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Sir Gawain Fucks the Green Knight Here’s a tale ripe for telling. Can’t say where I heard it first—in pretty French or Dutch. Perhaps as a young lady walking ‘longside the Rijn. I’ll spin it for you in an English tongue, fine as frost on lace, sweet as malmsey wine. So it goes that young Gawain, strength kissed into his limbs, fresh as the bright dawn, comes trembling down to the Green Chapel. You’ve heard this tale, I know. His breath makes peach fuzz in the air, fear into him like worm to apple. Christmas Morn is too soon, time is short. You have your own life to save, he says, picking through thorn and bough to an ivy-clad cave. The creature is the Jack O’ the Glen / forest prince / the wood’s own laughter. Beard of lichen and eyes like dark elder. I need not repeat their exchange—my boy’s flinching heart—a songbird in a rattled cage. It is after the blows are dealt, he asks, what god is worshipped in these green trees? Boy, the Knight replies, boy, were you not just down on your knees? The Knight is the tang of sap / bark rough and petal soft / everywhere leaves scatter / easily crushed / Gawain clings / hardly knows what he clings to / he is the forest and the flower / a turmoil of roots / where god and tree meet and melt / the birch the oak the fern the deer / mushroom maggot crow / here Gawain is branch and bud / blow returned for blow

This is a sheer indulgence on my part, but it turns out I never actually shared the poem here, so:

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Pretty sure it's not - neither that nor the preceding edition have the unusual entry numbers in the adjoining column. Likely to be a derivative dictionary, as there are more entries on the fragment than in Huloet but the overlap is very similar.

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OMG congrats but also does that really say "Foreword by CONNIE WILLIS"?! The Oxford time travel author?!

Oh fun. Will still personally verify when I'm not on my phone, because librarian, but plausible.

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I cannot stress enough how good this book was, nor how important to read.

Section 28 was monstrous. I don't think the post-millennial queer gang, who didn't grow up with its bullshit permeating their lives, realise just how bad it was.

The State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, and I would take "Landscape with five houses' by Malevich.

It looks very meh in photos, but I saw it in person when it was in London for an exhibition and was moved to tears. It's transfixing.

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There are people who... DON'T dream of Tetris blocks slotting into place?

Oh no. Oh Pete. A beloved friend and colleague. I will miss him.

Prospective visitors: Tell us what we are going to see when your exhibition opens!

Me: Bold of you to assume I have the faintest idea.

"stout vellum" I am DED

That is horrifyingly underpaid for what it is, without even factoring in the cost of London. Especially since one presumes the salary INCLUDES London weighting.

"He gazes across a flower-filled front garden and green picket fence onto the Parade, where a smartly dressed nanny escorts a little girl in pinafore and straw hat, and beyond them to the yachts and steamboat gathered at the pier."

Sarah's bedroom in the movie Labyrinth is one of the best examples of set design as environmental storytelling and foreshadowing/backstory in the history of cinema. Everyone knows it is filled with things that you see later in the film, but there's even more that you don't notice at a glance.

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Well this looks excellent! Having traumatised myself with an element of work I was doing with records, I'm now VERY conscious of the risk to myself and others when dealing with these materials. Sadly I have a meeting clash for this, but you should all book!

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Oh man. If this ever makes it to PlayStation, I'll be there with bells on. It looks awesome.

They're probably roommates, let's be honest.

The goodest boy. What legends. <3

I will defend with my last breath the value of fanfiction, and it's because of stories like this one.

I don't think I've ever seen a photo of him before and am delighted to learn what he looked like.

Last time I went to Scotland for work, the return train journey (off-peak with railcard) between Cambridge and Stansted was more expensive than the return flight.

Oh look, another rabbit-hole to go down.

Starting another playthrough of the Mass Effect trilogy in 3... 2...

This is a thing of beauty.

Which makes total sense. A gore is a triangular fabric insert used to widen clothing (think twirly skirts without bulk at the waist), and this is a triangle inserted to widen the road.