@perditact

Author inc.Diary of an Accidental Witch series with @HonorCargillM

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Joined November 2014
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Spencer A. Klavan
@SpencerKlavanOct 12
Andrew Scott delivers this speech too slowly; I know some viewers will hate the way he breaks up the verse. AND YET even in spite of that I think this is the best delivery of this soliloquy I’ve ever seen. He makes it sound like it’s not a portentous speech everyone already knows but a morally serious real-time deliberation, by a highly intelligent person in extreme pain, considering what it would mean to end his own life.
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Scottish Books
@bookscotSep 29
On this four-week course from the University of Glasgow, you’ll delve into the dark world of the Tartan Noir genre. With each week focusing on a different literary feature, you’ll learn what distinguishes Scottish crime writing from its parallels elsewhere in the world.
Gerard Carruthers@GerardCarruthe2Sep 28
Our new @UofGlasgow free MOOC course on 'Tartan Noir', & featuring some big names being interviewed! Well done @craigscrolls on pulling all together. futurelearn.com/courses/tart… @UofGCritStudies @IASSL_ScotLit @EnglishAssoc @Saltire_Society @UofGCSCS @LiamMcIlvanney

Tartan Noir: Scottish Crime Writing - Online Course - FutureLearn

Delve into the dark world of Tartan Noir as you explore the style and literary history of Scottish crime writing, with this online course from the University of Glasgow.

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Frank Scozzari
@ScozzariFrankSep 9
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. —Mark Twain—
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Caroline Lawrence@CarolineLawrencJun 13
My latest venture is something completely new. It's a colouring book & interactive commentary on Homer's #Odyssey. Designed to get you and your kids off their devices and into #Classics! Thanks to @wmarybeard @GreekMythComix @britishmuseum & many others! amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI…
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Ashley Booth@MrBoothY6Aug 31
Can't wait to get back to it tomorrow. These are our class novels this year from Y3-6. For the first time, I'm not going to be reading it to my class - that stings!
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Marysia@marysia_ccAug 17
Giovanni di Paolo Madonna of Humility, ca 1442
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Apollo Magazine
@Apollo_magazineAug 17
In the 19th century, painters and especially printmakers were fascinated by fashion cycles – but sculptors seem to have missed out on the fun, writes Tom Stammers apollo-magazine.com/new-tast…
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British Athletics@BritAthleticsAug 17
We'll be watching this on repeat for the next few weeks 🤩 #Birmingham2026

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James@james_j_baileyAug 14
I’m a big fan of this photo of Madonna looking like a visiting lecturer who will absolutely not give you an extension on your modernist poetry essay because you chipped your tooth on a Snickers bar
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The Bookseller
@thebooksellerAug 14
The London Review Bookshop has reported £1m annual sales for the first time, thanks – in part – to its partnership with the restaurant St JOHN. 👇 ebx.sh/XmAfuL

St JOHN partnership helps LRB Bookshop to £1m annual sales for first time

The London Review Bookshop has reported £1m annual sales for the first time, thanks – in part – to its partnership with the restaurant St JOHN.

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Vincenzo DM@DM_VincenzoAug 11
This exhibition in London (National Gallery / Nov 26 - April 27) is without a doubt one the most important events in years: all known portrait paintings by Jan van Eyck will feature in one exhibition!
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The Folio Society@foliosocietyAug 8
Open the door to Cherry Tree Lane. 👜✨ Our Folio book of P. L. Travers’s Mary Poppins brings the Banks children’s extraordinary adventures together with Sara Ogilvie’s joyful illustrations. foliosociety.com/mary-poppin…
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Frank Scozzari
@ScozzariFrankAug 2
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. —Arthur Miller—
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For thousands of years, people have assumed Homer calls Odysseus’ Ithaca was an island. He doesn’t. Two scholars have just published what I think is one of the most convincing arguments yet for the “true” location of Odysseus’ homeland. And in doing so, they may have overturned one of the oldest assumptions in classical scholarship. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/allanc…
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Given up on pretending to learn languages with apps. Gone back to books (I’ve had that text book for a painfully long time).
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Guess it’s over then.
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The founders of America were obsessed with the ancient Roman Republic. I knew that before I started writing my latest essay, but I found that they drew on it in more ways than I'd expected. During the struggle for independence, Rome provided: 1. Proof that a kingless state could win extraordinary power and glory (not assumed in the 18th century) 2. A repository of heroes to emulate. Men like Cato, Brutus, and Cincinnatus offered models of virtue rooted in republicanism. 3. A symbol of political liberty and a rallying cry to revolution. And once the war had been won, Rome became crucial to debates about how the United States should be governed. It offered: 4. An example of how different powers in a republic could be balanced. 5. Prior warning of the potential weak-points in a republican constitution. 6. A language and aesthetic of power that wasn't rooted in royal grandeur.
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