Microcosmic landscape in 12th century wall @maryfrancesness.bsky.social

from a few rusty well-worn strips of heavy duty metal fencing near the sea

walk through the underworld

Hi all, my contract at LMU ends this month and I don't have any options lined up. I know that many of us are in the same situation, but if you hear of any opportunities or projects you think I might be suited to (doesn't have to be in academia) please send me a message or comment below. Thanks!

Detail from The Dublin Journal issue 1650, April 1743

The famous advertisement in the Dublin Journal from the organisers asked 'Ladies not to come with Hoops' and 'The Gentlemen .. to come without their swords' as they were expecting such big numbers!

In S2E10 of the anime Frieren, there's a shot of a cliff which looks exactly like the Cliffs of Moher. Funnily enough, this shot is not in the original manga, so it must be an addition by the anime team, possibly a nod and tribute to the west of Ireland (though the actual elevation is 155m, not 3K).

Visiting the World Tree.

tree bark + plus a small shot of a tarkovsky film and some images of planets for children both found in a skip during a walk

A few of the many beautiful Kay Nielsen illustrations for East of the Sun and West of the Moon (1914), a book of Norwegian fairytales. See more illustrations, and read the stories, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e...

an encircling path of greening limbs, an spiraled portal of shadow and light

April’s ways

Activity Report 2025 Welcome to our Activity Report for the first nine months! Finnegans Web is a voluntary organisation based in Japan and Ireland. Our mission is to promote Finnegans Wake as well as international lit…

For an overview of our work since launch, you're welcome to see our first Activity Report here: finneganswake.net/activity-rep...

If you have any questions, feel free to ask us from the postbox icon on the bottom-right corner. 📮

Friends of Finnegans Web Finnegans Web is a voluntary organisation based in Japan and Ireland. Our mission is to promote Finnegans Wake as well as international literary exchange more generally.

I'd be eternally grateful if you could help us spread the word about our newly launched "Friends" programme.

Ours is the first time a high-quality Japanese translation of the Wake is made publicly available for free. Even though we have no public funding, we'd like to continue our work.

Translating Finnegans Wake into Japanese Dive into the world of translating Finnegans Wake for a Japanese audience!

Honoured and excited to be presenting at the James Joyce Centre next month about this topic. All heartily welcome! www.eventbrite.ie/e/translatin...

Activity Report 2025 Welcome to our Activity Report for the first nine months! Finnegans Web is a voluntary organisation based in Japan and Ireland. Our mission is to promote Finnegans Wake as well as international lit…

We are delighted to share our very first Activity Report from Japan's Finnegans Web.

In a nutshell, we're promoting Finnegans Wake in Japan. As a small new org with no public funding, we've done quite a lot in just nine months, if I may say so myself! finneganswake.net/activity-rep...

Bonus Ep. 39 - Henry V [TEASER] YouTube video by Blooms & Barnacles Podcast

Bonus Ep. 39 - Henry V (1944)

We round out our series on Shakespeare adaptations with a discussion of Laurence Olivier's take on Henry V.

We will now never speak of Shakespeare again.

Watch a preview on YouTube or watch the full video at patreon.com/barnaclecast

I saw a lone walker recently, very small, at the edge of a desert

... hidden worlds ...

[heavy bags put outside gates and doors during the fierce rain are now drying out .. and creating their own art]

The Mookse and the Gripes enter the chat. And about a dozen Popes with them. Or through them. And then straight into the wine-press where time is fermenting space.

In other words, we've had a great meeting today.
The matrix is as always by @augustinealoysius.bsky.social

The eagles are coming, he cried. No, wait. Wrong book, these are hegels. Their season is upon us. My sincere Mitleid.

Art by Linda Lotiel

There are some striking similarities between the story of Tristram and Iseult and the Tale of Genji: both protagonists are quasi-royalty, both fall into forbidden love, both play a string instrument, both are caught in political intrigue, both are witty, etc. etc.

Page from a manuscript (handwritten) book showing text and an elaborately decorated border, with the coat of the king of France at the bottom of the page.

Page from a printed 15th century book with an illumiated initial E

Some blingy books for world book day: A mid-15th century manuscript of Caesar's Gallic Wars, written on vellum, and that once belonged to the king of France; and our earliest printed book, the letters of Cicero to his friends printed on paper in 1472. Shiny! #WorldBookDay

Question 11 is poetic, but the answer is transmitted on the academic wavelength - until other stations interrupt it. Every Talis seeks its Qualis, while Joyce meets Proust, and Time drinks Space, wiping its whistle afterwards.
Our guest was once again @kenjihayakawa.com, bringing Hegelian gifts.

Detail from 17th century newspaper

Some delightful snarkiness from 17th century advice column The Athenian Gazette: a reader asks why the authors answer silly questions. Answer: 'everyone who sends any question thinks both himself and his question as wise as he that sent this'

Shandon Steeple showing best face after restoration work Known locally as the 'four-faced liar' because its clockfaces never told the same time, Cork's iconic Shandon Steeple is now showing its best face following the completion of a major restoration progr...

Wonderful to see the bells coming along! www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

I'm a simple man. I see a Miranda Melcher interview, I click listen. newbooksnetwork.com/a-four-eyed-...

▫️ other worlds ▫️

𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁

Fun fact 1: the name "Bashō" (i.e. of the well-known Japanese haiku poet) means "banana plant".

Fun fact 2: Sōseki Natsume, the early modern Japanese writer, used to have a row of basho's in the front garden of his residence in Waseda.