TomSQC
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Bibliophile. Would-be linguist. Ardent moderate. Ubi amor et caritas Deus ibi est. 'Pour que de notre amour naisse la poésie' (Mountain Laurel by Donal)
Sea daffodils, my favorite Aegean flower (photo credit: John Psaropoulos). The strangely colorful sunset is a result of smoke from the fires on the mainland.
"We ourselves need to see, and then to enable others to see, that migrants and refugees do not only represent a problem to be solved, but are brothers and sisters to be welcomed, respected and loved." #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove #WelcomeTheStranger
Vincent Van Gogh - The Garden at the Asylum at Saint-Rémy (1889) Oil on canvas, 91.5 × 72 cm (~36.0 × 28.3 in)
Pair of gloves 1600–1625 British-made, from the Met Museum
"When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?" P. D. James by Ulf Andersen, 1987 Today we're celebrating the great mystery writer's birthday 🎂
“To write a decent story is such a huge and unlikely accomplishment that we shouldn’t care how long it takes.” —George Saunders
George Saunders, The Art of Fiction No. 245
My first meeting with George Saunders took place in his home of ten years, a ranch house in the Catskills. The house stood on fifteen acres of hilly woods, crisscrossed by narrow paths that he…
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A Glimpse of Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon (1902) comes from Matisse's dark period—yet it's built almost entirely from blue. From a window above the Seine, he dissolves cathedral, river, and sky into one field of colored light, edging toward Fauvism.
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." Happy birthday, James Baldwin!
Peter O'Toole, David Lean, Jack Hedley & Jack Hawkins on the set of Lawrence of Arabia 📷 Kent Gavin, 1962 After Marlon Brando turned down the role, Lean lobbied for O’Toole & won the day.
The Glasgow School of Art says that it can’t afford to rebuild the Mackintosh building after two disastrous fires. It’s time for the restoration to be taken out of its hands, writes Douglas Murphy
Glasgow will be humiliated if the Mack is not rebuilt
The Glasgow School of Art says it can’t afford to rebuild the Mackintosh building after two disastrous fires. It’s time for the restoration to be taken out of its hands, writes Douglas Murphy
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Noël Coward arriving at Southampton aboard the liner RMS Majestic, 1934
On #YorkshireDay, enjoy this lovely railway poster of the Yorkshire Dales by Ladybird artist Ronald Lampitt
The Sacred Mountain (1892) sets a lone idol on a volcanic hill behind a fence of skulls, the foreground a flat sweep of yellow flowers. Gauguin invented the site, borrowing the idol from Easter Island and the skull motifs from Marquesan ornament.
Vincent van Gogh, Edge of Wheat Field with Poppies, 1887
The Norman font of St. Peter’s Church at Hanwell in Oxfordshire. 📸 My own. #FontsOnFriday #Hanwell #Oxfordshire
Gislebertus hoc fecit: Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d'Autun, Flight into Egypt, circa 1130 AD.
I read Poetry as Enchantment, by Dana Gioia (2016), a plea for recovering the primacy of the joy and experience of poetry, and recalling that analysis and criticism are mere ancillary activities.
Listened again to @nataliehaynes.bsky.social standing up for #TheOdyssey and, well, what a brilliant retelling! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics - Series 8 - Homer: The Odyssey - BBC Sounds
Natalie retells Homer's epic story of homecoming, adventure and passion.
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Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · last wk.Odysseus is, per Natalie Haynes, possibly the only man in all of Greek myth to turn down immortality here.
