Marcus Speh

Wrighter ånd ☧röfessør

[Marcus Speh @marcus_speh]

"The Lonely Robot" - inspired by @NASAPersevere #Perseverance https://t.co/zQzP5nLfV4

[Marcus Speh @marcus_speh]

5 of 5 stars to The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett https://t.co/8gLdAueroM

[Marcus Speh @marcus_speh]

Happy New Year! All the best! Bless you all wherever you are!

[Marcus Speh @marcus_speh]

1 of 5 stars to My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood https://t.co/KNqkcLrx87

[Marcus Speh @marcus_speh]

5 of 5 stars to Vorsatz zur Luxusausgabe von »Herr un... by Thomas Mann https://t.co/aEG7eDTTE4

[Marcus Speh @marcus_speh]

Happy New Year! All the best! Bless you all wherever you are!

[Marcus Birkenkrahe @birkenkrahe]

Beautiful #Gregorian chant to St. #Joseph - »Joseph fili David, noli timere accipere Mariam conjugem tuam: quod enim in ea natum est de Spiritu Sancto est« (Mt 1,20) https://t.co/hBKByjpZpr ☧ @CatholicPolyU @johnjtran

[Marcus Birkenkrahe @birkenkrahe]

»der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland sein Auge ist blau / er trifft dich mit bleierner Kugel er trifft dich genau«

[Marcus Birkenkrahe @birkenkrahe]

»[That] rather stiff and sombre music, with its reserve, its pride, its vast and implacable integrity, how it is better to be good than bad, how loyalty is good and honesty and courage.« Virginia Woolf on Joseph Conrad (1914) https://t.co/OHP54qwwtt

[Marcus Speh @marcus_speh]

What's with the sheep, Prof?

[Marcus Birkenkrahe @birkenkrahe]

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” ― Dostoevsky

[Marcus Speh @marcus_speh]

»A year of good reading ahead.« Image source: https://t.co/YM1czApGbj

[Marcus Speh @marcus_speh]

I've literally been there.

[Marcus Birkenkrahe @birkenkrahe]

I'm feeling nostalgic for Notre Dame de Paris. In 1982, still in high school, I fell spent a night across the Seine on a velvet-covered divan in Shakespeare & Co's private upstairs library, because I fell asleep while reading.

[Marcus Speh @marcus_speh]

»Power circles the earth & just by putting a plug in a socket we call it down f/the skies like a thunderbolt. It brings freedom & also ignorance o/our own & others' nature & of the delicate balance upon which we intrude, by applying to the landscape an energy beyond our means.«

[Marcus Birkenkrahe @birkenkrahe]

Reading Scruton, "News From Somewhere - On Settling" to my daughter: »Digging by hand, laying a hedge with saw and bill-hook, clearing ditches, logging in woodland [...] - these experiences measure us against nature and remind us that we are part of it.« @normonics @MichaelTG09

[Marcus Speh @marcus_speh]

I often think my scientist alter ego a little too stiffnecked and unwilling to take risks, but this is spot on, mate.

[Marcus Birkenkrahe @birkenkrahe]

Began to listen to
@rustyrockets
podcasts - really like the mix of insightful inference, informed passion & common sense. Now: indignation towards the impossibility to grieve properly in the pandemic & remembering bygone traditions: https://t.co/7PkM7kNO6W - also: funny hat.

[Marcus Speh @marcus_speh]

@timsored @NASAPersevere Hey Tim, thanks for reading and appreciating! We're doing OK under the circumstances, and it sounds as if you're one of the "Lucky Ones". Godspeed!

[Marcus Speh @marcus_speh]

"The Lonely Robot" - inspired by @NASAPersevere #Perseverance https://t.co/zQzP5nLfV4

[Marcus Speh @marcus_speh]

Are you a serious writer [of anything worth writing]? Use the free, extensible @emacs editor with #orgmode https://t.co/Xfe7PyRuL7 - text is forever

[Marcus Birkenkrahe @birkenkrahe]

#listening to #schubert piano trio no. 2 in E flat major, played by Trio di Trieste. https://t.co/ZVjZkYyrU0 - Trop belle pour toi

[Marcus Speh @marcus_speh]

"The Lonely Robot" - inspired by @NASAPersevere #Perseverance https://t.co/zQzP5nLfV4

[Marcus Birkenkrahe @birkenkrahe]

I'm teaching a course on business technology for @CatholicPolyU from Feb 3-24 - please share widely!

[Marcus Speh @marcus_speh]

@fsf https://t.co/sKNod7wqFl