Dana Contac

Lawyer. Harmsworth Scholar, Middle Temple (2017 & 2020). Unregistered barrister. Poetry addict. Views are my mum's.

[Dana Contac @DanaContac]

Saw the Isenheim Altarpiece (1512 - 1516) @Colmar_tourisme @MUnterlinden yesterday. It is so hauntingly beautiful that one feels like kneeling and sobbing. Photos @vaisamar.

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

Out tomorrow, folks!

[Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 @robert_lyman]

Every. Single.Time.
@MattCartoonist

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

Going to see the Odyssey? Here’s a 50 minute to what you need to know before you go https://t.co/oJGZh53L64

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

Ralph Waldo Emerson gives some gentle advice to his daughter...

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

James Clear on having high standards:

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

C. S. Lewis with maybe the most important paragraph ever written for people with creative ambitions

[Dana Contac @DanaContac]

@elonmusk do you also hire human rights lawyers? Asking for myself.

[Istra of Glome @byistra]

C.S. Lewis’ incredible observation on friendship

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

All these three Iranians have been hanged today. This is a campaign of terror and the world is watching like it’s just another Netflix series, waiting to see how many episodes it takes before anyone actually does something.

The Islamic Republic has executed three more men, Ebrahim Dolatabadi, Mehdi Rasouli, and Mohammadreza Miri.

After gunning down tens of thousands of protesters in the streets, the regime is now systematically executing those it once detained.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"He thought his happiness was complete when, as he meandered aimlessly along, suddenly he stood by the edge of a full-fed river. Never in his life had he seen a river before—this sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal, chasing and chuckling, gripping things with a gurgle and leaving them with a laugh, to fling itself on fresh playmates that shook themselves free, and were caught and held again. All was a-shake and a-shiver—glints and gleams and sparkles, rustle and swirl, chatter and bubble. The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spellbound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea."
~ Kenneth Grahame,
'The Wind in the Willows'

🔹️Illustration by E.H. Shepard 🔹️

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

In 1962, C.S. Lewis was asked to name the books that most influenced his life philosophy.

The list he came up had many classics, but also some lesser known gems. Here’s his list:

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

This is harrowing and heartbreaking. Iranian protesters sing before they are hanged

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

Tolkien

a lesson for us all

[Istra of Glome @byistra]

J.R.R. Tolkien, there is a place called heave

[C.P. Cavafy @CCavafy]

“When he saw the suitcase he was overcome with tears.”

– Robert Liddell recounts the day Cavafy, during his final illness, leaves his home to enter the hospital.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

mandatory Ursula K. Le Guin quote

[Dominic Sandbrook @dcsandbrook]

This is a BRILLIANT book.

[love drops @lovedropx]

— Brad Montague

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

This quote has been stuck in my head for hours