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The Antilibrary: The Hidden Value of Unread Books
The legendary Italian writer Umberto Eco had over 50,000 books in his private library.
When asked why so many, he had this to say: "It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy..."
Immigrants weren’t just filling existing jobs; they were helping create them. That’s Econ 101: jobs are not a fixed pie. More people means more customers, more demand, more businesses expanding, and yes, more hiring.
Photo of the book One day, everyone will have always been against this by Omar El Akkad. The cover is fully red with the small black silhouette of a child and a missile falling towards them.
This book is a beautifully harsh discussion about the politics of identity, journalism, power, resistance and the self interest/complacency of western liberalism, among many other things. It’s an essential read.
Ouse valley viaduct arches
Ouse Valley viaduct today
"Pouring Down" - my oil painting
books! King Richard II, Henry IV Pt Two, Day of the Triffids (old Penguin edition)
second had book haul!
Check this out. Free courses online from MIT.
ocw.mit.edu
I went in and looked at Writing About Literature and it's all there, syllabus, reading list, the lot. All free.
Please share.
A close up of budding leaves -- with the bundled leaf visibly already pushing out into the world
First run in a while. The weather pretty grey but spring is springing nonetheless.
obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)
I think I've forgotten how to process good news. I keep reaching to denounce something. Then I remember I don't have to. Such a good result. #greenparty
The extremism and racism of Reform (and the Conservatives) should not obscure that the most immediate issue is the vindictive, retrospective and entirely unnecessary/self-defeating nature of the government's own proposals.
More details here.
ukandeu.ac.uk/remigration-...
Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.
Roses are redde
Violettes are blue
Hieronymus Bosch
lobster violin, birde yn robes, partye yn a shoe
Maisy (cat) asleep with her chin resting on a ball of wall
This is a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.
Countries may fall, but their rivers and mountains remain: when spring comes to the ruined castle, the grass is green again.
- Bashō putting Brexit in context.
And now I'm crying first thing in the morning
I do not fear the rise of superintelligence.
I do, however, fear the rise of billionaires, organizations, and world powers who seek to use computing to maximize their power, influence, and control.
The very first episode of In Our Time with its new host Misha Glenny doesn't mess about: he's tackling JS Mill's On Liberty.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”
Make Art (1/4)
i love thinking about bagpipes as auditory heavy weapons
PURE DRAMA. (Yes, that's the town's name, and bonus points for the post's gratuitous Smiths / Morrissey reference.)
"Grimsargh residents left in the dark over when broken streetlight will be fixed
"There is a light that never goes on in Grimsargh and a councillor wants action..."
A year ago today I published my essay on Thaddeus Tuleja's Tibetan historical fantasy(?) novel LAND OF PRECIOUS SNOW (1977). It's obscure as hell, pretty fascinating, and I even tracked Tad down and interviewed him about this book!
This morning free write will go no further:
Luke flexed his fingers and imagined himself a gunslinger.
"Cool hand", his sidekick said to him admiringly.
"Thanks", said Luke. "Hey, that's a good idea for a nickname."
And that is how he came to be known as Luke With The Flexible Fingers.
Hopefully the kind of disaster that pushes us to a Green Party future with @zackpolanski.bsky.social
💚 🚦
Green for going forward to a brighter future.
Morgan McSweeney does have some fans in the Parliamentary Labour Party, of course. One MP says they are "devastated" he has left. Another warns it represents "full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism". An MP who has been through several general elections when the tide was against Labour says of colleagues: "Good luck to all these careerists when they face an election without someone like Morgan at the helm. "Some of us are old enough to remember the Corbyn era with no one in charge and the party floundering."
Nothing here to contradict my thesis (they’re just personally repellent, horrible people).
this labour government man . . .
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
