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Here's a good website: fhdsa.org

Night Startled by the Lark https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-blake/night-startled-by-the-lark-1820

Sorry many posts but this is an amazing genre, just found potato propaganda

WW1 poster that I feel you could sell at farmers markets today.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bradhostetler/sets/72157690543565974 The right figure is missing his left foot. This piece was discovered in Istanbul and is now on display at the @istarkeoloji. https://flic.kr/p/dQ6Xiq

I staid below in my chamber, but, Lord! how I listened and laid my ear to the door, and how I was troubled when I heard them stand still and not dance.

If you happen to be in Venice in a few days (in the 12th), come hear Tommaso Giordani and I talk about Georges Sorel and our new edited volume.

This, of course (for those who know it), made me think of Engels's "The Origin of the Family," which in turn made me remember this nightmare. Screenshot is of a Facebook post that, coincidentally, was 9 years ago today. (Referencing "The Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man")

"the old World that is running up like parchment in the fire"

I really like this op-ed, and it has prompted me to write down a really dark thought about grades, prompted by various kerfuffles around Harvard, AI, etc. etc. Thread follows. 🧵1/11 cambodianess.com/article/a-pr...

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If you happen to be in Venice in a few days (in the 12th), come hear Tommaso Giordani and I talk about Georges Sorel and our new edited volume.

The pained sigh of disappointment from a reluctant RSVP acceptance in now a New Yorker.

Gabarriére de Roquefort (#Aveyron) Suite 👉 https://cartorum.fr/carte-postale/364730/gabarriere-de-roquefort

and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans

"l’entreprise effrayante dans laquelle votre bonne foi philosophique a transformé votre thèse de doctorat"

Here is Guesde asserting that we cannot have truly public services in a society structured by class antagonisms. Some resonance these days.

Marx being fairly complementary about Guesde in 1879. From a letter only discovered in 2022.

here is what is probably my 3rd or so daily reminder that there are no adults in the room you are the adults and i unfortunately hope you're doing something other than just voting and donating money to candidates

Plekhanov on Chernyshevsky's *What is to be Done?*

Lincoln Lemington. 7024 Lemington Ave - PBF Engine 15 Station. Fire fighters say that a guy walked into their station with handcuffs on and would like help with getting them off.

Didn't manage to spend much time there, but this was a very cool event parisassbookfair.fr/en/

Just remind him to be cautious while riding escalators

In the crosswalk right at the entrance

"Grâce aux réseaux sociaux, le livre, traduit ensuite en anglais, est devenu viral dans les pays anglophone"

A terrible picture of a good statue of Leon Blum and his great scarf

As someone who grew up in the 80s hearing that Greenwich Village is all phony now and not the same as it was in the 60s (and presumably now people say it's not the same as the 90s or 00s) it's fun to read a 1950 book set in 1939 and remember that this has always been the dynamic.

Sometimes French questionnaires from the 70s just feel so, so French. I mean, I know it's a stereotype, but I've read a lot of old polls, and these questions weren't being asked elsewhere

“Si je pouvais reconstruire la courbe de l'histoire, je ne vois pas pourquoi je devrais lire dans cette courbe toutes mes actions, toutes mes aspirations futures. Cette courbe, c'est ma foi même qui, en partie, la décrit. M'incliner devant elle, c'est adorer la trace de mes pas.”

"I mean, maybe we *are* like ants inside some other civilization" says a middle-aged English lady to the man walking next to her

the whaling voyage was welcome

More than a little surprised that there is not a recent biography of the Marquise Arconati-Visconti in English.

On apprend la mort de Marjane Satrapi, l’autrice de Persepolis, à seulement 56 ans, « morte de tristesse un peu plus d’un an après le décès de Mattias Ripa, son mari et l’amour de sa vie », déclare un communiqué transmis à l’AFP. Appelez la « Liberté », une valeur qu’elle a toujours défendue

WILD shot in the electronic dark: does anyone know the population of Fort-de-France and Saint-Pierre (Martinique) in 1860? Preferably urban vs. whole municipality? 🗃️ I WILL THANK YOU FORMALLY!

people were reliably apprised of the existence of Moby Dick, and the havoc he had made

'This is the Simone de Beauvoir Society' fits to that song in The Italian Job, in case you're wondering what will be looping through your mind 5 hours from now

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admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it.

Prompted by reading this, which is really very interesting www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

I would like to read a history of the concept of grace since 1600, but especially since 1790. Does such a thing exist?

"For the bourgeoisie the achievement of class consciousness thereby threw up obstacles to an understanding of history. The proletariat, on the other hand, could not arrive at an adequate understanding of its interests without coming to an understanding of history as a history of class structures"

"a distressingly rare virtue – the ability to convey how surprising and weird capitalism is as a system of production and exchange"

This is evil! Don't do this!

Marion and I put our Weber hats on at the end of our entry into this market and refused to take them off.

Did an oral history interview this past week, and the person mentioned that when the Rodney King verdict was announced, K-State students had a big meeting, and marched down into Aggieville (where the bars are), stopped traffic -- archive.org/details/KSUL...

@lauracforster.bsky.social and @jonathynebriggs.bsky.social …. Books! #oup #booksky #skystorians #frenchies