#Classics

Winter Wonder Dan

soundingline

So if we're talking about classics and whether you can make kids love them? I've been doing this for fifteen years and I don't think I've ever MADE a kid

saliltripathi

saliltripathi

As today is gurupurnima, thread on teachers from whom I have learnt much over the years. School? Khandubhai who taught me by telling me stories at Montessori; Yashodhara Mehta and

Lili Saintcrow

lilithsaintcrow

“…they feel an affinity for him because he allowed all of the rank and indolent stupidity of pure masculinity a free expression which it has not had for decades.”https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2021/02/02/homerica-first/ The

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan

raginits

My PhD advisor used to write "you wouldn't say that to Gayatri Spivak" in the margins of my diss. She was right. And I wouldn't say any of this to

ᵐˣ. ᶦⁿᵍʳᶦᵈ

MagpieLibrarian

Furious about banned books+censorship of children's lit? Mad as hell when children can't access the titles they want to read? Me too. Read these books, buy them, recommend them. But

Sportula Europe

SportulaEurope

Today we'd like to talk about some of our side projects over the last six months. Although our primary focus is and always will be using donations to provide microgrants

sententiae antiquae

sentantiq

on #BurningItDownWhen you were young you bought your dream house. It was an old, sprawling victorian. It needed work, but you loved the neighborhood and really thought you could restore

loni

RETROGRADETYLER

tyler joseph’s arms, a thread the classics flexing sorry for the dump

Alicia E. Stallings

ae_stallings

I am sick at heart over attacks on our essential United States Postal Service. But it has put me in mind of the wonderful unofficial motto: "Neither snow nor rain

Stephen Carty

TheNakedPun

The Different Types Of Bond Fan: A Thread1. CONNERY PURISTSAccording to these fans, Connery is The One True Bond. They believe that the series peaked in the ‘60s (“It was

24/7 mechaposting 8'3'' 999 IQ

GundamNoContext

Ornate mecha goes hard because mecha is essentially a sci-fi way to reintroduce legendary warriors to the battlefield. It's a vehicle to bring back the type of fighting men immortalized

Le

EatMoreEggroll

A short thread about Ryomen Sukuna, and why I have mixed feelings about him... Yeah. He's fucking cool. This man oozes cool bad-guy juju. But everything he does reminds me

Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul

SonjaCherryPaul

1/6 Cowards swim in the sea of intentional ignorance and ingest the water willfully. They are the “anti-intellectuals’ they claim others to be. And they reveal themselves when the racist

Adam Morgan

adamm0rgan

Ready for the story of how Trump's Department of Justice killed a 117-year-old literary Christmas tradition? In 1903, T.E. Donnelly — the publisher of Chicago's Lakeside Press — wanted to

Erin L. Thompson

artcrimeprof

Classics For All... or Looting For All? A deep-dive on an ongoing charity auction to benefit @classicsforall... which will give substantial tax benefits to Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza's Kallos Gallery for

Laura Ingallinella

lauraingalli

My latest article is out! It discusses a *huge* encyclopedia of saints (Catalogo de li santi) made in Naples around 1485, now partially preserved in this pretty manuscript from @HoughtonLib.

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