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And did those feet in ancient time  [embedded content]

Postmodern discourse mumbo jumbo The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent...

When I’m 104 (private) [h/t Jeanette Meyer]

‘Le pied dans le plat’  [embedded content] Old love dies hard …

We few, we happy few  [embedded content] Saint Crispin’s Day falls on 25 October and is the feast day of Saint Crispin. It is a day most famous for the Battle of Agincourt, that occurred on it in 1415.

 [embedded content] In loving memory of Kristina.

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Never seek to tell thy love (private)  [embedded content]

Manhattan — Berlin  [embedded content]

For those of us who can’t get enough of English eccentrics, Brewer’s Rogues, Villains, Eccentrics by William Donaldson is probably the funniest book ever written. I mean, just to take one example, where else would you find an entry like this one? Carlton, Sydney (1949- ), painter and decorator. Those who argue that bestiality should be treated with understanding had a setback in 1998 when Carlton, a married man from Bradford, was sentenced to a year in prison for having intercourse with a...