Mark Saltveit
@daoish.bsky.social
Medieval manuscripts, Daoist (aka Taoist) philosophy, comedy,
palindromes, versus recurrentes, &c.
Upcoming: a few US shows of "Ego Tourism", my one-person show from the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe; revising 2 peer-reviewed articles.
palindromes, versus recurrentes, &c.
Upcoming: a few US shows of "Ego Tourism", my one-person show from the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe; revising 2 peer-reviewed articles.
Vermonters! Come see "Ego Tourism" Friday at 11am, at Middlebury College Davis Family Library, room 230. Free.
A 1-person show about Daoism (aka Taoism), mixing comedy, cringe memoir and ineffable philosophy, as seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival all August.
"perfectly balanced" - the Scotsman
A 1-person show about Daoism (aka Taoism), mixing comedy, cringe memoir and ineffable philosophy, as seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival all August.
"perfectly balanced" - the Scotsman
October 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Vermonters! Come see "Ego Tourism" Friday at 11am, at Middlebury College Davis Family Library, room 230. Free.
A 1-person show about Daoism (aka Taoism), mixing comedy, cringe memoir and ineffable philosophy, as seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival all August.
"perfectly balanced" - the Scotsman
A 1-person show about Daoism (aka Taoism), mixing comedy, cringe memoir and ineffable philosophy, as seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival all August.
"perfectly balanced" - the Scotsman
Thanks! By the way, this is how your username appears on my browser anyway:
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Thanks! By the way, this is how your username appears on my browser anyway:
Just 3 more shows at the #Edinburgh #Fringe. Nice review in the Scotsman! Part of the PBH Free Fringe, so free (I'll pass the hat).
"Ego Tourism: How the Tao Made Me (a bit less) Weird"
Cringe comedy + memoir + ineffable philosophy (#Taoism aka #Daoism)
Carbon Lounge (Cowgate & Blair), 4:25 pm.
"Ego Tourism: How the Tao Made Me (a bit less) Weird"
Cringe comedy + memoir + ineffable philosophy (#Taoism aka #Daoism)
Carbon Lounge (Cowgate & Blair), 4:25 pm.
August 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Just 3 more shows at the #Edinburgh #Fringe. Nice review in the Scotsman! Part of the PBH Free Fringe, so free (I'll pass the hat).
"Ego Tourism: How the Tao Made Me (a bit less) Weird"
Cringe comedy + memoir + ineffable philosophy (#Taoism aka #Daoism)
Carbon Lounge (Cowgate & Blair), 4:25 pm.
"Ego Tourism: How the Tao Made Me (a bit less) Weird"
Cringe comedy + memoir + ineffable philosophy (#Taoism aka #Daoism)
Carbon Lounge (Cowgate & Blair), 4:25 pm.
Great preview last night! My new show
"Ego Tourism: how the Tao made me (a bit less) weird"
opens next Saturday at the #Edinburgh #Fringe
Carbon Lounge, 208 Cowgate Room 3 (below the Monkey Barrels). Part of the PBH Free Fringe (like Baby Reindeer was 6 years ago).
Daily except Tuesdays, at 4:40 PM
"Ego Tourism: how the Tao made me (a bit less) weird"
opens next Saturday at the #Edinburgh #Fringe
Carbon Lounge, 208 Cowgate Room 3 (below the Monkey Barrels). Part of the PBH Free Fringe (like Baby Reindeer was 6 years ago).
Daily except Tuesdays, at 4:40 PM
July 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Great preview last night! My new show
"Ego Tourism: how the Tao made me (a bit less) weird"
opens next Saturday at the #Edinburgh #Fringe
Carbon Lounge, 208 Cowgate Room 3 (below the Monkey Barrels). Part of the PBH Free Fringe (like Baby Reindeer was 6 years ago).
Daily except Tuesdays, at 4:40 PM
"Ego Tourism: how the Tao made me (a bit less) weird"
opens next Saturday at the #Edinburgh #Fringe
Carbon Lounge, 208 Cowgate Room 3 (below the Monkey Barrels). Part of the PBH Free Fringe (like Baby Reindeer was 6 years ago).
Daily except Tuesdays, at 4:40 PM
Greetings from Sighişhoara, Romania! (Yes, named after the manuscript. No, they didn't have a copy.)
June 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Greetings from Sighişhoara, Romania! (Yes, named after the manuscript. No, they didn't have a copy.)
Thank you! FYI, the link worked when I typed it in, but clicking on it yielded this error for some reason:
April 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Thank you! FYI, the link worked when I typed it in, but clicking on it yielded this error for some reason:
Here's an unusual one: a 15th c. cento of Hrabanus Maurus, de laudibus sanctae crucis, in Einsiedeln Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 232 (olim 602), p. 94.
March 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Here's an unusual one: a 15th c. cento of Hrabanus Maurus, de laudibus sanctae crucis, in Einsiedeln Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 232 (olim 602), p. 94.