The following section, from Erving Goffman’s essay On Face Work, understood in political terms, is a lot more helpful than explanations provided by those who generally appeal to facts as being a trump card (‘appealing to the referee’, or ‘speaking to the manager’).
Continue reading “Facts are of the schoolboy’s world”Author: diasyrmus
A melancholy emblem of parish cruelty.
The Perfect Kiss – Notes on Dublin Books 1: The Chester Beatty Library, MS 751
This opening shows clear traces of kissing, an act reserved for especially sacred passages, such as the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20.1-17)
Exhibition note for Samaritan Pentateuch,
Abi Barakatah
1225, Palestine (historical region)
CBL Heb 751 at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
Logos: The word he utters, the truth that it contains…
Continue reading “The Perfect Kiss – Notes on Dublin Books 1: The Chester Beatty Library, MS 751”Lessons
I can learn such useful phrases as Exuberancía es Belleza:
improving spanish lingo
bought some books to help me with my day to day spanish
My day to day spanish is currently zero.
More Things Can Happen Than Will Happen
I see a lot of poor decision making and thinking because people, perhaps many people, do not understand the concept ‘more things can happen than will happen.’
Continue reading “More Things Can Happen Than Will Happen”Institutions and Ideologies
On holiday, and re-reading the beginning of Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s The Self Awakened, full of enormously potent and clarifying observations, and often quite intellectually thrilling to read, so much so that it gets my ‘feels too good’ suspicion heuristic going.
Continue reading “Institutions and Ideologies”Improving Spanish Tempos
…and the fish i was buying when i bumped into toby jones
it fell apart when i took it out because a) i cooked it for slightly too long and b) the fish slice has gone completely awol. kin great tho.
reminds me of this lunch i had near trafalgar after the second nicest birthday i’ve ever had:
after a difficult and stressful morning here (atlas mountains in the background)
and here
Berberian Sound Studio
Repost of an old tumblr entry, prompted by exchanging some mild pleasantries with Toby Jones this morning at the local market.
Continue reading “Berberian Sound Studio”What’s up?
I had a surprisingly nice evening.
Cycled up to the British Museum in the face of a bit of headwind for The Age of Stonehenge exhibition.
Continue reading “What’s up?”Two Great Songs for the Price of One Bike Ride
Took my toaster to be recycled at the Lambeth electrical recycling yesterday. On my bike. Up (v much *up*) into the rather weird Norwood/Dulwich suburban hinterland.
Sang Hexen Definitive/Strife Knot on the way back because i cycled past a red church on a hill:
Sang Political Confusion by Big Youth on the way there, because I was… recycling a toaster maybe?
Yes, I’m just going to be using this as a scrapbook blog of stuff why do you ask.