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BESW

2:44 AM

Classic Chicago Tribune Cartoonists - 1931

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DVK-on-Ahch-To

3:55 AM

@Zyera I'm looking at it from a far simpler angle that they themselves take: "capitalism is bad for lgbt rights, socialism good". I won't go into detail explanation of how ridiculously wrong the assertion that socialist state has no inequality is, other than noting that I have far more knowledge of how it worked than most people theorizing about the topic.

user61230

@DVK-on-Ahch-To I agree, it's definitely not that simple. I'd love to talk about this in more detail, actually, esp. to hear your experiences.

DVK-on-Ahch-To

As food for thought, try to find any large amount of people holding such views among those who emigrated from real socialist states (USSR, Venezuela, pre-Deng China, North Korea, old-timey Vietnam).

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BESW

10:33 AM

Beatrix Potter, 'The Tailor Mouse' c.1902 #womensart

Tweeted by womensart1 on November 9, 2017 at 7:47 AM

This is a thread of best-beloved short stories, stories which move me and make me feel, stories of truth and magic, stories make my heart ring like a bell.

Tweeted by queuelessness on November 8, 2017 at 4:58 PM

US sculptor Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Burnett Fountain, 1926-36, in honor of 'Secret Garden' author Frances Hodgson Burnett #womensart

Tweeted by womensart1 on November 9, 2017 at 6:06 AM

Vat. lat. 9488: Book of hours, black parchment. #LibRarities ➡️https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.9488

Tweeted by DigitaVaticana on November 7, 2017 at 12:40 PM

Happy pub day to the AWIT movie tie-in! Cheers to all the readers you’ll make warriors 🌏💫💕 [cc: @janine_omalley @MadeleineLEngle @stormreid @ava]

Tweeted by melissa_warten on November 7, 2017 at 8:20 PM

Can you fit a sonnet in 280 characters?

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Tim E. Lord

1:55 PM

in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, 34 mins ago, by Tim E. Lord

New series. New Doctor. New look! #DoctorWho

Tweeted by bbcdoctorwho on November 9, 2017 at 1:00 PM

I returned 4 books and renewed the rest. I'm off the hook now

@DVK-on-Ahch-To Crap, now I got it

Yes, in comparison to him Anton is the paragon of adult behaviour

Bookworm

Q: In Cupid and Psyche, why does Cupid hide himself from Psyche?

In the myth, Cupid only comes to Psyche in the dark, so she doesn't know who he is or what he looks like. What's Cupid's motivation for hiding his identity? Was he planning to do that indefinitely if Psyche hadn't disobeyed his order and took a peek at his face?

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DVK-on-Ahch-To

3:54 PM

@TimE.Lord You got crap at the library in exchange for returning books? Your library's weird

Tim E. Lord

4:41 PM

@DVK-on-Ahch-To and I still owe them monies

Hamlet

5:33 PM

@Bookworm at what point can we conclude that questions about performance are on-topic on a site about literature?

That question seems like an excellent demonstration of the folly of separating performance from text.

That question is also an excellent demonstration of how performance is a way of reading and interpreting a text.

Our reading experience, I'm guessing, is mostly reading silently and alone. But that's only one way to read/consume literature.

Deciding that questions about performance are off-topic will stunt this site in the future, and make it very difficult for this site to attract experts on any type of theater.

For example, the people who know the most about Shakespeare aren't scholars, but the people who perform his plays.

Bookworm

Q: What are chapter summary phrases called?

Is there a name for the literary technique of opening a chapter with a series of summary phrases? An example from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome: Chapter II Plans discussed.—Pleasures of “camping-out,” on fine nights.—Ditto, wet nights.—Compromise decided on.—Montmorency, firs...

terminology

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Tim E. Lord

7:57 PM

That first story in Day Watch was.... I wouldn't mind more of it

Tim E. Lord

8:15 PM

Damn it, this jab at America is even harder

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Tim E. Lord

9:51 PM

I finished Day Watch

Tim E. Lord

10:09 PM

Going to start the next one

Twilight Watch, that is.

BESW

10:26 PM

The Novgorod Codex dating from c. 1000 - the only known "hyper-palimpsest". Three wooden tablets discovered in 2000 filled with wax and containing traces of hundreds of texts written and erased over 3 decades.