…roaming the streets of Oxford, England without a leash.
i am a sonic death monkey…
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Author Archives: ghw
“studied for action”
Jardine, Lisa and Anthony Grafton. “‘Studied for Action’: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy.” Past and Present: 129 (Nov. 1990): 30-78. Available through JSTOR (subscription required):
This essay forms part of a larger, book-length project, which is intended to contribute to the historical understanding of the ways in which humanistically trained readers assimilated and responded to the classical heritage. But it seeks to go beyond the traditional, textual definition of this field to reconstruct the social, professional and personal contexts in which reading took place. Although the present study deals with a topic historians tend to label as “high culture,” it will be clear that we also intend it to be in dialogue with a body of recent publications on the history of reading and of the book. That work, although by no means homogeneous, broadly concerns itself with the production and circulation of printed texts, and with setting the activity of reading in its historical and cultural contexts, as well as with some of the social implications that result from a particular locating of reading in history.
Many thanks to Ian for the recommendation.
since our last episode…
…I have
- been shopping with Laurie and Jeff on Regent Street in London on Sunday (we ate lunch at a pub called Shakespeare’s Head, which features witty Elizabethan sayings on the walls like “Having a hairy chest does not make you a porn star”),
- had dinner and then a pint with Meg on Sunday night,
- spent all day in the BL on Monday, joining Scott, Shelley, and Meg for lunch,
- trained up to Oxford on Tuesday to look at some things in the Bodleian, where the bathroom graffiti announces that “This place is full of scary old men and scary old books” (mad props* to Ian for making my trip to the town and to the library so effortless),
- spent the night at Ian’s and Fiona’s.
And finally, today I took the train to Manchester, where I am currently posting from an Internet cafe. I have some good pix to post, but wireless access for my laptop is uncertain, so I’m not sure when I’ll be able to share them. The plan is to take it easy today, do some grocery shopping, maybe catch a movie, and then hit the ground running tomorrow at the MARC.
*I’m so hip, aren’t I?
for parents and children the world over
- “Calling My Children Home,” by Emmylou Harris
- “One Morning,” by Gillian Welch
- “Masters of War,” by Scott Amendola & Carla Bozulich
- “Abide with Me,” by Perri Alleyne
And this is nicely done, too.
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makes a frappucino taste like a bad slurpee
If we could somehow use these in the “war on terrah,” then we will have already won.