Nick P
nerpish.bsky.social
Nick P
@nerpish.bsky.social
Mostly here to listen. Medieval literature, music, politics if I can bear it. Should be reading or writing a book instead.
5 classes you took in university:

1. Old English
2. Insular Latin
3. Arthurian literature
4. The conversion of England to Christianity
5. Doomsday, damnation and the devil

Good training for everyday life: spotting signs of Apocalypse, or dealing with headless green knights
5 classes you took in university

1. Mediaeval French literature
2. Mediaeval German literature
3. Old Norse
4. Racine, Corneille and Molière
5. Kafka and Thomas Mann

Yeah, I don't quite know how I ended up as a social scientist either
5 classes you took in university

1. Introduction to Byzantine History
2. Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon Cultural History
3. The Reformation in Mecklenburg
4. German literature of the Crusades
5. NT Greek
February 1, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Reposted by Nick P
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Ed Balls (isn’t that compulsory for a first post?)
September 13, 2024 at 8:52 PM