTELY win the unhinged literary opinion meme forever

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 23h

This is amazing, headcanon 100% accepted (see comments for details)

Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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David Brady @antiprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

Different houses at Eton, and Bertie was up at Magdalen where he scraped a gentleman's fourth, while Lord Peter graced Balliol with his presence, effortlessly acquiring a 1st class degree
I suspect Bertie was a rugger bugger, but Lord Peter wielded an elegant bat for the University cricket team

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Sarah 💫 @harrietvane.bsky.social · 1d

I am convinced that I once read an article/letter/something where the writer (Sayers? Someone else?) claimed that Lord Peter was based on Bertie Wooster if he been in WWI but I have tried to find it many times since and failed.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 1d

Check the replies for pretty damn good academic support for this unhinged opinion!

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Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 1d

You just *know* that Lord Peter and Bertie Wooster would know one another.

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 1d

Finally a properly unhinged literary opinion. Excellent work.

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