Amber Bowes
@arbowes.bsky.social
PhD student at Indiana University studying British literature and book history of the long 19C 📚🦇
asst book review editor @victstudies.bsky.social
reference assistant at Bloomington IN's Lilly Library
asst book review editor @victstudies.bsky.social
reference assistant at Bloomington IN's Lilly Library
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I'm in love with this cartoon "The Octopus" from the Moody Bible Institute Monthly, December 1925
January 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I'm in love with this cartoon "The Octopus" from the Moody Bible Institute Monthly, December 1925
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Wonderful. Not quite the same, but here's an elegy for a worn-out font of type, from The Compositor's Chronicle, 1 May 1842. The first two stanzas:
December 7, 2024 at 4:37 AM
Wonderful. Not quite the same, but here's an elegy for a worn-out font of type, from The Compositor's Chronicle, 1 May 1842. The first two stanzas:
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A medieval Post-it note (well, actually a Sew-it note!)
A piece of 13th century parchment with some additional info sewn onto a margin of an 11th century Martyrology.
BnF Latin 9085
A piece of 13th century parchment with some additional info sewn onto a margin of an 11th century Martyrology.
BnF Latin 9085
December 13, 2024 at 9:30 AM
A medieval Post-it note (well, actually a Sew-it note!)
A piece of 13th century parchment with some additional info sewn onto a margin of an 11th century Martyrology.
BnF Latin 9085
A piece of 13th century parchment with some additional info sewn onto a margin of an 11th century Martyrology.
BnF Latin 9085
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You see the printed black square from a page in Robert Fludd's "Utriusque cosmi maioris" (1617) that represented the nothingness that was prior to the universe. The square is framed by four sentences in Latin: "Et sic in infinitum" (And so on to infinity). #earlymodern #skystorians
April 21, 2024 at 4:06 PM
You see the printed black square from a page in Robert Fludd's "Utriusque cosmi maioris" (1617) that represented the nothingness that was prior to the universe. The square is framed by four sentences in Latin: "Et sic in infinitum" (And so on to infinity). #earlymodern #skystorians
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Finally assimilating this obit and this loss— a poet & critic meet in an Indiana elevator, and together reshape the fundamental structure of literary criticism and, in the process, the general ideological field of the world. What a beautiful legacy. RIP.
November 19, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Finally assimilating this obit and this loss— a poet & critic meet in an Indiana elevator, and together reshape the fundamental structure of literary criticism and, in the process, the general ideological field of the world. What a beautiful legacy. RIP.
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Thought I’d make my first post both positive and useful-so here’s a list of all of the free-to-view titles now available on the British Newspaper Archive:
blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...
blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...
List of Free to View Pages | British Newspaper Archive
Working in partnership with the British Library, here we present a list of all newspaper pages included in our free to view newspaper collection.
blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
November 13, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Thought I’d make my first post both positive and useful-so here’s a list of all of the free-to-view titles now available on the British Newspaper Archive:
blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...
blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...
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Personally I think satire is an important form of deprogramming! Mocking and marginalizing conspiracies often works better than debunking or debating them.
I'm relieved about downfall of this ghoul and the fact that this is *with* the Sandy Hook families is a good sign, but I was hoping this would become a kind of deprogramming site? I wanted to see some harm undone. I'm not sure you get there with satire.
Hi everyone.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
November 14, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Personally I think satire is an important form of deprogramming! Mocking and marginalizing conspiracies often works better than debunking or debating them.
Looking through Arthur Symons' Aubrey Beardsley books at the Lilly Library today, and came across A Coat in the 1905 edition (J.M. Dent).
Where can I get this coat? Where can I wear this coat?
Anyone know this coat?
Please advise. #ootd
Where can I get this coat? Where can I wear this coat?
Anyone know this coat?
Please advise. #ootd
November 13, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Looking through Arthur Symons' Aubrey Beardsley books at the Lilly Library today, and came across A Coat in the 1905 edition (J.M. Dent).
Where can I get this coat? Where can I wear this coat?
Anyone know this coat?
Please advise. #ootd
Where can I get this coat? Where can I wear this coat?
Anyone know this coat?
Please advise. #ootd
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let me follow with an observation from peacebuilders and scholars of Peacebuilding: enduring peace and safety for people lives in little acts, in the small habits of daily life that build safety and care for others. these often take profound bravery but require no bravado.
It’s amazing to me, & something I observe in my book, that the advice of actual activists like Grace Lee Boggs, below, via @prisonculture.bsky.social, sounds so little like the revolutionary action-fantasies expressed in (mostly male) social media posts & much more like the plot of Middlemarch
“We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of critical mass. It’s always about critical connections.”
November 13, 2024 at 5:36 PM
let me follow with an observation from peacebuilders and scholars of Peacebuilding: enduring peace and safety for people lives in little acts, in the small habits of daily life that build safety and care for others. these often take profound bravery but require no bravado.