Proud of my city ❤️

I'm going to need a Book of Dust Volumes I and II recap before Thursday...

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Forsitan audieris aliquam certamine cursus veloces superasse viros. Non fabula rumor ille fuit:

I once got back to a table in a beer garden and the whole vibe had changed and people were muttering to strangers, and it turned out to be because a northerner had been rude about Sadiq Khan and the entire place had instinctively rounded on him. Anyway that's how I feel tonight.

and the putting the books away

I did it 🏃🏻‍♀️

New Zealand launches campaign to find love for rare and lonely left-spiralling snail Ned

Simone Weil, and would that more might read her

Dramatic end to the day. Fire on the slopes of Vesuvius lit by the setting sun. #Pompeii

Regret to inform that I enjoyed two dates from the fridge as a little treat this evening

Well I impulse bought a ticket to London and I do blame the stormy weather but I have no regrets

Peaches from the farmer’s market and chamomile tea from Crete and Mary McCarthy

vague magazine (I'm two episodes behind, no spoilers please)

I feel like we're not talking enough about Ovid's Heroides

the substack algorithm is super weird and/or every single person on that platform is currently reading east of eden

One for @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social

Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"

hot mayor summer

"what fools we are"

This language is ridiculous

There are too many screens

Voting for the nyc mayoral candidate most likely to call a snow day

We're all rereading Syme because of the fascism, right?

Might rewatch all of Endeavour just to feel something

I feel like it’s time for a third series of Fleabag

Just got to the part in my book where it’s revealed “he’s writing a magic book” and then it was my stop and I had to get off the train and go to work and oh

They gotta make a 30+ railcard

Send those emails! Do things!

Numinous

“Many and different are the stories told about Delphi” λέγεται δὲ πολλὰ μὲν καὶ διάφορα ἐς αὐτοὺς τοὺς Δελφούς Pausanias

I am so tired and I sharpened so many pencils today

Sometimes you need to go somewhere simply because you read about a place in a book twenty years ago

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For #BlackHistoryMonth this year, I’m going to be posting daily about: representations of blackness in Greco-Roman antiquity, the history of scholarship by Black classicists, and the history of Africana receptions using the hashtag #AncientBlackness. Join me.

I can’t be cold anymore, I’m done with this winter, it’s too cold and I have to go to work and it is unbearable and I just won’t have any more of it

Obsessed with Lawrence Durrell naming his daughter Sappho Jane

Ἀθήναζε!

“She gets the urge for going When the meadow grass is turning brown And all her empire's falling down And winter's closing in.” Joni Mitchell

Chalamet does a Sherlock Holmes cameo in Gerwig’s Magician’s Nephew, you heard it here first

Muriel Spark is here for the winter. She is a Great Dear. She has a horrifying habit of telling everyone the truth, and things have been lively during her stay. —Shirley Hazzard, letter, 1962

collyram cum pulte nuceum pinearum et brassiculam assatam coquo

If you’re going to give a grammar activity, make it group work

Okay, my ardent followers who have been troubled wondering what to get me for Christmas; your troubles are over.

Simone Weil making the case for compelling input

The real Alice of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant” dies at 83 #RIP