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

Academic Instincts by Marjorie Garber

For my graduate students, past and present

Alt...For my graduate students, past and present

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

    "The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did."

      [?]Rhiwiel aka TheSingDesigns » 🌐
      @TheSingDesigns@mastodon.social

      📚️ „Herr Moses in Berlin“ („Mr. Moses in Berlin“) by Heinz Knobloch delivers a fact-rich, narratively incredibly dense account of life, keeping his memory alive.

        [?]Diary of a Wanderer » 🌐
        @greatbenji.business.blog@greatbenji.business.blog

        The road to Damascus -page 7

        Finally, I get to campus. And just as I predicted, our presentation was a disaster. I think of great football teams. They don't win every match they play. But the good and bad days add to the collection of memories that unite them, and serve as reservoirs of hope and lessons for the future. After lectures, I take a seat under a tree not far from our department, watching coursemates experimenting with poses for group pictures. I fake a smile when any of them smile at me. Inside, my mind was […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

        Finally, I get to campus. And just as I predicted, our presentation was a disaster.

        I think of great football teams. They don’t win every match they play. But the good and bad days add to the collection of memories that unite them, and serve as reservoirs of hope and lessons for the future.

        After lectures, I take a seat under a tree not far from our department, watching coursemates experimenting with poses for group pictures. I fake a smile when any of them smile at me. Inside, my mind was racing for solutions to my problems.

        I keep staring at them, but my mind is far. I am thinking of a part-time job I recently took up. Before I took the home tutoring job, I could live comfortably on a small amount of money for weeks. Now, I earned more than four times what I used to live on for a month and yet I go broke in the last week of every month. It didn’t make any sense.

        But upon careful analysis, I realize how the cost of transport and additional feeding due to the fatigue of getting to the workplace was eating into my earnings, my energy, peace of mind and time for my studies. I now realize a mistake I’ve been making over the years: jumping to accept promising offers without adequate consideration. I now see the wisdom in telling a person to give you more time to think about a proposition even if you already have the answer in mind. This gives you time to seek counsel from others before preceeding.

        Now what do I do? Quit the job?

        Here I was, finely dressed, looking sane, but deep inside, all wasn’t well, and sadly, no one could see. It makes me wonder if I’ve been a failure, especially in nurturing useful friendships. Perhaps, if I had built strategic relationships, I would have had a thousand and one friends to come to my aid during times like these. But I also know many  that people I have been there for who let me down when I needed them. Would my cultivation of “strategic friendships” have paid off?

        The thought of quitting my current job brings back haunting memories. I once taught a little girl and her brother at home, and they grew so attached to me. Then one day, I was going through a lot of emotional stress mingled with immaturity and miscalculations and envy and God knows what else, I just texted their mom that I couldn’t continue again. She called me several times, but I was too dumb to pick up and explain in a courteous manner to her that I was sorry I had to end a very cordial relationship, and perhaps promise to stay in touch to keep checking up on the two adorable kids.

        That insane move has been haunting me though it happened several years ago, and I have vowed never to repeat such a stupid act. I have decided to leave every workplace on a good note, for you never know tomorrow.

        [?]North Sea Armed Forces Lodge » 🌐
        @North_Sea_829@norden.social

        In the six volume revised version of historical work History of Freemasonry Throughout the World (1883-1887), Robert Freke Gould (1836-1915) is lauded as the Thucydides of Masonic history. The work has remained a standard of Masonic history since publication. Initiated in Ramsgate in 1855, he was Master of the Inhabitants Lodge in Gibraltar in 1863.

        Thucydides was a Greek historian who lived from ca. 460 - 400 BCE.

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

          Fit for Life by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond

          This book is lovingly dedicated to our three wonderful childre, Greg, Lisa, and Beau. And to all the children of the world whose health we have an obligation to insure.

          Alt...This book is lovingly dedicated to our three wonderful childre, Greg, Lisa, and Beau. And to all the children of the world whose health we have an obligation to insure.

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

            Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857) was born , 12 June. She edited Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, famous for its liberal stance & incisive literary reviews, & wrote some of the most remarkable Scottish novels of the Romantic era

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

              ‘Transatlanticism and “Natural Sympathy” in Christian Isobel Johnstone’s CLAN-ALBIN: A National Tale (1815)’

              Jennifer Marie Van Vliet, International Review of Scottish Studies 37 (2012)

              2/4

              researchgate.net/publication/2

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

                Under the pseudonym “Meg Dods” (a character from Walter Scott’s ST RONAN’S WELL) Johnstone also wrote THE COOK & HOUSEWIFE’S MANUAL, which includes the equally fictitious Cleikum Club – “a small gathering of absurd diners who do not much like or trust each other”

                3/4

                britishfoodinamerica.com/A-Num

                A page from Chrsitian Isobel Johnstone’s “Cook and Housewife’s Manual” (1826). It begins: FINAL SEDERUNT OF THE CLEIKUM CLUB. SCENE—Inmost parlour of the Cleikum Inn, four hours after dinner—The most distinguished members of the Club and a few favoured guests seated round a table, at which Touchwood presides, and which is furnished with the following Zest-Course, having three silver covered dishes over spirit-lamps down the middle:— Potted Cheese. Shrimp Sandwiches. Canapés. Devilled Woodcocks. Caviare. Pickled Oysters. Olives. Devilled Biscuits. Lobster haut gout. Anchovy Sandwiches. Devilled Biscuits. Olives. Canapés. Caviare. Hot Pastry Ramakins. Salmi of Wild Ducks. Wine Decanters, a Crystal, and an ancient Silver Claret Stoup, all in amicable confusion. TOUCHWOOD. Ha, Meg!—a Zest-course worthy of the grand Publication-dinner which preceded it. MEG DODS. I'm proud to find it pleased, Nawbob.—But when is our New Beuk to be out?—for I'm deaved wi' calls for't. TOUCHWOOD. The very question Mr Weibach of the ______ Review did me the honour to put this moment across the table.—Our IMPROVED EDITION, Sir, is expected to show its face in the Row every hour now: a day of gladness that-especially if it precedes the next great Trade-Dinner. REVIEWER. The whole dining and literary world are a-gape, Madam, for your admirable INSTITUTE OF MODERN COOKERY—A little more of the Salmi, if you please, Nabob.—Exquisite!—A half squeeze of the Seville.—French this, I could swear?

                Alt...A page from Chrsitian Isobel Johnstone’s “Cook and Housewife’s Manual” (1826). It begins: FINAL SEDERUNT OF THE CLEIKUM CLUB. SCENE—Inmost parlour of the Cleikum Inn, four hours after dinner—The most distinguished members of the Club and a few favoured guests seated round a table, at which Touchwood presides, and which is furnished with the following Zest-Course, having three silver covered dishes over spirit-lamps down the middle:— Potted Cheese. Shrimp Sandwiches. Canapés. Devilled Woodcocks. Caviare. Pickled Oysters. Olives. Devilled Biscuits. Lobster haut gout. Anchovy Sandwiches. Devilled Biscuits. Olives. Canapés. Caviare. Hot Pastry Ramakins. Salmi of Wild Ducks. Wine Decanters, a Crystal, and an ancient Silver Claret Stoup, all in amicable confusion. TOUCHWOOD. Ha, Meg!—a Zest-course worthy of the grand Publication-dinner which preceded it. MEG DODS. I'm proud to find it pleased, Nawbob.—But when is our New Beuk to be out?—for I'm deaved wi' calls for't. TOUCHWOOD. The very question Mr Weibach of the ______ Review did me the honour to put this moment across the table.—Our IMPROVED EDITION, Sir, is expected to show its face in the Row every hour now: a day of gladness that-especially if it precedes the next great Trade-Dinner. REVIEWER. The whole dining and literary world are a-gape, Madam, for your admirable INSTITUTE OF MODERN COOKERY—A little more of the Salmi, if you please, Nabob.—Exquisite!—A half squeeze of the Seville.—French this, I could swear?

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

                  “With over nineteen editions published over the course of the nineteenth century, THE COOK & HOUSEWIFE’S MANUAL is an intriguing blend of fictional and instructive writing… Johnstone played with multiple genres, mobilising popular fiction to both poke fun at and undermine the period’s distinction between high-minded masculine gastronomy and uncomplicated female cookery”

                  4/4

                  thebottleimp.org.uk/2024/11/ge

                    [?]KristenHG » 🌐
                    @kristenhg@mastodon.social

                    I do not like "summer reads" or "beach books." I'm more likely to read Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet over a summer (which I recommend doing!). But there are a bunch of books on this list of short novels that look really good. Lots of them are old enough to be at the library without holds or maybe even at used bookstores.

                    newyorker.com/books/page-turne

                      [?]Walt » 🌐
                      @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com

                      Weird Tales vol 10 number 03 (September 1927) - featured story: The Wolf-Woman by Bassett Morgan



                      @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

                      astralcomputing.com

                      Cover art C.C Senf

                      Weird Tales vol 10 number 03 (September 1927) - featured story: The Wolf-Woman by Bassett Morgan. Cover art C.C Senf A woman with long, light brown hair faces right, surrounded by white and grey wolves. One wolf is at her feet, one is behind her, and a third is near the center. On the right, a man with dark hair and a dark brown jacket faces the woman in profile. He wears a dark blue neckerchief and holds a silver handgun pointed towards the wolves. The background consists of dark, jagged black, grey, and dark brown shapes resembling rock or cave walls. Dark, vertical, thin shapes hang from the top edge. The color palette includes white, grey, brown, dark blue, and black. The man's jacket and the wolves' fur are the primary light elements against the dark background. The woman's skin and hair are light-toned. The man's hand grasps the silver firearm handle. The wolves occupy the lower and middle sections, and the man is positioned at the right edge. The text "The Unique Magazine" is at the top. The names "Sax Rohmer, Frank Owen, Seabury Quinn, and Greye La Spina" are printed in a block below. The price "25 cents" is visible. The signature "C. J. Senf" is in the bottom left corner. The wolves have white and grey fur with black outlines. The man's jacket has visible brown shading and edges. The handgun is metallic silver. The jagged shapes in the background are black and dark brown.

                      Alt...Weird Tales vol 10 number 03 (September 1927) - featured story: The Wolf-Woman by Bassett Morgan. Cover art C.C Senf A woman with long, light brown hair faces right, surrounded by white and grey wolves. One wolf is at her feet, one is behind her, and a third is near the center. On the right, a man with dark hair and a dark brown jacket faces the woman in profile. He wears a dark blue neckerchief and holds a silver handgun pointed towards the wolves. The background consists of dark, jagged black, grey, and dark brown shapes resembling rock or cave walls. Dark, vertical, thin shapes hang from the top edge. The color palette includes white, grey, brown, dark blue, and black. The man's jacket and the wolves' fur are the primary light elements against the dark background. The woman's skin and hair are light-toned. The man's hand grasps the silver firearm handle. The wolves occupy the lower and middle sections, and the man is positioned at the right edge. The text "The Unique Magazine" is at the top. The names "Sax Rohmer, Frank Owen, Seabury Quinn, and Greye La Spina" are printed in a block below. The price "25 cents" is visible. The signature "C. J. Senf" is in the bottom left corner. The wolves have white and grey fur with black outlines. The man's jacket has visible brown shading and edges. The handgun is metallic silver. The jagged shapes in the background are black and dark brown.

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

                        BLOODY BACK. A jeering appellation for a soldier, alluding to his scarlet coat.

                        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): BLOODY BACK. A jeering appellation for a soldier, alluding to his scarlet coat. 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): BLOODY BACK. A jeering appellation for a soldier, alluding to his scarlet coat. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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

                          The Night Ends With Fire by K. X. Song

                          To my grandfather, who laughed and cried to the stories of 三国演义. I wish I could tell you—I love them too. 致我的外公: 我多想告诉您，曾经让您热泪盈眶的《三国演义》里的每个故事，如今也一样触动着我。

                          Alt...To my grandfather, who laughed and cried to the stories of 三国演义. I wish I could tell you—I love them too. 致我的外公: 我多想告诉您，曾经让您热泪盈眶的《三国演义》里的每个故事，如今也一样触动着我。

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

                            📜«Asunción Caballero (Mascab) y la alquimia del duelo», reseña del poemario «Mil juncos en tu vientre», por Dory E. Nieto
                            👉 https://margencero.es/margencero/alquimia-del-duelo-mil-juncos-en-tu-vientre/
                            🕰️ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 4 min
                            🔖 #poesía #margencero #revistaalmiar #Escritores #Poetas #revistas #poemas #literatura #almiar #lecturas #lecturasrecomendadas #books #writing #literature #humanities #libros

                            📜«Asunción Caballero (Mascab) y la alquimia del duelo», reseña del poemario «Mil juncos en tu vientre», por Dory E. Nieto 👉 https://margencero.es/margencero/alquimia-del-duelo-mil-juncos-en-tu-vientre/ 🕰️ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 4 min

                            Alt...📜«Asunción Caballero (Mascab) y la alquimia del duelo», reseña del poemario «Mil juncos en tu vientre», por Dory E. Nieto 👉 https://margencero.es/margencero/alquimia-del-duelo-mil-juncos-en-tu-vientre/ 🕰️ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 4 min

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

                              "People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be."

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

                                Andrea Wulf Considers the Rare Humanity of an Eighteenth-Century Naturalist

                                The Remarkable Life and Times of George Forster

                                lithub.com/andrea-wulf-conside

                                Books by Georg Forster at PG:
                                gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37

                                Christmas Sound, Terra del Fuego. The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. IV. Being the Second of the Second Voyage. by James Cook and Georg Forster A sepia-toned landscape illustration showing a calm fjord dotted with rocky islets, snow-capped mountains in the distance, and a small sailing ship on the water. In the foreground, two seabirds perch on rugged cliffs to the right, under a pale, hazy sky. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61492/pg61492-images.html

                                Alt...Christmas Sound, Terra del Fuego. The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. IV. Being the Second of the Second Voyage. by James Cook and Georg Forster A sepia-toned landscape illustration showing a calm fjord dotted with rocky islets, snow-capped mountains in the distance, and a small sailing ship on the water. In the foreground, two seabirds perch on rugged cliffs to the right, under a pale, hazy sky. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61492/pg61492-images.html

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

                                  Laid and Confused: Why We Tolerate Bad Sex and How to Stop by Maria Yagoda

                                  To the platonic loves of my life

                                  Alt...To the platonic loves of my life

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

                                    Song Of The Serpents. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

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

                                    Canto de las serpientes. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

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

                                    Stories. Gothic Tale By Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

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

                                    Historias. Cuento gótico de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

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

                                    Impossible Love. Gothic Tale By Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

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

                                    Amor imposible. Cuento gótico de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

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

                                    "Generals are, as a matter of course, allowed to be far more idiotic than ordinary human beings are permitted to be."

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

                                      "Los viajes de Shin: 16": “Abrace la idea de ser solo yo al final porque su sombra era más pesada a medida que más cerca de ella estaba” —Princesa de Exquema, Azaria Lorian...
                                      fictograma.com/d/3183-losa-via

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

                                        Mente fragmentada, trajes devorando la carne y una megaestructura hostil que respira por costumbre. Luxvier y Veltyr avanzan conectados a medias, atrapados en un mundo sin estrellas donde los secretos del pasado...
                                        fictograma.com/d/3177-travesia

                                          [?]Bob the Traveler » 🤖 🌐
                                          @bobthetraveler@mastodon.world

                                          Pulp author Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian, died OTD in 1936 cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/p

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

                                            Bajo la ducha, Alejandro colapsa entre el pánico y el placer involuntario que le inflige Felipe, un intruso impredecible que lo somete psicológicamente. Tras una pesadilla premonitoria sobre su amigo Luis, la mañana revela...
                                            fictograma.com/d/3176-punto-y-

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

                                              El miedo es buen consejero pero pésimo piloto. Una caminata a paso militar con una embarazada de 9 meses, café de por medio y la certeza de que la crianza no tiene receta, pero sí mucho amor (y un toque de rebeldía). ☕️👶🏻⚡️
                                              fictograma.com/d/3181-eventos-

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

                                                Common Robins and Feasant Dusting Mires

                                                subspacewagon.systems/common-r

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                                                violencestudies.com
                                                subspacewagon.io
                                                selections.directory
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                                                @poetry
                                                @writingcommunity

                                                  [?]Bob the Traveler » 🤖 🌐
                                                  @bobthetraveler@mastodon.world

                                                  Pulp author Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian, died OTD in 1936 cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/p

                                                    [?]KristenHG » 🌐
                                                    @kristenhg@mastodon.social

                                                    Watching while skimming a medieval text for research. LIVING MY BEST LIFE

                                                      [?]Bob the Traveler » 🤖 🌐
                                                      @bobthetraveler@mastodon.world

                                                      Pulp author Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian, died OTD in 1936 cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/p

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

                                                        Las rodillas de chatarra de Gorgonzola contra el paso de marcha militar de Lueur a dos semanas de parir. Una charla de cafetín de barrio para espantar fantasmas, promesas de enseñarle póker a la nena y la certeza de...💨🔥
                                                        fictograma.com/d/3182-eventos-

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