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Thomas Mann, Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1929. A black-and-white portrait photograph of Thomas Mann in three-quarter view, his right hand raised to his temple in a thoughtful pose. He has neatly combed dark hair, a short moustache, and deep-set eyes with a serious, somewhat intense expression. He wears a dark jacket, white shirt, and tie. A ring is visible on his finger. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann#/media/Datei:Thomas_Mann_1929.jpg

In the Film Death in Venice, Music Is the Narrator

A haunting score shapes the rise and fall of a writer consumed by infatuation.

By: Angelica Frey

daily.jstor.org/in-the-film-...

Death in Venice at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66073

#books #literature #movie #music

Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity.

Utilities are convincing lawmakers around the U.S. to delay bills that would allow people to buy solar panels, plug them into an outlet and begin generating electricity. n.pr/4ul3y2p

The economic position of women Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.

Women’s Economic Lives & Women economy at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68759
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57913

#books #literature #womenhistoryMonth

Cover image of the book Women and Economics by Charlotte Perkins Gilman A plain dark burgundy cloth book cover with centred text in gold or cream lettering reading: Women and Economics / A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution / By Charlotte Perkins Stetson. No illustration or decoration, just typography on a solid ground. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/57913/pg57913-images.html

How Women Researchers Changed Our Understanding of Women’s Economic Lives

by Rachel F. Seidman

www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smiths...

#books #literature #womenhistoryMonth

Madi Diaz: Tiny Desk Concert Few artists can completely dismantle your heart, fill it with wonder and awe at the miracle of life, and put it back together quite like Madi Diaz.

Few artists can completely dismantle your heart, fill it with wonder and awe at the miracle of life, and put it back together quite like Madi Diaz. n.pr/4sJGE36

Toad's mailbox awaits...something. From "The Letter" In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

Every day my mailbox is empty.

Wait who is this? OH, Nazi Tattoo Guy

Lol oh no, who's the artist?

A victorian style banknote which reads: Mercantile Bank of the Bazaar. I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of One Echo for the Masters of the Echo Bazaar. 1888 April 6 London April 6 1888. Signed by 'Chimes' and stamped with a carnivorous hat.

why mess with perfection

Stefan Collini · Capital Brandy: Eliot on the Run For much of the second half of his life, T.S. Eliot was a man on the run, retreating to actual or symbolic boltholes,...

‘T.S. Eliot was a man on the run, retreating to actual or symbolic boltholes, wearing a succession of masks, relying on routine to help him escape detection – even, it sometimes seemed, detection by himself.’

Stefan Collini on Eliot’s letters.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Yay! I love these.

You've got @gavininglis.bsky.social to thank for this caper!

A little-known virus is spreading in Northern California. Here's what to know Human metapneumovirus, a little-known respiratory virus, is circulating in Northern California as flu and COVID cases decline.

cool cool cool cool cool

i think my wife caught this four weeks ago, she's still not 100%

It's N95 Mask time. It's carry hand sanitizer time. It's social distancing time.

Please keep yourselves safe.

Brooklyn Museum Exterior, 2013. A view from the building's right front with a fountain in front of it.

Visiting every museum in New York City

A Q&A with Jane August, a content creator on a quest

www.atlasobscura.com/articles/vis...

#museums #travel

Brooklyn Museum

How the bridge towers were originally meant to look

Brooklyn Eagle

March 12, 1926: The Port Authority of New York approves a plan to build a bridge across the Hudson River linking New York City and New Jersey. Its 3,500-ft. suspension span would be the longest in the world, more than twice that of the now-longest bridge. 1/2

Caw! Caw! or The Chronicle of Crows (ca. 1848) - A story of a group of crows attacked by a farmer, beautifully illustrated by the Scottish artist Jemima Blackburn: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/caw-caw-or-the-chronicle-of-crows-ca-1848

'Songs from the Hole': The story behind JJ'88's documentary and visual album The visual album and documentary Songs from the Hole tells the story of James Jacobs, the hip-hop artist JJ'88, as he reflects on his coming-of-age within California's state prison system.

The visual album and documentary Songs from the Hole tells the story of James Jacobs, the hip-hop artist JJ'88, as he reflects on his coming-of-age within California's state prison system. n.pr/3NtO4s9

Depending on your perspective, A Prison, A Paradise, by Loran Hurnscot (Gay Taylor) (1958), is either one remarkable book or two under one cover: one, an account of mad love pursued about twenty exits past reason, the other, a spiritual memoir worthy of medieval mystics.
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"At the age of thirty-five, Robert Moses had power." Ok now I think I'm caught up to where @jacobaugust.bsky.social is

Moses really lying his ass off about the proposed parks to absolutely everybody

"He wanted forty thousand acres of parks." Mercy

"'Parks' was a word like 'motherhood.' It was just something nobody could be against."

Public parks!

"_everyone_ was for parks"

Did not realize Julius Caesar has a passage about public parks

The Woolworth mansion was sixty-two rooms, with solid gold bathroom fixtures and doorknobs and "a dining-room ceiling gilded with fifteen hundred square feet of fourteen-carat gold."

....he sees Moses as heroic for the first FOUR HUNDRED PAGES? damn

Mine is 1200 up to the Notes

Apparently ebooking this volume was quite the endeavor

"For it was to Long Island that the robber barons had retired to enjoy their plunder." Gatsbyyyyy

Oh Christ how many pp is that?

I can't do long paperbacks anymore -- they're too heavy and the print has shrunk. It's a bummer.

not the theoretical, Political Science course, version of power, but the reality of power, its true essence."