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Medievalists—what grail quest text is the best grail quest?

Had a rare part-day off work. Read Heaney’s Beowulf and then went to a church dedicated to a saint that resurrected an unjustly eaten goose at the request of his goose-brethren. Stained glass geese were 💯

Sending a person academic articles relevant to their current research is a love-language.

A fascinating article on Yiddish Arthuriana jewishstudies.washington.edu/jewish-history…

Thrifted a frame for this sublime art by Grandpas Swamp

Boze the Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ i'm grimly amused by the fact that so many of the AI gurus (that aren't just MBA hucksters) are clearly informed re: their creation by techno-pessimist scifi, and nevertheless use their creation to happily obliterate what is arguably a prime manifestation of techno-optimism.

I can neither confirm nor deny whether I cackled like a little book-goblin and whispered “hello my pretties” when this parcel arrived just now

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Maybe it's not that autistic people can struggle with sarcasm per se, but that non-autistic people say so many objectively absurd and untrue things that a sarcastic comment doesn't easily differentiate itself.

Was waiting for the ‘then drown him!’ But I guess it’s implied

Offering pregnant women...toasted rhubarb? From the History of Physick, 1726. 'Above all he John of Gaddesden understood the sweets of being concern'd in the eases of pregnant Women; he recommends toasted rhubarb to them.'

Told my brain to buckle up and write up a research proposal on internment camps and it literally did this?! There once was a girl from Perahhh Who was traveling on her gap yahhh She adopted a tom , now just like its mom Instead of mew it says myaaaahhh

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English is full of “lexical gaps,” words that are implied to exist but don’t, because we borrowed a bunch of words from Latin but not other, related words. Somebody made a chart to show it↓

What is a fox fable?? I’m so intrigued

I just finished reading an obscure 13th-century Arthurian text in which Lancelot is Jewish and the holy grail is a soup-kitchen charity dish.🤯

Based on this review by DA Binchy, it's probably *fortunate* they were dead before their book came out