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Philology and esoterica: scribblings, ravings and mutterings. O&P's Current Pick: Odious' Links:
The Little Bookroom
Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary
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Monday, March 19, 2012
It is St. Joseph's day, a good day for eating much and brewing beer. Here's what St. Teresa of Avila had to say of him: I took for my advocate and lord the glorious Saint Joseph and commended myself earnestly to him; and I found that this my father and lord delivered me both from this trouble and also from other and greater troubles concerning my honor and the loss of my soul, and that he gave me greater blessings than I could ask of him. I do not remember even now that I have ever asked anything of him which he has failed to grant. I am astonished at the great favors which God has bestowed on me through this blessed saint, and at the perils from which He has freed me, both in body and in soul. To other saints the Lord seems to have given grace to succor us in some of our necessities but of this glorious saint my experience is that he succors us in them all and that the Lord wishes to teach us that as He was Himself subject to him on earth (for, being His guardian and being called His father, he could command Him) just so in Heaven He still does all that he asks. This has also been the experience of other persons whom I have advised to commend themselves to him; and even to-day there are many who have great devotion to him through having newly experienced this truth. Labels: hagiography Wednesday, March 14, 2012
The Red Deer Cave people: a possible new human species, unearthed in Yunnan Province, China. Hat tip: Chas. Labels: China, paleontology Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
This'll really piss off the Greeks! Turcophile though I am, I can't say this is in the best taste. Plotting papists notwithstanding, they're really stretching to portray the Ottomans as noble underdogs in this fight. But, historical nuance be damned, the giant cannon and the carrying of the ships over the hill to the Golden Horn are events which really deserve to be portrayed on film, and it wasn't likely to happen in any context besides Turkish nationalism (though John Bellairs' Trolley to Yesterday could make a good movie). They should do the battle of Manzikert next. I'll bet it could be filmed largely on the actual location too: pretty sure it's still nice and empty out there in Muş. And Alp Arslan with his giant mustaches tied behind his head is surely a dream role for some actor. Hat tip: Byzantine Blog. Labels: history, movies, Turkey I am prepared to believe any conspiracy theory whatsoever that involves the Denver airport. Via Rod Dreher. Labels: appalling, Colorado, horrible creeping statism Monday, March 05, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
New frontiers in long-distance hiking: a proposed Great Plains Trail. Pretty neat idea, though I imagine securing access and easements would be a long, long process. But I'd certainly check out the New Mexico sections if it ever comes about. Labels: Landscapes, the West Thursday, February 09, 2012
Video of a wooly mammoth in Siberia? Don't I wish! Now that the world is flooded with cheap, user-friendly cameras intended to produce usable pictures even when handled by drunks in bars, mysterious blurry footage is real hard to take seriously. On a similar note, apparently there's been an uptick of sasquatch sightings in the Chuska Mountains (New Mexico-Arizona border in Navajo country), of all places. Labels: cryptozoology, frivolity, hoaxes, New Mexico Tuesday, January 24, 2012
New Mexico is stretching an inch every 40 years. Surprisingly evenly, as it turns out. Labels: Geology, New Mexico Sunday, January 22, 2012
Sunday, January 15, 2012
My kind of poem: Please Sir, God of DeathVia photographer Rajan Parrikar, who notes that the poem "captured the essence of what it means to be Goan". Tuesday, January 10, 2012
I can't believe I've lived over three decades unaware of this: Below the thunders of the upper deep;Hat tip to Derb (apropos of something very random) Labels: cephalopods, poetry Sunday, January 08, 2012
Fragment of an unfinished libretto: JIM WALKER: -from I Carnefici di Taos (Act II finale), dated January 1912, Prawne family archives Labels: New Mexico, opera, Prawne family Saturday, January 07, 2012
Och, science! Scottish scientists recreate Shackleton's whisky Labels: alcohol, exploration, polar regions, Scotland |
