PhD medical writer by vocation and cultural historian by avocation. More often than not, these are one and the same. Enjoying the blue sky.
Washington DC/Norfolk VA
Joined June 2009
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The best synopsis of the psychology (pathology?) of writing: "Growsing is hopeless. I shall go on, collect my guts, face fifty thousand words of forced and accumulated time. One can't tell whether there won't be a tide to catch, some beautiful morning." TH White
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I am the happiest person in New York because i just watched “Metropolitan”
again for the first time since it came out. What an absolutely delicious and truly civilized work.
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"And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way."
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One of them garden birds nobody really takes many photos of including me, so give me a retweet if you like the European Blackbird.
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Terry Eagleton, The return of America's Puritans
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I was of course ready to pounce because so many people completely distort the nature of Puritanism, but Terry acknowledges its radical propensities & ties them in interesting ways to the US/Europe contrast
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A good puzzle would be cross Rockville Town Square without passing a bubble tea sign. #NotInDublinAnymore
I had a neighbor who never replied the same way to "Hello, Mr B. How're you today?" My favorite: "Kicking, but not high."
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I guess I should've known by the way you parked your car sideways
That it wouldn't last
Congratulations @dramdarcy. I am in awe of your strength, perseverance, and commitment to justice. So happy you prevailed.
The @21percentgroup congratulates Dr D'Arcy on damages from @uniofleicester
"The respondent unfairly dismissed the claimant"
Employment Tribunals are stressful, but it is important to hold bad #university management to account
You're a hero, @dramdarcy
#academia
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Oxford University Press is celebrating 20 years of its Word of the Year. My favourite has to be ‘omnishambles’, from The Thick of It. Unsurprisingly, it remains in regular use and has taken on a life of its own. @OxUniPress
corp.oup.com/word-of-the-yea…
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"I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."
Joanna Maciejewska
Here's a hand drawn hawthorn ...
In memoriam Michael Hartnett, mo mhuirnín (18SEP41 -13OCT99)
Blackbird, robin, thrush?
I cannot place the singer.
Exile blunts the ear.
- From Inchicore Haiku (1985)
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The newly-renamed Eavan Boland Library at Trinity College Dublin will be the first building on Trinity’s campus to be named after a woman. It took 432 years. 432!
