Maybe I'll get on board with this AI lark after all, if it starts claiming that I have coined 'key concepts in literary theory' when all I was up to was trying to find a link to an essay I wrote. Then again, as it says at the bottom, 'AI responses may include mistakes'.

Advice in a 1944 Colloquial Hungarian textbook; useful for the internet age.

Obligatory Oxford-academic's-first-trip-to-the-Schwarzman photo.

Long before 'cozzy livs' and 'platty jubes', Scots were suffering from the 'shakky trimmles'.

What do people who don't use Bible Gateway use as a first stop when they want to compare multiple translations of the Bible, across multiple languages? Because this has just flung a spanner into my afternoon:

If only I'd thought of that, responds Keir Starmer.

Ah, the seventeenth century, when the dream was not artificial but Human General Intelligence, revealed by art.

Splitting; or, one of these is not like the others.

To even my own surprise, I appear to have written an essay in a volume on Walter Pater. Many congratulations to the editors, and thanks to their patience with my c19th noviceishness. I wrote about what Pater means by 'quaintness'. Very much looking forward to reading the other contributions.

Late to say so (have been distracted), but this is happening tomorrow! But not where it says it is: Large Seminar Room, Rothermere American Institute.

The Ashmolean's COLOUR exhibition is fantastic. I was too dazzled by the iridescence to take photos, but I was much taken with shades of blue: Ruskin's kingfisher's wing, Millais's blue velvet, and Anna Atkins's vivid cyanotypes. Go, go, go again!