Truly, about the only positive thing to come out of this morning's writing was that I got to use the word 'gallimaufry'.
April 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Truly, about the only positive thing to come out of this morning's writing was that I got to use the word 'gallimaufry'.
also editing my own work makes me realise that I must somehow believe that all lone adjectives are lonely and must be in pairs for comfort
April 1, 2025 at 11:24 AM
also editing my own work makes me realise that I must somehow believe that all lone adjectives are lonely and must be in pairs for comfort
Reading back over yesterday's writing, which took a week of reading: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jqK...
Ben Wyatt presents 'Requiem for a Tuesday'
YouTube video by O&A, R&F, & Bennington Archive
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April 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Reading back over yesterday's writing, which took a week of reading: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jqK...
We've all been there.
March 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
We've all been there.
Had one of those great moments where something I'd ordered largely by mistake in the Reading Room turned out to be really interesting and useful. I think it's why I keep harping on at students about going to the library to look for things - because so much of research is serendipity.
March 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Had one of those great moments where something I'd ordered largely by mistake in the Reading Room turned out to be really interesting and useful. I think it's why I keep harping on at students about going to the library to look for things - because so much of research is serendipity.
does it count towards your word count for the day if it's a paragraph you've cannibalised from an article you wrote 7,000 words of then abandoned three years ago?
March 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
does it count towards your word count for the day if it's a paragraph you've cannibalised from an article you wrote 7,000 words of then abandoned three years ago?
The Dennis Severs House was so wonderful, I could cry. Truly astonishing.
February 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The Dennis Severs House was so wonderful, I could cry. Truly astonishing.
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Here's @jemimahubberstey.bsky.social's blog post, with poem! www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...
The Gothic Tower at Wimpole: Knowledge Exchange
Mithraic Groves and Gothic Towers: Reuniting the Lost Literary Legacies of Wrest and Wimpole’ is a one-year Knowledge Exchange between the University of Oxford, English Heritage, and the National Trus...
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February 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Here's @jemimahubberstey.bsky.social's blog post, with poem! www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...
I am on leave, it's not raining, the buses are rubbish and I don't drive, and there's a folly I want to see. It's time for the patented Reinbold Big Walk.
February 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I am on leave, it's not raining, the buses are rubbish and I don't drive, and there's a folly I want to see. It's time for the patented Reinbold Big Walk.
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‘Her work is not only a good deal easier to read than Klein’s, it is also not stuck on hatred. It doesn’t even stop at Freud’s “ordinary unhappiness”. She was out for actual happiness!’
Clair Wills on the psychoanalyst Marion Milner: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Clair Wills on the psychoanalyst Marion Milner: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Clair Wills · Where the Bomb Falls: Marion Milner’s Method
Marion Milner believed in the importance of creative fulfilment (the ‘genius’ inside every one of us) and offered a...
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February 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
‘Her work is not only a good deal easier to read than Klein’s, it is also not stuck on hatred. It doesn’t even stop at Freud’s “ordinary unhappiness”. She was out for actual happiness!’
Clair Wills on the psychoanalyst Marion Milner: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Clair Wills on the psychoanalyst Marion Milner: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
saw a man cycling who looked astoundingly like Derrida
February 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
saw a man cycling who looked astoundingly like Derrida
I'm thinking about Capability Brown at the moment, and particularly Chambers' oft-repeated line, 'peasants emerge from the melon grounds to take the periwig and turn professors.' (then satirised by Mason) I know CB had some vague connection with refurbishing the Melon Ground at Hampton Court.....
February 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I'm thinking about Capability Brown at the moment, and particularly Chambers' oft-repeated line, 'peasants emerge from the melon grounds to take the periwig and turn professors.' (then satirised by Mason) I know CB had some vague connection with refurbishing the Melon Ground at Hampton Court.....
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A lovely essay on #translation by Rosalind Harvey
Is That a Familiar Feeling? - Words Without Borders
In this intimate and insightful essay, Rosalind Harvey explores the complex emotional and professional terrain of literary translation, weaving together attachment theory, career precarity, and the un...
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February 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A lovely essay on #translation by Rosalind Harvey
eating a cheese called Capability Brown
February 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
eating a cheese called Capability Brown
Life imitates art.
February 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Life imitates art.
People I know in real life say I am modest, but that is because they do not know that almost every day this week I have texted my husband my NYT crossword completion time with the caption 'I am the king of the crossword'.
Also we have been together for 13 years today! More of that, I say.
Also we have been together for 13 years today! More of that, I say.
February 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
People I know in real life say I am modest, but that is because they do not know that almost every day this week I have texted my husband my NYT crossword completion time with the caption 'I am the king of the crossword'.
Also we have been together for 13 years today! More of that, I say.
Also we have been together for 13 years today! More of that, I say.
A good day to stay inside.
January 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
A good day to stay inside.
One of the great joys in life is eating an astonishing quantity of mashed potato straight from the pan and just a little too warm.
January 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
One of the great joys in life is eating an astonishing quantity of mashed potato straight from the pan and just a little too warm.
The doctor is in.
January 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The doctor is in.
I absolutely love this description of a book from an advert in the last LRB. Not sure I can think of a more delightful sentence than 'A Moby Dick for Elephants'.
January 16, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I absolutely love this description of a book from an advert in the last LRB. Not sure I can think of a more delightful sentence than 'A Moby Dick for Elephants'.
Other news - I'm on leave again! I'm reading Middlemarch!
January 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Other news - I'm on leave again! I'm reading Middlemarch!
I very much enjoyed writing this chapter on Thomas Gray and John Lydgate, and it's now been published and is out in the world! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Thomas Gray among the Medievalists | 9 | Thomas Gray among the Discipl
Thomas Gray is treated with some bemusement among medievalists for his enthusiastic championing of John Lydgate, the fifteenth-century ‘Monk of Bury’ who has
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January 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I very much enjoyed writing this chapter on Thomas Gray and John Lydgate, and it's now been published and is out in the world! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
I need the world to know that I have made some unbelievably good quick-pickled cucumber
January 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I need the world to know that I have made some unbelievably good quick-pickled cucumber
This year's festive reading is either very long, or very short.
December 23, 2024 at 10:24 AM
This year's festive reading is either very long, or very short.