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Read a book (Listen to an Audiobook) Reading benefits the reader. Listening benefits the listener. A Library Joined September 2021

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Times Politics @timespolitics

4 days ago

Revealed: how public servants are taught not to treat everyone the same thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

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Tombstones with Unusual Fonts @UnusualGraves

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze

6 days ago

This is the single greatest paragraph in American literature. It comes at the close of chapter 93 of Moby-Dick. Young Pip, a Black cabin-boy, beloved by the crew of the Pequod, is inadvertently stranded alone on the open sea. The experience of being lost for hours in the middle of those “heartless immensities” drives the boy to insanity. But in that madness, Melville argues here, is a kind of wisdom. Pip had a vision of the inner workings of all things, and it drove him mad. On the first day of my final year in college, my literature professor, Dr. Gaines, asked each of us to name a favorite work of art: song, book, film, it didn’t matter. When my turn came round, I opened a copy of Moby-Dick that I happened to have brought with me and read this passage aloud. By the time I had finished reading, Dr. Gaines was in tears. He said, “Class dismissed.” In all the years I knew him, he could never get through this paragraph. It haunted him. It haunts me.

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DonPJenn @DonPJenn

7 days ago

One of the most captivating first paragraphs in the whole of literature:

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Things From the Past @pastarchive

6 days ago

Chloë Sevigny, New York, 90s. 📷 Tim Barber

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Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn

2 weeks ago

In the grounds of Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire, a large, mature Horse Chestnut tree with a textured trunk that divides into broad branches overhead and forms a leafy canopy, with sunlight filtering through its leaves 🍃 #TreeTuesday #TreeTrunkTuesday #ThickTrunkTuesday

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Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn

2 weeks ago

England's Rose® by David Austin, with its delicately ruffled vibrant pink petals that are paler towards the outer edge, seen recently at National Trust's Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire🩷 #RoseWednesday #BloomScrolling

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Tom Holland @holland_tom

2 weeks ago

Continuing our series on 1915, today on @TheRestHistory we are out at sea, steaming across the Atlantic with THE LUSITANIA. How & why did an ocean liner come to be sunk by a German U-boat - and as it really carrying contraband explosives? linktr.ee/restishistory

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Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn

3 weeks ago

For #WildflowerHour some #TinyPlants with #TinyFlowers seen in Cambridgeshire: Corn Speedwell, Sticky Mouse-ear, Ivy-leaved Speedwell Hairy Bittercress, Cut-leaved Crane's-bill, Shepherd's Purse Common Cornsalad, Cleavers, Ivy-leaved Toadflax @wildflowerhour @bsbibotany

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Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn

3 weeks ago

Wood Avens, Geum urbanum (Herb Bennet), seen this week in Cambridgeshire 💛 #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour @bsbibotany

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Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn

3 weeks ago

Some 'not so tiny' wildflowers seen this week: Cuckoo Flower, Deadly Nightshade, Greater Periwinkle, Oxeye Daisy, Red Clover, Hedgerow Crane's-bill, Perennial Flax, Smooth Sow-thistle, Germander Speedwell, Three-cornered Leek #WildflowerHour @wildflower_hour @BSBIbotany

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FarmingUK @FarmingUK

3 weeks ago

If this doesn't make you smile, nothing will! 😁 📸 Ryan Green

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Airfix @Airfix

3 weeks ago

In this Workbench podcast, we explore the mighty warships of the two World Wars — awe-inspiring leviathans of the sea that combined immense firepower with crews numbering in the hundreds or even thousands. From cruisers to battleships, these iconic vessels remain...

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Garden Brocante @GardenBrocante

3 weeks ago

Pretty jar arrangements just collected 🌸💐

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Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn

4 weeks ago

Looking for wildflowers in @cubotanicgarden & met a rather tame #fox which easily retrieved its hidden slice of bread, sniffed it but then threw it aside & set off in search of something more appetising presumably! 🦊 #WildlifeWednesday #WednesdayWildlife #UKWildlife #foxFriday

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty

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Melancholia 1539 Sebald Beham (British Museum)

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marysocontrary @so_contrary

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Jean Souverbie Nature morte aux bleuets (1947)

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Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn

4 weeks ago

A small black Tachinid fly visiting a Bramble flower, a significant source of nectar and pollen #WildWebsWednesday #WildFlowers #InsectThursday

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Physics In History @PhysInHistory

4 weeks ago

You don't like it? Go somewhere else! as said by Richard Feynman in one of his lectures at University of Auckland. ✍️

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Akiyoshi Kitaoka @AkiyoshiKitaoka

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斜線の交点に13個の白いドットがあるが、一度に全部は見えない。（マカナニー型の消失錯視） McAnany, J. J., & Levine, M. W. (2002). The vanishing disk; a revealing quirk of the scintillating grid illusion [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 2(7), 204a.