Thomas A Poem for Good Friday

A day late, perhaps, but this is just as appropriate to the cosmic quiet of a Holy Saturday.
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Biblioll College’s Monthly Miscellany No. 13 Notes and highlights from March 2026

It's the first of the month and time for Biblioll College's Monthly Miscellany!

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48 Things I've Learned about Writing, by Writing Practical Advice from a Decade's Experience

Boze's latest Dispatch from Biblioll College.

My favorite is #19.

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This goes back to my favorite Hobby Horse: in Tolkien, the fear of death is the root cause of most humans’ turns to evil. Númenor fell when even the extra long lives given to them wasn’t enough. The ringwriaths were kings who chose Not Dying over actually Living.

#DickensClub - of (🤭😂) interest
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BBC Arts announces major new series on Charles Dickens for the National Year of Reading 2026 A bold new series explores the life and inspirations of the nineteenth-century novelist, journalist and social campaigner

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Thanks to @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social on x

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A Brief Primer on Old, Middle & Modern English It's Important That You Learn the Difference

Boze's latest dispatch from Biblioll College:

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Fun fact: Palantir employees are known internally as 'Hobbits'. Western civilization is 'The Shire' and 'protect The Shire' is the unofficial company motto.

Foreshadowings of this threat have been around since the Industrial Revolution and the so-called Enlightenment, at least. It is rapidly becoming an existential threat.
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The Men Who Want a World Stripped of Nature, Books, Beauty and Dreams All That You Love Will Be Carried Away

Foreshadowings of this threat have been around since at least the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment. It's rapidly becoming an existential threat.

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Our Thirty-Five Favorite Characters in Dickens A Celebration of the Greatest Character Writer in English

Rach & Boze's latest Dickensian dispatch from Biblioll College!

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Author Talk: NEW DEAL ART (World of Art) with John P. Murphy YouTube video by FDRLibrary

I love the British slang term "flog" ("promote") and have always wanted an excuse to use it:

Son John is in Chicago this afternoon (3pm Pacific time, 6pm East Coast) flogging his new book, NEW DEAL ART. If you can't join him in person, it will be on YouTube:

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Dispatches from Dickens No. 10: Dickens in 1838 or, Dickens’s letters as he begins Nicholas Nickleby…

Rach's latest Dickensian dispatch from Biblioll College. #Dickens
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The Dream of a Perfect Christmas The Shadow Canon 10: Cratchits, Hogwarts, Plum Puddings and the Festive Literary Canon

Here to make your Christmas Eve richer and merrier!

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5,000 Voices Strong — Let's Keep the Fight to Save the Cohen Building Going Dear Friends, Thank you for standing with us to protect the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building—our “Sistine Chapel of New Deal art.” With your support, our petition is now over 5,000 voices strong! As w...

I support this!

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Closing Reflections on My First Encounter with Thucydides and Euripides Post 15 of the series, Library-Educated: St. John’s College Great Books Challenge

Rach's latest Great Books dispatch from Biblioll College:
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Rach's latest "Dickens Dispatch" from Biblioll College:

Campus Ghosts: A Living Folklore The Shadow Canon No. 09: The Folklore of American Colleges

Boze's latest "Shadow Canon" post:
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The inhuman assault on Christmas On Christmas Carols, 1/2

Timothy Snyder on the abomination of what AI is doing to Christmas songs at his local coffee shop.

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Biblioll College's Monthly Miscellany No. 9 Notes and Highlights from November 2025

The latest from Biblioll College!

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The GREATEST ADVENT HYMN of all time YouTube video by Ben Maton - The Salisbury Organist

Boze’s latest Biblioll post (Substack) on that wonderful 85-hr Advent music playlist reminded me that one of my favorite YouTubers, Ben Maton, just put out a gorgeous video, filmed in a tiny Devon chapel, on “The Greatest Advent Hymn of All Time.” Highly recommend!

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The Only Christmas Carol Playlist You Will Ever Need Eighty-Five Hours of Medieval and Tudor Festive Joy

An 85-hour playlist with enough fantastic traditional music for the whole of Advent and the Christmas season as well!

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Why We Must Save the 'Sistine Chapel of the New Deal' From Trump Destruction | Common Dreams It is a tragic irony that murals meant to represent the contract between the government and its citizens—the Social Security that over 70 million Americans rely on today—would be sold to the highest b...

This.

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Have you seen this petition yet? Save the Wilbur J. Cohen Building — the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal”

Some who worked for the WPA during the Depression built infrastructure, like my Dad, who told me that the program had saved his life. Others made art in public spaces, like the Cohen Building in D.C.

Help save "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal" by signing this petition!

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: A Retrospective Revisiting the Most Underrated Film in the Franchise

Desperately miss these days when the entire country (planet?) went as one to movies like these, with lines snaking around the block. It brought us closer together.

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Son John, an art historian specializing in New Deal art, co-wrote this piece on a Washington DC building (and its art) worth saving:

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A haven of faith and literacy: St Philip’s Books in the heart of Oxford Tucked away on St Aldates, this is one of Oxford’s hidden treasures and is more than a bookstore. It serves as a warm hearth of Catholic intellectual life, where the love of books and the love of God ...

This is a fantastic little bookstore in #Oxford, crammed to the gills with all sorts of wonderful book, not just Catholic ones.

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Beware the Diabolic App That Seeks to Resurrect Your Dead Grandmother Against the Digital Necromancers

Necromancy in silicon.

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