tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35637852024-02-19T06:57:42.670-05:00The Hermetic CopybookCompelling passages from current readingsRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.comBlogger250125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-22809982512825235892019-04-06T18:30:00.000-04:002019-04-06T18:30:07.187-04:00
“It was essentially a club of lesbian perverts. The whole idea was to have meetings, share information, flirt with each other, and throw parties. Mostly it was leather dykes, a few bisexuals, a few fetishists. We had some really butch girls. Half of them were pre-op: they were planning to change genders. But what happened was they came to the meetings—we had all these high-femme, sweet pieces ofRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-72192622770751444592019-02-07T19:17:00.000-05:002019-02-07T19:17:25.269-05:00
Bodies, of course, were divisible and those of some saints were infinitely divided. The proliferation of relics made private collections possible. Collectors did not have to go to the saints, they had them permanently in their possession. Among the treasure of Hubert’s wife, sister of the king of Scotland, was a silver cross, double gilt, in which were set rubies, emeralds and relics. Bishop Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-23183371912171439882018-06-04T23:10:00.000-04:002018-06-04T23:10:40.261-04:00
Edward's own behavior caused a threat to his new-found stability by his clandestine marriage in 1464 to Elizabeth Woodville Lady Grey, the widow of Sir John Grey, son of Lord Ferrers of Groby, who had died at the second battle of St. Albans in 1461. The marriage to this mother of two sons was a match which brought neither fortune nor diplomatic advantage. It was even politically injurious, sinceRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-33085060457192787812018-05-14T23:13:00.000-04:002018-05-14T23:13:04.449-04:00
The Kalender of Shepherdes is of particular importance because it establishes the assimilation into popular culture, by commercial publishers for a mass audience, of the official educational programme of the Church. It was once again a commercial speculation, emphatically a lay book. The success of that assimilation is of course a moot point: many clergy would have been disturbed by the placing Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-41635985911244676312018-05-09T23:28:00.000-04:002018-05-09T23:28:57.783-04:00
Gengoroh Tagame, My Brother's Husband: Volume 1 (50)
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On the simplest level the molly houses offered a relatively safe way of making sexual contacts, far safer than engaging someone in conversation at a dissenting meeting-house, or at work or in the streets. But they also offered something more. Firstly, sexual contacts or not, you were no longer alone. And this meant more than friendship, although no doubt that was important; what it gave the Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-32896337977037956492014-12-31T01:13:00.002-05:002014-12-31T01:13:21.404-05:00
There are so many homosexuals in clothing design, hair dressing, interior decoration, art, music, ballet, acting, TV producing, newspaper and magazine work, writing, education, and other similar vocations because those fields usually require people with a predominantly (or at least secondary) Melancholy temperament. And as we have seen, some people with a Melancholy temperament have a greater Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-37289084402441481992014-12-31T00:27:00.002-05:002014-12-31T00:27:18.473-05:00
The need for 25,550 trials was clearly an obstacle. Even if, as James Newman has suggested, Jacob Bernoulli had been willing to settle for the "immoral certainty" of an even bet—probability of 50/100—that the result would be within 2% of the true ratio of 3:2, 8,400 drawings would be needed. Jacob's selection of a probability of 1000/1001 is in itself a curiosity by today's standards, when most Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-1588792180317250422014-12-31T00:12:00.002-05:002014-12-31T00:12:15.084-05:00
The anger passed after a moment's reflection. At the time of the deed, blueprints had probably been as common as weeds, and the owner of the box the probable culprit. He shielded the print from the sun with his own shadow while trying to unfold it further. In the lower right-hand corner was a printed rectangle containing, in simple block letters, various titles, dates, "patent numbers," Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-74294503622827820162014-12-30T23:57:00.003-05:002014-12-30T23:57:41.410-05:00
"Central heating" in Britain usually refers to one or two radiators in a hallway or in the living room. They are sometimes fed from the hot water system. Sometimes there is a hot water coil in the coal stove in the kitchen which heats a radiator or two. This is for "background heating", which means it will prevent water from freezing in the wash bowls. Temperatures away from open fires will Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-3211177008668608392014-12-30T23:48:00.000-05:002014-12-30T23:49:12.819-05:00
Rococo architects transcended the Baroque insistence on monumental form and therefore spaces defined by the structure. Full of flowing curves, complex geometry and dense ornament, Rococo spaces, such as Johann Michael Fischer's Ottobeuren Abbey in Bavaria, see architectural structure dominated by the exigencies of surface.
Owen Hopkins, Architectural Styles: A Visual Guide (93)
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Toward the end of the Book of Revelation, the author describes two visions of things to come: one is a vision of heaven in which there are "flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a violent earthquake" (16:18), and the other is a vision of the earth in which God will dwell and will "wipe away every tear" from the human eyes (21:3-4). In the biblical vision, God is the unknown and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-40478918282170947082014-12-30T23:14:00.002-05:002014-12-30T23:14:38.860-05:00
He closed his eyes, and my far hand gripped the bottle again, upside down, thumb extended to support my lifting it if it had to, as he recited: "I know the backs of her knees. I know the shape of her elbows. She used to eat tomatoes off the vine. She stole them in season and bit into them like apples. She climbed trees like us boys. She wore the same yellow bathing suit for years. A one-piece. Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-88585162587306433582014-12-30T22:59:00.002-05:002014-12-30T22:59:18.865-05:00
A queer, queer fellow was this Ned McLean that I had married. The simplest way to make him comprehensible is to show that he was just about a dozen men packaged as one jealous husband. He was so changeable that at times I felt quite polyandrous. We spent some weeks at Bar Harbor with all four of our parents beaming on us. Then, so we could be alone, we went back to Washington and stayed at Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-77312090917363461502014-12-30T22:42:00.001-05:002014-12-30T22:42:18.844-05:00
When the two islands finally made contact with one another, they instantly developed a robust trade in bongos and tanning oil. Each island used its competitive advantage to send the other island products that were more valuable overseas than they were at home. In this symbiotic arrangement, both islands benefited. Living standards rose...and well-toned drumming was achieved by all.
Peter D. Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-19883004816433828422014-12-30T22:30:00.000-05:002014-12-30T22:30:46.759-05:00
However, by 1973, they were around 40, confident, owned their own restaurants, and were ready for fame. They could have done without the name of the fame – most don't like 'nouvelle cuisine' and talk about 'cuisine moderne' or something. But the fame itself was very acceptable. Guérard, Vergé, and the two Troisgros set about writing books about their methods which made them even more famous.
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The removal of the pump handle was a historical turning point, and not just because it marked the end of London's most explosive outbreak. History has its epic thresholds where the world is transformed in a matter of minutes—a leader is assassinated, a volcano erupts, a constitution is ratified. But there are other, smaller, turning points that are no less important. A hundred disparate Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-56317432618190616562014-02-24T00:45:00.002-05:002014-02-24T00:45:53.155-05:00
I entered the stands for the visiting supporters and ended up following a skinhead—big and brawny—with a tight-fitting white T-shirt and fleshy biceps. His name, I would learn, was Cliff, which—sheer, unadorned, vaguely suggestive of danger—seemed entirely appropriate. The skinhead phase had long passed and, even here, in this crowd, Cliff stood out as a nostalgic anomaly, but Cliff had such anRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-65151238711223777852014-01-07T04:59:00.000-05:002014-01-07T04:59:24.973-05:00
During 1940 and 1941, Uniontown held a Turkey Carnival. Evidently many farmers in the area raised turkeys, and this was a way of promoting their sale. Pictured in the convertible are a king and queen of the activities. The building may have stood on the northeast corner of U.S. Highway 80 and Water Street. The building is no longer standing. (Courtesy of the author).
Eleanor C. Drake, Images ofRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-49059289447054237662014-01-05T21:57:00.000-05:002014-01-05T21:57:10.930-05:00
Olney was a man given to resentments; he nurtured and tended to them. When Beard asked him, a little over a year later, to give private cooking lessons to his longtime partner, Gino Cofacci, Olney readily agreed, while privately bemoaning Beard's "selfishness and willingness to use friends." As the same time, Olney was making good use of Beard's connections and knowledge as he arranged to teach Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-86447701434620926832013-09-29T23:06:00.001-04:002014-01-05T21:57:02.192-05:00
"You can say that again. Something has finally dawned on me, Sally. We should have picked our own cotton." Honey waited while Sally laughed. "All right, give me the list," she said, "and I'll start calling. I'll get somebody here to help me."
Mary Ward Brown, "Let Him Live," from Tongues of Flame (124-25)
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I almost broke my back leaning over to
pull my socks on. No way in hell I was going to attempt to get the
underpants on. I'd go commando and take excruciating care with the
zipper. The shirt was easy enough, but the main event was obviously
going to be my pants. I awkwardly wrestled my feet through the pants
legs, scrunching the thing down, and then lay back on the bed. I was
suddenly reminded Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-35210062195404896772013-04-28T19:55:00.000-04:002014-02-25T02:22:31.999-05:00
One member of the house party was John Phillips, the songwriter and leader of the American group, The Mamas and the Papas, who told Colin about a long-sleeved T-shirt printed to look like a dinner jacket, complete with a black bow tie and white carnation. For Colin it was a must-have item. Frantic calls to Los Angeles followed and a dozen were air-freighted overnight, picked up at Heathrow and Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-65959830453673325172013-04-09T22:37:00.001-04:002013-04-09T22:37:51.339-04:00
Another group that was overwhelmingly supportive of Italian fascism was American big business, which praised Mussolini for bringing order and stability to the Italian economy. The president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Julian Barnes, repeatedly declared in speeches and magazine articles that "Mussolini is without question a great man." James Emery of the National Association of ManufacturersRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563785.post-75146925388175131452012-10-29T00:04:00.001-04:002012-10-29T00:07:31.341-04:00
We learn from the prologue to this rare and charming little volume how true and genuine a bibliomaniac was Richard de Bury, for he tells us there, that a vehement love amor excitet of books had so powerfully seized all the faculties of his mind, that dismissing all other avocations, he had applied the ardor of his thoughts to the acquisition of books. Expense to him was quite an afterthought, Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05926588238807918767noreply@blogger.com0