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The evening is perfect, my sisters. The loch lies silent, the air is still. The sun’s last rays linger over the water and there is a faint smirr, almost a smudge of summer rain. Sisters, I smell supper… —Edwin Morgan, “Midge” published in THE MAP & THE CLOCK, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2016

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It's that time of year.

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Another ancient #manicule, with a pretty cool sleeve, from a manuscript of Boethius’ De consolatione philosophiæ. Copied in England in the twelfth century and now MS Dd.6.6 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social

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The more relevant Latin theological phrase is not ordo amoris, but libido dominandi - the lust for domination, a favorite phrase of St. Augustine's. Political spite, glee over the despair of others, "owning" others, trolling others, etc, are all born out of this impulse.

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Missa Aeterna Christi Munera at OSP this morning. The first polyphony I ever heard [on vinyl.]

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People are always like ‘no one had anxiety before modernity’ and Wikipedia pages of pre-20th century figures are always like “he was startled by the sight of an unseemly looking duck [4], whereupon he died of horror [5],[6]”

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24 Feb 1151: Geoffrey of Monmouth, compiler of Historia Regum Britanniae is elected Bishop of St. Asaph #otd A writer whose work has left very many legacies.

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There are times when only Wodehouse will do…

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Muffin man, London, c1910

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I wonder how long it took them to decide on the exact wording of this plaque.

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‘Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward with a lipless grin.’ ~ Whispers of Immortality, T. S. Eliot. #BookWormSat 🪦⚰️⛪️ 🖼️ Wordsworth's Grave, Laslett John Pott.

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Iain Mackenzie’s Ticket Office, Glasgow Subway www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...

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On Nazi salutes, I'll quote Aquinas: It belongs to the virtue of truth to show oneself outwardly by outward signs to be such as one is. Now outward signs are not only words, but also deeds....it is contrary to truth to employ signs of deeds or things to signify the contrary of what is in oneself.

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Have a wee vote, folks! Be assured it's not me, Liz Lochhead and Jackie Kay in competition with each other - god forbid! It's you choosing a line by each of us to be carved on the Parliament Wall. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/02/publ...

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I have now finished all the things I had to do today. So here are a pair of cormorants on the Thames this morning.

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May the God of hope fill us with all joy and peace

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At Blythburgh.

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A Child with a Rattle, 1611, attributed to Paulus van Somer I, 1576–1621 (Bridgeman Images)

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In the light of today's Big Game, may I say that every winter Saturday I wake up thankful that I am no longer a second-row forward. #scrumdown

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Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw’d the Dead in their last dresses, And (by some devilish cantraip sleight) Each in its cauld hand held a light… —in Robert Burns’s 1791 poem, Tam o Shanter stumbles upon a witches’ hoolie in the ruined Alloway kirk… 🖼️ John Faed, 1855 #BookWormSat

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In more pleasant news, the daffodils are out in Pollok Park.

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Ambrosius Holbein Signboard for a Schoolmaster 1516 (Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, via WGA)

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I took my first-year undergrads to see some manuscripts in the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social this week. We looked at a Latin bestiary, Jesus College MS 29 (featuring 'The Owl and the Nightingale', which they're studying) and a roll of devotional poems. I particularly liked the bestiary cats.

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Busy day at the Cathedral: Morning Prayer at 8am, Cathedral Eucharist at 10:30am with Schubert's beautiful Mass in G, and Choral Evensong at 3:30pm with Britten's thrilling Te Deum. And at 12:30pm, award-winning pianist Catherine Duncan plays Ginastera's amazing Danza Argentinas!

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Feb 22: Feast of Máel Brigte mac Tornáin (†927), abbot of Iona and Armagh. Owner of the MacDurnan Gospels gifted to King Æthelstan (†939). Dubthach succeeded him at Iona and Ioseph at Armagh. 📸Lambeth Palace Library

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"Therefore they went serenely to their deaths, without a tremor, knowing that the prince of this world is judged." Claudio Magris, 'Danube.'

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Delicate yet intricate: an early modern ornament made by piercing paper, extending through several pages like a hidden lacework woven into the book. #NationalMuseumOfLithuania

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“A ‘nihilistic revolution’ does not pursue any goal [telos], but takes its aim from the ‘movement’ itself and, in so doing, comes close to satanic practice.” - Jacob Taubes, Occidental Eschatology, 11

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Mulier Scotica or 'a Scotsh Woman', Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644 (Rijksmuseum)

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For Herbert, prayer is a kind of transposition to a new key, writes @malcolmguite.bsky.social

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Peter at the fire, denying that he knows Christ. Three times. By Dirck van Baburen who, alas, died OTD 1624.

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16c drafts of the 39 Articles of the Church of England - @corpuscambridge.bsky.social - MS 121. Inky paw prints of an anonymous cat … Some things never change.

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Every Winter ends.

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And we also bless thy holy Name for all thy servants departed this life in thy faith and fear

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🌿☕ Buff tailed bumble 🐝s like this fluffy one & many other insects taste their environment with their feet🐾 I'm so pleased I don't have this skill Locusts taste through their ovipost (the bit where eggs come out, I will leave that to your imagination) 🙃😂🌿 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

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Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.

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surrounded by circle upon circle of consternations and affrights

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Tak tent!

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Notice all the green

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This is Glasgow's smallest graveyard. It's the former Quaker Burial Ground on Keith Street in Partick. Cont./ #glasgow #partick #glasgowhistory #graveyard #burialground #quakers

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Fridays are coffee and cake at Callendar House. The mango and coconut sponge cake was wonderful. Won't need lunch now.

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Bromborough, Wirral. Brunburg early 12thC. 'Stronghold of a man called Brūna'. Old English personal name + burh. Source: Oxford Dictionary of British #PlaceNames. The site is a leading contender for where the Battle of Brunanburh was fought in 937. 📸Rodhullandemu

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Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire. Morris & Co 1918 Christ in Majesty EW

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Bearded man with a wonderful handlebar moustache from an early 12th century font which originally came from St. Peter's Church at Hutton Cranswick in East Yorkshire. The font is now part of the collections at Hull and East Riding Museum. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #Medieval

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For #findsFriday this beautiful cloisonné clasp from Sutton Hoo. The workmanship is astonishing - gold foil has been set beneath the garnets to reflect light.

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