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Author Archives: Uncomely and Broken
“Thoroughly Useless Nation”: Mommsen on the Irish
From Theodor Mommsen (trans. William P. Dickson) History of Rome, Vol. 4 (London 1867), Book 5, Chapter 7, pp. 286-87 (link here) Mind you, an edition of this work won a goddam Nobel Prize for Literature in 1902 In the mighty … Continue reading
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Domine ne in furore tuo arguas
These images are take from the recently-recovered Fauquier Book of Hours, on which my friend and colleague Greg Clark is an expert, as discussed in the video below. The scene illustrated is from Psalm 6, the opening of which is … Continue reading
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Tim’s Ford notes
This is just a page on which I intend to stick things I find out about Tim’s Ford lake. Other links:
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Sewanee’s Moon Tree: A Poem & A Reflection
From the NASA wesbite: Apollo 14 launched in the late afternoon of January 31, 1971 on what was to be our third trip to the lunar surface. Five days later Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell walked on the Moon while … Continue reading
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Protected: Modern origins of the manly-man Roman fore-arm handshake
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Protected: “The Hitler Gang”
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what I see is an affliction to me; and what I do not see, a reproach
The paradox for the anthropologist imagining time travel and anachronism leads to a certain insight about present-day blindness Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, trans. John Russell (New York: Criterion, 1961) 44-45 I should have liked to live in the age of … Continue reading
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Moorman twins & Normandy
If you have been over to the University Counsel’s office in Walsh-Ellett Hall in Sewanee, you have seen probably the portrait of the Moorman twins from the early 1930s. (I’ll load an image of it when I get back over … Continue reading
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Order of the Adjectives
Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac.” So Mark … Continue reading
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