Harry Sword

Writer. Monolithic Undertow. Enthusiast. @WhiteRabbitBks @orionbooks Agent @natgalustian

[Harry Sword @HarrySword]

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[Harry Sword @HarrySword]

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[Heathcliff @Lord_Thornton]

Always thought it was funny that D. H. Lawrence, despite writing beautiful and sensual novels, has a face better suited to asking for cigs outside a Nottingham Wetherspoons or making risky Stop the Boats posts.

[Harry Sword @HarrySword]

100% this.

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

The big wrong turn, as I see it, was the vast cultural and spiritual shift that came of defining ourselves by our pasts, our injuries, instead of by our destinies, our potentials. The idea became to repair, repair, not to prepare and strive.

Therapy overtook destiny.

"Don't look back."

An ancient warning, ignored.

But we are not the sum of what's happened to us, as individuals or groups; we are the carriers of what is possible for us -- as we divine it and go out to meet it.

Instead of obsessing on its own roots a tree should grow toward the sun.

[Vinnie Sullivan @VinnieSull1van]

Accents: Cornish 🗣

Good luck with this one. The Cornish accent (also known as Anglo-Cornish or Cornu-English) developed between the 1300s and 1750s as native speakers of the Celtic Cornish language (Kernewek) gradually shifted to speaking English.

The Cornish ethnic identity is rooted in the region's Celtic-Brythonic heritage, historical separation from Anglo-Saxon England, and the shift from the indigenous Cornish language (Kernewek) to what we now call "English."

The accent preserves unique grammatical forms—such as periphrastic do (e.g., "he d'go")—alongside loanwords and mining/maritime slang inherited from Cornish or Middle French (such as "dreckly" for "soon/later" or "croust" for a snack).

[Chelsea Dan @ChelseaDan5]

In a sacrilegious act against London Pubs The Warrington Hotel Maida Vale W9 is cirrengly closed and having a refurb with what looks like the old carpets and seating piled up and disregarded outside,Tragic as it was one of the most magnificent Pub interiors in the city🍻🍻🍻

[Christian Ashton @christiansufc]

Bloke walked less than 4 miles a day. I've walked further just to go to the pub. He's not a hero. He left his family for 28 years! He's a prick.

[Harry Sword @HarrySword]

Cambridge backstreets

[Harry Sword @HarrySword]

@_andrewkerr_ I knew someone at university called Josh who was given the absurd nickname ‘lamb rogan’.

[Harry Sword @HarrySword]

@skulthorp It’s a funny thing. The ‘recent literary memory’……’I once read books’…yes but that was now 30 years ago. But the literary identity remains *central*. It’s scary/odd stuff and we’ve not remotely dealt with it. Use it or *lose it*

[Harry Sword @HarrySword]

@skulthorp These people probably knew people who read The Telegraph every morning. These people probably do not read at all.

[Harry Sword @HarrySword]

@Britains___Pubs @BygoneBritain Lovely stuff. I’m Cambridge born and bred. Same as Oxford, people/tourists are sometimes shocked that there is a ‘town’ as well as ‘gown’. Cheers 🍻

[Britain's Lost & Living Pubs @Britains___Pubs]

A wholesome pub conversation in the old #fen accent.

The Fen accent is a distinct regional variety of East Anglian English spoken in the marshlands and flatlands of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Lincolnshire. It developed from a mix of Northern and Southern English dialects, old Norse, and Dutch influences, shaped heavily by the historic isolation of the Fenland communities.

They don't make them like they used to.. 🍻

[Katja Hoyer @hoyer_kat]

I often hear that traditional German cuisine is dying out. Being a historian, I feel it's my responsibility to help preserve the country's cultural heritage as best I can...

[Fred Sculthorp @skulthorp]

The new powers of the Mate Mate State empowered by a generation of nasty thickos using AI is going to unleash cultural revolution levels of petty malovelence

[tones! @tonestirade]

“Zack Snyder.. Christopher Smith.. who the fuck are these people?”
Abel Ferrara Video Club vid off to a great start

[john sturgis @sturgios]

Tonight’s film - completely mad. 1972.

[Harry Sword @HarrySword]

@MaxTundra Indeed- loved it

[Harry Sword @HarrySword]

I wasn’t familiar with this series. Had to pick them up. Will report back.

[Harry Sword @HarrySword]

@sturgios A *plate*

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Anything can happen when no one can share news of what's happening. And anything can be said about it later.

[Harry Sword @HarrySword]

@will_ainsley Superb. I could watch him for eighty hours and still want more.