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books, beauty, history, folklore. Dickens lover. married to @littleseamstress. gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed. patreon.com/sketchesbyboze, https://linktr.ee/sketchesbyboze
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Kurt Vonnegut said, “Only well-informed, warmhearted people can teach others things they’ll always remember and love. A computer teaches a child what a computer can become. An educated human teaches a child what a child can become” and THAT is why AI will never replace teachers.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

In May I read 30 books, among them a Holocaust memoir, a neglected Gothic classic, a collection of afterlife visions, several books on the Middle Ages, a saga, a very strange ghost story and a late masterpiece by C. S. Lewis. Today I’m sharing my favorites:

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

People think I'm kidding when I say there is a fascist agenda behind the promotion of AI. These devices are designed to kill literacy. We grew up in one of those rare periods of history where most people could read, and those who can read are harder to control.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I wrote about Moby-Dick, the Book of Job, A Grief Observed, the sinking of the White Ship in 1120, The Man Who Was Thursday and the mystery of suffering. This is one of my favorite pieces I've written. bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-shadow...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Joseph Campbell; reading is how we find our way in the dark

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

“I don’t like reading, it’s too hard—” listen to me. if a Jack Russell terrier can not only read the classics but also ENJOY them so much that he feels moved to perform them in costume, and find in them constant application to events in his life, so can you.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

I don't want to “improve my rizz,” I want to be a scribe in an Irish monastery in 950 AD. I’m hunched over a manuscript, painstakingly retracing the letters. Pangur Bán, the abbot’s cat, brushes against my leg. I doodle her image in the margin. I’ve never heard of the internet. I’m happy.

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

not to be sentimental but I think it’s beautiful that libraries exist and are free and that we can use them. I love that there are so many bookish folk who are always reading and learning. I’m so glad to live in a world where there are books.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

In Fahrenheit 451, the abolition of reading began with tech companies simplifying books into summaries that you could read in five minutes. Because people no longer engaged with the texts, they forgot how to think. Then came the book-burnings.

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

The contempt that these folks have for the poor and under-privileged is galling. Yes, it is ethical to buy used books. Yes, it is ethical to borrow books from the library. Not everyone can afford to shop at Barnes & Noble, but everyone deserves the joy of reading.

submitted 18 days ago • 23 comments

one thing I respect about medieval beekeepers is their total commitment to looking like Doctor Who villains

submitted 20 days ago • 159 comments

one thing I respect about medieval beekeepers is their total commitment to looking like Doctor Who villains

submitted 20 days ago • 159 comments

What a brilliant, artful, and contemplative read that makes me appreciate how interwoven we all are from ancient and medieval mythology and modern day individual fear of death/aging.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote about modern near-death experiences, medieval visions of hell, Inanna's journey to the underworld and the pangs of approaching middle age. bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-shadow...

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

We tend to assume boredom is something to be avoided, but in centuries past you would go wandering through the woods or stare at the walls of a cave for an hour and accidentally invent beer or a new religion or write Alice in Wonderland.

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

guys always assume that sending nudes is what grabs a gal’s attention, when what really grabs their attention is the patronage of the esteemed lady Catherine de Bourgh.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

“You think your pain & your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.” Baldwin

submitted 24 days ago • 14 comments

instead of faking intelligence by submitting machine-generated essays, I recommend faking intelligence the old-fashioned way: by showing a lively curiosity towards the world and improving your mind by extensive reading.

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

that's The Dream™

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments