Conor Farrington (@conorfarrington) 's Twitter Profile
Conor Farrington

@conorfarrington

Novelist in Cambridge. THE MAIDEN FAUST (female-led, dark academia legend retelling) out in June @galileobooks. Previously, Russian novels with @littlebrown.

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Dr Anna Wilmore (@seatofwisdomopn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Happy Feast of St Hildegard of Bingen! As I child, I didn't know I would grow up to be a German medievalist, but I was captivated by her story and by the fact she appeared in both my book of Saints' lives and my book on composers (one of only a few women in it).

Happy Feast of St Hildegard of Bingen! As I child, I didn't know I would grow up to be a German medievalist, but I was captivated by her story and by the fact she appeared in both my book of Saints' lives and my book on composers (one of only a few women in it).
Conor Farrington (@conorfarrington) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It's pretty special to drink coffee in the same cafe as Goethe, Byron and Liszt! (though they did charge me thirty euros extra because they had a mini orchestra playing)

Zara Handley (@zarahandley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I took the photo of these medieval steps so many times but never used it. At last it was open to public and it was a pleasure to walk up on these worn out ancient steps that has seen so many lives to go through it. Browne’s hospital (1475) Stamford

I took the photo of these medieval steps so many times but never used it. At last it was open to public and it was a pleasure to walk up on these worn out ancient steps that has seen so many lives to go through it. 

Browne’s hospital (1475) Stamford
Barnaby Taylor (@miserabiliter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In 1368 Petrarch and Chaucer were guests at the same wedding - that of the 13-year old Violante Visconti to Lionel Duke of Clarence. No record of whether they spoke to each other.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (@seplibrary) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Of course that’s your contention. You ‘discovered’ Nietzsche because some TikTok said ‘God is dead.’ You just skimmed your first excerpt from Beyond Good and Evil. You’re convinced he’s the deepest thinker alive until next month when you stumble onto Kierkegaard memes.”

“Of course that’s your contention. You ‘discovered’ Nietzsche because some TikTok said ‘God is dead.’ You just skimmed your first excerpt from Beyond Good and Evil. You’re convinced he’s the deepest thinker alive until next month when you stumble onto Kierkegaard memes.”
Paul Heron (@paul_heron_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Whoever wrote that sounds absolutely insufferable. Uptight, no humility, absolutely closed to the possibility of being seduced (in Baudrillard’s sense). When approaching these old works I think you have to be a bit like how Baudrillard defines the schizophrenic: extremely open

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A life mask of Franz Liszt taken by Bartolini in 1838, and the resulting bust now on display in Weimar. "In Liszt I found a thin, pale-looking young man, with infinitively attractive features." Wilhelm von Lenz

A life mask of Franz Liszt taken by Bartolini in 1838, and the resulting bust now on display in Weimar.

"In Liszt I found a thin, pale-looking young man, with infinitively attractive features."

Wilhelm von Lenz