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I'm with Eco on buying and reading books, which are companionably shelved and stacked all around me right now.
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: "It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.
There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!
Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."
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And this explains it!
421 years ago today, the Gunpowder Plot was foiled in the cellars beneath the House of Lords.
More than four centuries later, the event is still marked at the State Opening of Parliament, when the Yeomen of the Guard ceremonially search the cellars before the King arrives.
ALT The Yeomen of the Guard beginning their ceremonial search of the cellars.
ALT The Yeomen of the Guard beginning their ceremonial search of the cellars.
ALT The Yeomen of the Guard beginning their ceremonial search of the cellars.
ALT The Yeomen of the Guard beginning their ceremonial search of the cellars.
Happy Guy Fawkes Day / Bonfire Night for all UK friends.
'Pray to remember
The fifth of November...'
Some old variants on #BonfireNight rhymes from different parts of England, which children would sing when going around collecting fuel for their bonfires archive.org/details/englishf…
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The Old English equivalent of orðstírr would be tīrfæst, glory-fast.
Tīrfæst combines tīr, fame or glory, with fæst, (stead)fast, and like the Old Norse term orðstírr, refers to glory and reputation so great that it would outlast the individual. 1/2
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But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.
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Listening to Bach’s Air on the G String feels like letting your mind slowly settle, your worries gently fade, and everything fall into harmony with the music’s peaceful flow.
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Sir Patrick Stewart’s last post..
Reading sonnet 116.
A masterclass on reading Shakespeare !
RIP & blessings to you and your family..
Live long and prosper 🖖
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To celebrate the birthday of William Shakespeare, I’m sharing a few lines from my most favorite sonnet, Sonnet 116. I’ve converted a few of my friends to its cause, and I’m hoping you’re next. Cheers!
You can hear the entire collection in “Patrick Stewart Performs the Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare” available now: bit.ly/PatrickStewartSonnets
@SimonAudio
#NationalShakespeareDay
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It's #Halloween and every year we like to carve a #Pumpkin from our collection of @PenguinBooks. 🎃
We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃
ALT A pumpkin made of orange and black books with a spooky face
In every role he played, his Shakespearean background was very evident! telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2…
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National Chocolate Day! 😋
Yorkshire has a long history of chocolatiers. 🍫
York earned the nickname "The Chocolate City" in the 19th century, built by Quaker families who favoured the cocoa trade as an alternative to the drink trade.
Rowntree's gave the world Kit Kat, Smarties and Aero. Terry's created the Chocolate Orange and it all traces back to a grocer's shop run by Mary Tuke, later taken over by fellow Quaker Henry Isaac Rowntree in 1862.
Some of Britain's most iconic chocolate was dreamed up right here in Yorkshire. – at Yorkshire and The Humber, England
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611 years ago today, St Crispin's Day 1415, Henry V's outnumbered English army won at Agincourt.
Shakespeare gave him the line every soldier since has borrowed:
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers."
Our people carried that inheritance across the Atlantic.
Remembering the anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt today.
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POV: You’re helping build a 100,000+ LEGO masterpiece 🤯✨
Do you enjoy playing with LEGO? Would you like to be part of a huge LEGO building project? Then come on down to The Stump in Boston, Lincolnshire!
#Lego #LegoBuild #BostonLincolnshire #POV #StBotolphs
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The Beowulf Manuscript (BL Cotton MS Vitellius A XV)
Example of an Lertix
The ears of an ass (donkey),
The wool of a sheep,
The feet of a bird.
MS damaged during the Cotton collection fire in 1731.
Link --> medievalmanuscriptsunlocked.…
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