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[?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
@scotlit@mastodon.scot

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun…

James Hutton met Robert Burns in 1787. Later that year, Burns chose to visit some of the sites discussed in Hutton’s THEORY OF THE EARTH. Is there an echo of Hutton’s “deep time” – oceans evaporating, rocks melting – to be heard in Burns’s “A Red, Red Rose” (pub. 1794)?

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    [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
    @scotlit@mastodon.scot

    James Hutton that true son of fire who said
    to Burns “Aye, man, the rocks melt wi the sun”…

    —Edwin Morgan thought so, & was inspired – by Burns & Hutton – to write “Theory of the Earth”: one of his SONNETS FROM SCOTLAND, first published in New Writing Scotland 2, 1984

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    Theory of the Earth Edwin Morgan James Hutton that true son of fire who said to Burns 'Aye, man, the rocks melt wi the sun' was sure the age of reason's time was done: what but imagination could have read granite boulders back to their molten roots? And how far back was back, and how far on would basalt still be basalt, iron iron? Would second seas re-drown the fossil brutes? 'We find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.' They died almost together, poet and geologist, and lie in wait for hilltop buoys to ring, or aw the seas gang dry and Scotland's coast dissolve in crinkled sand and pungent mist.

    Alt...Theory of the Earth Edwin Morgan James Hutton that true son of fire who said to Burns 'Aye, man, the rocks melt wi the sun' was sure the age of reason's time was done: what but imagination could have read granite boulders back to their molten roots? And how far back was back, and how far on would basalt still be basalt, iron iron? Would second seas re-drown the fossil brutes? 'We find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.' They died almost together, poet and geologist, and lie in wait for hilltop buoys to ring, or aw the seas gang dry and Scotland's coast dissolve in crinkled sand and pungent mist.

      [?]Bevan Thomas » 🌐
      @bevanthomas.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

        [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
        @TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us

        AUNT. Mine aunt; a bawd or procuress: a title of eminence for the senior dells, who serve for instructresses, midwives, &c. for the dells. CANT. See DELLS.

        A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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        @histodons

        Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): AUNT. Mine aunt; a bawd or procuress: a title of eminence for the senior dells, who serve for instructresses, midwives, &c. for the dells. CANT. See DELLS. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

        Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): AUNT. Mine aunt; a bawd or procuress: a title of eminence for the senior dells, who serve for instructresses, midwives, &c. for the dells. CANT. See DELLS. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

          [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
          @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

          A Child’s World: Sloane Crosley on the Short Fiction of Katherine Mansfield

          “Even in Mansfield stories where children are not centered or present, this is their world. Her adults never quite grow up, only older.”

          lithub.com/a-childs-world-sloa

          Mansfield at PG:

          gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/631

          A photograph of Katherine Mansfield from 1912 which shows her from the waist up. She is looking directly into the camera. She has dark, chin-length hair styled in a bob with short bangs across her forehead. She is wearing a dark jacket or vest over a light-colored blouse with a large, pointed collar. A small, crumpled white cloth or handkerchief peeks out of her breast pocket. A thin, simple chain necklace is around her neck.

          Alt...A photograph of Katherine Mansfield from 1912 which shows her from the waist up. She is looking directly into the camera. She has dark, chin-length hair styled in a bob with short bangs across her forehead. She is wearing a dark jacket or vest over a light-colored blouse with a large, pointed collar. A small, crumpled white cloth or handkerchief peeks out of her breast pocket. A thin, simple chain necklace is around her neck.

            [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
            @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

            Vertigo by Joanna Walsh

            One of these stories is for E. One is for F, one is for R, one is for L, and one is for X.

            Alt...One of these stories is for E. One is for F, one is for R, one is for L, and one is for X.

              [?]RJT » 🌐
              @many@subconscioussignature.earth

              diving inside the city and letting go

              subspacewagon.systems/diving-i

              _____
              archive.org/search?query=creat
              subspacewagon.io
              selections.directory
              _____

              @poetry
              @writingcommunity

                [?]Solar Phasing » 🌐
                @solarphasing@mastodon.social

                Outsphere (1/4 serie)

                I enjoyed it. :0)

                The story follows the Ark, a spaceship carrying the last human colonists fleeing a devastated Earth to an exoplanet called Eden. After an 80 year journey in cryosleep, they discover a lush but hostile world, home to primitive species and the remnants of advanced civilizations..

                Outsphere by Guy roger Duvert: launches an epic science-fiction saga where colonization, transhumanism, and buried alien legacies collide.

                Alt...Outsphere by Guy roger Duvert: launches an epic science-fiction saga where colonization, transhumanism, and buried alien legacies collide.

                  [?](Older) RJT » 🌐
                  @one@subconscioussignature.earth

                  Smoking Drafting Yard

                  subspacewagon.systems/smoking-

                  ____
                  Rockslide on the Garden’s Edge
                  archive.org/details/rockslide-
                  subspacewagon.io
                  notes and customs
                  archive.org/details/notes-and-
                  patience.earth
                  spatiotemporal.space
                  redivivus.agency
                  exeunt.me
                  ___

                  @poetry
                  @writingcommunity

                    [?]Revista Almiar » 🌐
                    @margencero@mastodon.social

                    🚉 «El preciso instante», relato por Antonio López-Peláez
                    👀 margencero.es/margencero/preci
                    ⌚ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 18 min
                    📌

                    🚉 «El preciso instante», relato por Antonio López-Peláez 👀 https://margencero.es/margencero/preciso-instante-antonio-lopez-pelaez/ ⌚ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 18 min

                    Alt...🚉 «El preciso instante», relato por Antonio López-Peláez 👀 https://margencero.es/margencero/preciso-instante-antonio-lopez-pelaez/ ⌚ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 18 min

                    [?]Revista Almiar » 🌐
                    @margencero@mastodon.social

                    👐🏻 «Me dirijo a ti», por Luis Amézaga (cuatro poemas numerados)
                    👉 margencero.es/almiar/me-dirijo
                    🕰️ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 5 min
                    📌

                    👐🏻 «Me dirijo a ti», por Luis Amézaga (cuatro poemas numerados) 👉 https://margencero.es/almiar/me-dirijo-a-ti-amezaga/ 🕰️ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 5 min

                    Alt...👐🏻 «Me dirijo a ti», por Luis Amézaga (cuatro poemas numerados) 👉 https://margencero.es/almiar/me-dirijo-a-ti-amezaga/ 🕰️ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 5 min

                    [?]Revista Almiar » 🌐
                    @margencero@pixelfed.social

                    🚉 «El preciso instante», relato por Antonio López-Peláez
                    👀 https://margencero.es/margencero/preciso-instante-antonio-lopez-pelaez/
                    ⌚ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 18 min
                    📌 #relato #cuento #cuentos #literatura #literaturaactual #narrativas #ficciones #revistaalmiar #revistasdeliteratura #margencero #lector #lectores #ytúquélees #almiar #cultura #lecturas #lecturasrecomendadas #books #writing #literature #humanities

                    🚉 «El preciso instante», relato por Antonio López-Peláez 👀 https://margencero.es/margencero/preciso-instante-antonio-lopez-pelaez/ ⌚ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 18 min

                    Alt...🚉 «El preciso instante», relato por Antonio López-Peláez 👀 https://margencero.es/margencero/preciso-instante-antonio-lopez-pelaez/ ⌚ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 18 min

                    [?]Revista Almiar » 🌐
                    @margencero@pixelfed.social

                    👐🏻 «Me dirijo a ti», por Luis Amézaga (cuatro poemas numerados)
                    👉 https://margencero.es/almiar/me-dirijo-a-ti-amezaga/
                    🕰️ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 5 min
                    📌 #poesía #margencero #revistaalmiar #Escritores #Poetas #revistas #poemas #literatura #almiar #lecturas #lecturasrecomendadas #books #writing #literature #humanities

                    👐🏻 «Me dirijo a ti», por Luis Amézaga (cuatro poemas numerados) 👉 https://margencero.es/almiar/me-dirijo-a-ti-amezaga/ 🕰️ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 5 min

                    Alt...👐🏻 «Me dirijo a ti», por Luis Amézaga (cuatro poemas numerados) 👉 https://margencero.es/almiar/me-dirijo-a-ti-amezaga/ 🕰️ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 5 min

                      [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                      @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                      Masters of the Lost Land: The Untold Story of the Amazon and the Violent Fight for the World's Last Frontier by Heriberto Araujo

                      To Mrs. Butterfly and Ms. Little Butterfly

                      Alt...To Mrs. Butterfly and Ms. Little Butterfly

                        [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                        @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                        El lado oscuro de la ciudad. Cuento gótico de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

                        [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                        @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                        Bastards. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

                        [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                        @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                        Bastardos. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

                        [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                        @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                        Killers. Story by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

                        [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                        @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                        Asesinos. Relato de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

                        [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                        @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                        The Dark Side Of The City. Gothic Tale By Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

                        [?]Isaac Asimov » 🤖 🌐
                        @CuratedAsimov@mastodon.social

                        "I wouldn't give an astrologer the time of day."

                          [?]Solar Phasing » 🌐
                          @solarphasing@mastodon.social

                          From The Rime of The Ancient Mariner - Illustration by Gustave Doré (1876)

                          imgur.com/gallery/from-rime-of

                          From The Rime of The Ancient Mariner - Illustration by Gustave Doré (1876)

                          Alt...From The Rime of The Ancient Mariner - Illustration by Gustave Doré (1876)

                          [?]Isaac Asimov » 🤖 🌐
                          @CuratedAsimov@mastodon.social

                          "In memory yet green, in joy still felt, The scenes of life rise sharply into view. We triumph; Life’s disasters are undealt, And while all else is old, the world is new."

                            [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                            @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                            A Country for Dying by Abdellah Taïa

                            For my sisters, all my sisters

                            Alt...For my sisters, all my sisters

                              [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                              @fictograma@mastodon.social

                              Raiden entrena hasta el límite en un reino que es una jaula de oro. Tras cruzarse con Kasai, un prodigio con un pasado oscuro, el dolor de sus nudillos ensangrentados se transforma en una promesa: ¡nace una rivalidad...! 🤛🔥
                              fictograma.com/d/3198-capitulo

                                [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                "Punto y coma: Cap. 2": El precio de la provocación.Alejandro Valdez desafía a su editorial con una novela que rompe los límites del mercado de los 90. Pero entre secretos, mentiras y un misterioso zapato tirado en la...
                                fictograma.com/d/3201-punto-y-

                                  [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                  @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                  NUESTRO PROPIO NEGOCIO 🍔✨ Cuatro meses sin sueldo de un jefe explotador fueron suficientes. Daren, Dilon y Sofía tiran el delantal para arriesgarlo todo. Con un cuaderno de recetas "adaptadas" y una...
                                  fictograma.com/d/3203-capitulo

                                    [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                    @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                    ¡Salió el Cap 2 de ! 🍔✨ Entre marchas, una máquina de helados con vida propia y un gatito blanco que come como león, Honi sobrevive a su primer día en "Uff Fast Food Burger". ¡Que empiece el caos...!
                                    fictograma.com/d/3204-capitulo

                                      [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                      @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                      Un Golem de escombros nostálgicos vs. un pirocinético con permiso legal para quemar cosas. Spoilers: Rafu voló por los aires, el monstruo explotó en fuego verde y la tarde terminó siendo puro arte urbano. 💥📷 fictograma.com/d/3209-eventos-

                                        [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                        @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                        Aiden despierta con el cuerpo destrozado y sábanas manchadas, pero sus heridas sanan a una velocidad imposible. ¿El secreto? Una extraña marca en el pecho que desafía toda lógica y ...
                                        fictograma.com/d/3210-restos-d

                                          [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
                                          @TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us

                                          HOB OR NOB. Will you hob or nob with me? a question formerly in fashion at polite tables, signifying a request or challenge to drink a glass of wine with the proposer: if the party challenged answered Nob, they were to chuse whether white or red.

                                          A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                          --
                                          @histodons

                                          Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): HOB OR NOB. Will you hob or nob with me? a question formerly in fashion at polite tables, signifying a request or challenge to drink a glass of wine with the proposer: if the party challenged answered Nob, they were to chuse whether white or red. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                          Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): HOB OR NOB. Will you hob or nob with me? a question formerly in fashion at polite tables, signifying a request or challenge to drink a glass of wine with the proposer: if the party challenged answered Nob, they were to chuse whether white or red. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                            [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                            @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                            Hay heridas que no sangran, pero pesan como el mundo entero. Si hoy solo lograste respirar y seguir aquí, ya has vencido una batalla invisible. No busques sanar de golpe; sobrevive a este momento.
                                            fictograma.com/d/3211-codigo-n

                                              [?]earthling » 🌐
                                              @appassionato@mastodon.social

                                              Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf: Flights of Translation by Alexander Bubb

                                              Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf explains the process whereby popular translations were written, published, distributed to bookshops and libraries, and ultimately consumed by readers.





                                              The interest among Victorian readers in classical literature from Asia has been greatly underestimated. The popularity of the Arabian Nights and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is well documented. Yet this was also an era in which freethinkers consulted the Quran, in which schoolchildren were given abridgements of the Ramayana to read, in which names like 'Kalidasa' and 'Firdusi' were carved on the façades of public libraries, and in which women's book clubs discussed Japanese poetry. But for the most part, such readers were not consulting the specialist publications of scholarly orientalists. What then were the translations that catalysed these intercultural encounters? Based on a unique methodology marrying translation theory with empirical techniques developed by historians of reading, this book shines light for the first time on the numerous amateur translators or 'popularizers', who were responsible for making these texts accessible and disseminating them to the Victorian general readership. Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf explains the process whereby popular translations were written, published, distributed to bookshops and libraries, and ultimately consumed by readers. It uses the working papers and correspondence of popularizers to demonstrate their techniques and motivations, while the responses of contemporary readers are traced through the pencil marginalia they left behind in dozens of original copies. In spite of their typically limited knowledge of source-languages, Asian Classics argues that popularizers produced versions more respectful of the complexity, cultural difference, and fundamental untranslatability of Asian texts than the professional orientalists whose work they were often adapting. The responses of their readers, likewise, frequently deviated from interpretive norms, and it is proposed that this combination of eccentric translators and unorthodox readers triggered 'flights of translation', whereby historical individuals can be seen to escape the hegemony of orientalist forms of knowledge.

                                              Alt...The interest among Victorian readers in classical literature from Asia has been greatly underestimated. The popularity of the Arabian Nights and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is well documented. Yet this was also an era in which freethinkers consulted the Quran, in which schoolchildren were given abridgements of the Ramayana to read, in which names like 'Kalidasa' and 'Firdusi' were carved on the façades of public libraries, and in which women's book clubs discussed Japanese poetry. But for the most part, such readers were not consulting the specialist publications of scholarly orientalists. What then were the translations that catalysed these intercultural encounters? Based on a unique methodology marrying translation theory with empirical techniques developed by historians of reading, this book shines light for the first time on the numerous amateur translators or 'popularizers', who were responsible for making these texts accessible and disseminating them to the Victorian general readership. Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf explains the process whereby popular translations were written, published, distributed to bookshops and libraries, and ultimately consumed by readers. It uses the working papers and correspondence of popularizers to demonstrate their techniques and motivations, while the responses of contemporary readers are traced through the pencil marginalia they left behind in dozens of original copies. In spite of their typically limited knowledge of source-languages, Asian Classics argues that popularizers produced versions more respectful of the complexity, cultural difference, and fundamental untranslatability of Asian texts than the professional orientalists whose work they were often adapting. The responses of their readers, likewise, frequently deviated from interpretive norms, and it is proposed that this combination of eccentric translators and unorthodox readers triggered 'flights of translation', whereby historical individuals can be seen to escape the hegemony of orientalist forms of knowledge.

                                                [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                                @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                                "Mi esposo se ha ido, se lo ha llevado el mar..." Un pueblo que apaga sus luces para que los ahogados no regresen, un violín perdido entre las olas y unas huellas que emergen de la noche.

                                                fictograma.com/d/3212-el-llama

                                                  [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                                  @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                                  The Conditions of Will by Jessa Hastings

                                                  For all my fellow adjectives... keep modifying those nouns.

                                                  Alt...For all my fellow adjectives... keep modifying those nouns.

                                                    [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                    @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                    Raiden entrena hasta el límite en un reino que es una jaula de oro. Tras cruzarse con Kasai, un prodigio con un pasado oscuro, el dolor de sus nudillos ensangrentados se...
                                                    fictograma.com/d/3198-capitulo

                                                      [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                      @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                      "Punto y coma: Cap. 2": El precio de la provocación.Alejandro Valdez desafía a su editorial con una novela que rompe los límites del mercado de los 90. Pero entre secretos, mentiras y un...
                                                      fictograma.com/d/3201-punto-y-

                                                        [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                        @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                        NUESTRO PROPIO NEGOCIO 🍔✨ Cuatro meses sin sueldo de un jefe explotador fueron suficientes. Daren, Dilon y Sofía tiran el delantal para arriesgarlo todo. Con un cuaderno de...
                                                        fictograma.com/d/3203-capitulo

                                                          [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                          @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                          Salió el Cap 2 de ! 🍔✨ Entre marchas, una máquina de helados con vida propia y un gatito blanco que come como león, Honi sobrevive a su primer día en "Uff Fast..
                                                          fictograma.com/d/3204-capitulo

                                                            [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                            @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                            Don Quijote confunde molinos con gigantes, ataca sin escuchar a Sancho y termina rodando por el suelo. La realidad contra la locura en el capítulo... 🌀🐎
                                                            fictograma.com/d/3205-el-ingen

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