Student, poet and generally obsessed with language in a somewhat unhealthy manner - wordy, too 😁
Joined July 2020
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Not really into dystopian genre but I loved 1984 and have heard a lot about this book. Let’s see 🤞🏻
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Damned if you do, damned if you don’t:
Χαλεπὸν τὸ μὴ φιλῆσαι·
χαλεπὸν δὲ καὶ φιλῆσαι·
χαλεπώτερον δὲ πάντων
ἀποτυγχάνειν φιλοῦντα.
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It’s difficult not to love
and it’s difficult to love,
but most difficult of all
is to love in vain.
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Have been sewing today! Skirt still wants a waistband and needs hemming.
I'll make a matching blouse from a lovely turquoise fabric I have lying around. It'll be a little outfit for the holidays! ❤️
Made the skirt out of an old curtain I found at a thrift store!!
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Sublime tailoring which is subtle in all respects here. Anne Fogarty’s #1950s wool coat dress fits and flares with a little turned back suede collar. The herringbone pattern is anything but dull, not brown but burnished gold and charcoal #goldsteinmuseum #FashionHistory
ALT Three quarter view of a herringbone patterned calf length wool coat dress. It is fitted to the torso with long sleeves and then flares out into a fuller pleated skirt. It has a small turn down collar
ALT Back view of the 1950s herringbone wool dress showing how it is tailored to the body and then flares out into a fuller smooth skirt
ALT Detail of the fine herringbone pattern of the 1950s wool dress showing the subtle colour variation of dark gold and charcoal
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Sonnet 116. Patrick's favourite. Take one minute out of your day to hear the bard's words spoken by someone who lived by them.
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I had no previous idea that this existed.
Marc Chagall - utterly entrancing- windows in All Saints Church, Tudeley, Kent.
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The 10 rules simplified.
1Know your argument and stick to it.
2Give each paragraph one main point.
3Put clarity first (even if you repeat yourself).
4Keep sentences short and simple.
5Write from a fixed point in time, using tenses to show what came before or after.
6Use the subjunctive if need be.
7To illustrate a point, state it, then give examples; to prove a point, give the evidence, then state it.
8Picture your metaphors and don't mix them.
9Read your sentences aloud and hear how they sound.
10Cut any passage written just to impress.
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My reading of T.S Eliot's Prufrock! The more I read this poem, the more I am convinced of its brilliance: it's energetic, experimental, and so strange.
I hope you will enjoy listening to this as much as I enjoyed recording it
Hope I did it some justice ☺️
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F. Capelle retweeted
Are you passionate about languages, history, and culture? 📷📷
Explore the Polis Institute Press Book Catalogue, and discover a rich collection of books and learning resources dedicated to ancient and modern languages.
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Today just wouldn't be complete without this brilliant image: Winnie the Pooh meets the Battle of Hastings facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=…
Has it really been three years since October 7th 2023? I'd just arrived in Jerusalem for my studies a month before that. It was one of the most surreal days I've ever experienced - like something out of a terrifying book that one is glad to put down when one's finished
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Translating poetry is such a fantastic exercise, it's never going to do justice to original brilliance, but so effective in sharpening your own skill in writing ☺️ this was one fun morning
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“When autumn came, he knew that part at least of his heart would think more kindly of journeying, as it always did at that season.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
