Jaycel Adkins
@jaycel.bsky.social
I like to read Classic texts from around the world, in translation.
People on here just sharing stuff that promotes their ‘side’ in a conflict like everyone else does.
As the saying goes, wherever you travel, there YOU are.
Nothing changes.
As the saying goes, wherever you travel, there YOU are.
Nothing changes.
October 19, 2023 at 12:04 PM
People on here just sharing stuff that promotes their ‘side’ in a conflict like everyone else does.
As the saying goes, wherever you travel, there YOU are.
Nothing changes.
As the saying goes, wherever you travel, there YOU are.
Nothing changes.
Montaigne just dismissing the world, over here, Essay #50 “Of Democritus and Heraclitus.”
The note on Murasaki and Sei is just a general take on how each, to me, reacted to the transience of life, though I think Sei is closer to delight, than humor/disdain. Tho disdain is certainly there.
The note on Murasaki and Sei is just a general take on how each, to me, reacted to the transience of life, though I think Sei is closer to delight, than humor/disdain. Tho disdain is certainly there.
October 15, 2023 at 9:24 PM
Montaigne just dismissing the world, over here, Essay #50 “Of Democritus and Heraclitus.”
The note on Murasaki and Sei is just a general take on how each, to me, reacted to the transience of life, though I think Sei is closer to delight, than humor/disdain. Tho disdain is certainly there.
The note on Murasaki and Sei is just a general take on how each, to me, reacted to the transience of life, though I think Sei is closer to delight, than humor/disdain. Tho disdain is certainly there.
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A Season of Surprises: this year's in-between reading was full of the unexpected. A look back: 💙📚👀
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October 15, 2023 at 3:08 PM
A Season of Surprises: this year's in-between reading was full of the unexpected. A look back: 💙📚👀
sloopie72.wordpress.com/2023/10/15/a...
sloopie72.wordpress.com/2023/10/15/a...
It shouldn’t amaze me, but it does:
No one thinks they are the baddies.
No matter what vile shenanigans they talk themselves into doing.
They are always the good ones.
No one thinks they are the baddies.
No matter what vile shenanigans they talk themselves into doing.
They are always the good ones.
October 13, 2023 at 8:41 PM
It shouldn’t amaze me, but it does:
No one thinks they are the baddies.
No matter what vile shenanigans they talk themselves into doing.
They are always the good ones.
No one thinks they are the baddies.
No matter what vile shenanigans they talk themselves into doing.
They are always the good ones.
What sucks about leading 5 reading groups is that there is no time to read anything else. What’s great is that it guarantees you will finish whatever texts those 5 groups are about, without question.
October 13, 2023 at 1:39 AM
What sucks about leading 5 reading groups is that there is no time to read anything else. What’s great is that it guarantees you will finish whatever texts those 5 groups are about, without question.
Looks like St Johns College will be doing Classics program this Winter, first two weeks of January via Zoom.
www.sjc.edu/winter-class...
www.sjc.edu/winter-class...
October 13, 2023 at 1:36 AM
Looks like St Johns College will be doing Classics program this Winter, first two weeks of January via Zoom.
www.sjc.edu/winter-class...
www.sjc.edu/winter-class...
Tonight’s reading group, I find myself more taken with simple expressions in literature than flights of fancy these days.
October 12, 2023 at 3:23 PM
Tonight’s reading group, I find myself more taken with simple expressions in literature than flights of fancy these days.
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Skyliners, how you would describe the taxonomy of your personal library? Not just how do you organise your shelves, but how do you conceptualise this to yourself?
October 11, 2023 at 11:29 PM
Skyliners, how you would describe the taxonomy of your personal library? Not just how do you organise your shelves, but how do you conceptualise this to yourself?
Sei Shonagon
Du Fu
Murasaki Shikibu
Ludovico Ariosto
al-Harīrī
Michel de Montaigne
Du Fu
Murasaki Shikibu
Ludovico Ariosto
al-Harīrī
Michel de Montaigne
October 11, 2023 at 6:23 PM
Sei Shonagon
Du Fu
Murasaki Shikibu
Ludovico Ariosto
al-Harīrī
Michel de Montaigne
Du Fu
Murasaki Shikibu
Ludovico Ariosto
al-Harīrī
Michel de Montaigne
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
~Rumi
[The School of Silence by Jean Delville]
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
~Rumi
[The School of Silence by Jean Delville]
October 8, 2023 at 10:09 PM
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
~Rumi
[The School of Silence by Jean Delville]
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
~Rumi
[The School of Silence by Jean Delville]
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
~Voltaire
[Charity, Hope, and Faith by Gustave Doré]
~Voltaire
[Charity, Hope, and Faith by Gustave Doré]
October 11, 2023 at 2:39 AM
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
~Voltaire
[Charity, Hope, and Faith by Gustave Doré]
~Voltaire
[Charity, Hope, and Faith by Gustave Doré]
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All the great works of literature span 70+ books: Warhammer 40,000 - The Horus Heresy; The Babysitters' Club etc.
October 11, 2023 at 2:51 AM
All the great works of literature span 70+ books: Warhammer 40,000 - The Horus Heresy; The Babysitters' Club etc.
I have box sets for 20th Century Boys, Goodnight PunPun, and Monster in my cart…I guess we can say I’m about to make a plunge into Manga again….
October 11, 2023 at 1:46 AM
I have box sets for 20th Century Boys, Goodnight PunPun, and Monster in my cart…I guess we can say I’m about to make a plunge into Manga again….
I wonder what it says about me as a ‘reader’ that I don’t have authors that I hate. I just don’t read them.
October 11, 2023 at 1:31 AM
I wonder what it says about me as a ‘reader’ that I don’t have authors that I hate. I just don’t read them.
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It's here!!!!!!!
October 10, 2023 at 6:19 PM
It's here!!!!!!!
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This new episode of Backlisted is #197. Our annual Hallowe'en show will be #198. We have something a bit different planned for #199. And then, eight years since we first gathered round the kitchen table at Unbound, we reach our double century. Goodness. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/197...
197. Diane Johnson - The True History of the First Mrs Meredith — Backlisted
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October 10, 2023 at 4:02 PM
This new episode of Backlisted is #197. Our annual Hallowe'en show will be #198. We have something a bit different planned for #199. And then, eight years since we first gathered round the kitchen table at Unbound, we reach our double century. Goodness. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/197...
Essays 39-49 today.
October 9, 2023 at 4:11 PM
Essays 39-49 today.
15.99 USD a bottle now, Limit 2 per customer.
October 9, 2023 at 11:32 AM
15.99 USD a bottle now, Limit 2 per customer.
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Byung-Chul Han, the philosopher who lives life backwards, feels that he is a reincarnation of Simone Weil, and compares “storytelling to storyselling”. english.elpais.com/culture/2023...
Byung-Chul Han, the philosopher who lives life backwards: ‘We believe we’re free, but we’re th...
EL PAÍS met with the famous thinker in Berlin. Known for his short sentences, the author of ‘The Burnout Society’ works at night and sleeps during the day
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October 9, 2023 at 3:51 AM
Byung-Chul Han, the philosopher who lives life backwards, feels that he is a reincarnation of Simone Weil, and compares “storytelling to storyselling”. english.elpais.com/culture/2023...
Glad I deleted Twitter, not sure about this place, yet. Glad I can access the website rather than forced use via app. Probably won’t be around much, back to watching Naoki Urasawa’s MANBEN.
October 9, 2023 at 1:53 AM
Glad I deleted Twitter, not sure about this place, yet. Glad I can access the website rather than forced use via app. Probably won’t be around much, back to watching Naoki Urasawa’s MANBEN.