flynn

Lecturer in English @SPC_Oxford. Associate Editor @imagomundiijhc. Ex- Max Planck Hist. of Sci., @OOCDTP. sciolus.

[flynn @flynnoallott]

A new piece out on the history of: questionnaires, fossils, university examination, in /Annals of Science/. Q long!

[flynn @flynnoallott]

@zenahitz But the social endorsement of pederasty in ancient Greece, or the debates over what constituted philology in humanist universities aren't interesting, or don't produce learning? My objection is about what seems to me an arbitrary boundary. What about Aulus Gellius?

[flynn @flynnoallott]

One thing you might learn if you exercised some historical curiosity was that this protracted debate has already taken place, in 15th and 16th Century humanism, among many other places.

[Zena Hitz @zenahitz]

I'm serious! What is the answer to "why was Socrates a pedophile"? Is it "Among aristocratic Greeks of his time it was sometimes practiced"? What do we learn from such an answer. I say: nothing.

[flynn @flynnoallott]

@zenahitz Well, see the second tweet in the thread. My own view is that curiosity into the type of information you're elsewhere calling 'insanely boring' is a virtue that has always characterised higher education. Aristotle wrote the Historia animalium as well as the Metaphysics.

[flynn @flynnoallott]

No doubt the response to this is, 'well, what do we learn from that?' Not sure OP is as entitled to use the 'we' as liberally as she does.

[flynn @flynnoallott]

https://t.co/eiRFhunzJI

[flynn @flynnoallott]

Back again w/ this: link below.

[flynn @flynnoallott]

https://t.co/9oZiXqzu4l

[flynn @flynnoallott]

A new piece out on the history of: questionnaires, fossils, university examination, in /Annals of Science/. Q long!

[flynn @flynnoallott]

https://t.co/bHEFNbmOKl

[flynn @flynnoallott]

some more revues - link below

[flynn @flynnoallott]

Found within a second hand copy

[flynn @flynnoallott]

https://t.co/edUpsZRQCU

[flynn @flynnoallott]

Round 2 - very late on my own deadline, which doesn’t bode well

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[flynn @flynnoallott]

there's like 1000 guys called 'rob linguine' on here who love to get epic about lumbering, navel-gazing and effortful novels of 800+ pages, and that's just fine - keep fighting lads!

[flynn @flynnoallott]

Nyssa waxes Newtonian

[flynn @flynnoallott]

Proper heaving at the Dead man’s shoes bit

[Duhlorean @Duhlorean98]

Literally just this lmfaoooo

[flynn @flynnoallott]

Just occurred to me that all of her videos sound like the bridge to Under Your Spell by Desire

[Cristina Méndez @xstinamendez]

only for you

[flynn @flynnoallott]

Oxfam: 28 Pages of Elton on HVIII, nicely embossed copy of Rowse’s _England under Elizabeth_