rory
@rorysaur.dev
boba bartender, couch warmer, & cat whisperer @ catalog.fyi 📚
Lydgate's debt (allegedly, a furniture bill) is 11 times their annual rent?! 😧 🛖
April 5, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Lydgate's debt (allegedly, a furniture bill) is 11 times their annual rent?! 😧 🛖
so, Bulstrode is an Effective Altruist? 🙃 🛖
April 3, 2024 at 6:13 PM
so, Bulstrode is an Effective Altruist? 🙃 🛖
what does it mean to be an italian with white mice?? 🛖
March 28, 2024 at 5:14 PM
what does it mean to be an italian with white mice?? 🛖
I don't know about you but I'm on Team Mary for life. 🛖
March 17, 2024 at 11:16 AM
I don't know about you but I'm on Team Mary for life. 🛖
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“Dodo, no” continues to be my regular reaction to some of her thoughts and actions 🛖
March 11, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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Brian Dillon writes an entire chapter about this very sentence in his book Suppose a Sentence, which i happen to be reading on the side and had no idea it included a Middlemarch chapter until i ran into it last night! 🛖
catalog.fyi/books/suppos...
catalog.fyi/books/suppos...
The red decoration being hung about for the holidays is "spreading itself everywhere like a disease of the retina."
(Ch.20)
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Also, my sentiment when people nowadays trot out the Xmas decorations before it's even Halloween.
(Ch.20)
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Also, my sentiment when people nowadays trot out the Xmas decorations before it's even Halloween.
March 11, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Brian Dillon writes an entire chapter about this very sentence in his book Suppose a Sentence, which i happen to be reading on the side and had no idea it included a Middlemarch chapter until i ran into it last night! 🛖
catalog.fyi/books/suppos...
catalog.fyi/books/suppos...
Sir James Chettam is the psychologically healthy, toxicity-free role model we all needed. 🛖
Dorothea: Marriage is for duty, and also for learning Greek and Latin.
Casaubon: Surely the poets were all exaggerating about the force of passion?
Sir James: [gets over heartbreak in half an hour]
Eliot is really highlighting the absence of romantic love, even among people who say they're in it. 🛖
Casaubon: Surely the poets were all exaggerating about the force of passion?
Sir James: [gets over heartbreak in half an hour]
Eliot is really highlighting the absence of romantic love, even among people who say they're in it. 🛖
March 11, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Sir James Chettam is the psychologically healthy, toxicity-free role model we all needed. 🛖
to those who have printed out the #MiddlemarchMadness reading schedule: that is BRILLIANT. 🤯 brb i'm off to the copy shop! 🛖
March 1, 2024 at 5:45 PM
to those who have printed out the #MiddlemarchMadness reading schedule: that is BRILLIANT. 🤯 brb i'm off to the copy shop! 🛖
the #MiddlemarchMadness feed can now be seen on the Middlemarch page at my and @popp.bsky.social 's little project catalog.fyi 🛖 useful for showing people who aren't on bluesky (yet?) what they're missing out on here
#MiddlemarchMadness integration is up and running at our Middlemarch page on catalog! If you have friends who don't have Bluesky, they can follow the madness at this page.
(scroll down to "top conversations on" -> click "bluesky")
catalog.fyi/books/middle...
(scroll down to "top conversations on" -> click "bluesky")
catalog.fyi/books/middle...
Middlemarch by George Eliot • catalog
Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in the years 1830-32, has several interlocking storylines blended effortlessly together to form a fully coherent ...
catalog.fyi
March 1, 2024 at 3:24 AM
the #MiddlemarchMadness feed can now be seen on the Middlemarch page at my and @popp.bsky.social 's little project catalog.fyi 🛖 useful for showing people who aren't on bluesky (yet?) what they're missing out on here
TIL it was Criterion that popularized director's commentary and letterboxing. i was just going through the Criterion Collection yesterday because i was mildly devastated that i missed their flash sale. some of my favorite directors in the collection are Wong Kar-Wai, Edward Yang, and Céline Sciamma.
Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?
How the Criterion Collection became the film world’s arbiter of taste.
www.nytimes.com
February 29, 2024 at 9:41 PM
TIL it was Criterion that popularized director's commentary and letterboxing. i was just going through the Criterion Collection yesterday because i was mildly devastated that i missed their flash sale. some of my favorite directors in the collection are Wong Kar-Wai, Edward Yang, and Céline Sciamma.
farewell, TinyLetter. you were the best of them. 💌
www.theverge.com/24085737/tin...
www.theverge.com/24085737/tin...
TinyLetter had a big moment
A golden era for newsletters in the pre-Substack days.
www.theverge.com
February 29, 2024 at 6:55 PM
farewell, TinyLetter. you were the best of them. 💌
www.theverge.com/24085737/tin...
www.theverge.com/24085737/tin...
anybody else unable to stop hearing the name of this feed in the tune of Lana Del Rey's "Summertime Sadness" -- "I got that Middlemarch, #MiddleMarchMadness 🎵" ? just me? ok.
Summertime Sadness
Lana Del Rey · Song · 2012
open.spotify.com
February 27, 2024 at 11:55 PM
anybody else unable to stop hearing the name of this feed in the tune of Lana Del Rey's "Summertime Sadness" -- "I got that Middlemarch, #MiddleMarchMadness 🎵" ? just me? ok.