Presque ma thèse en un tweet : j’ai montré que Les Confessions d’Augustin quoique non mentionnées explicitement par Montaigne sont bien présentes dans Les Essais. J’ai procédé à une lecture que j’ai appelée “par meurtrière” pour le prouver. J’ai traqué Augustin dans Les Essais 🕵️♀️
Si vous êtes proches de Paris les gens, je vous conseille d'aller voir l'exposition de Leonora Carrington au musée du Luxembourg. C'est la plus belle exposition que j'ai vue de ma vie.
Je la trouve précurseure sur tellement de points. C'était incroyable.
This little illuminated dragon is very happy about Pretext. He's too busy having fun to care about people's "hot takes" on how "it's not that special."
(This little dragon also only works on desktop right now but maybe I'll do mobile later)
https://t.co/k9FH6p1G0T
Finally! Reading! Books to start, books to finish, books to reread.
Thank you @madeleinehenryyoga, I mean the title alone . . . , Claire-Louise Bennett and the rhapsody of concision, the beautiful pages of @lauriesheck, Adrian Tchaikovsky's darkness of course, @joe_hill,
Front cover to Flatland (1884) by Edwin Abbott Abbott, who died #onthisday in 1926. Read Ian Stewart’s introduction to the strange tale of A. Square’s geometric adventures, the first ever book that could be described as “mathematical fiction” https://t.co/Bj28wJtUZ4 #otd https://t.co/pz2cwYWUwD
In an essay about the British and American fascination with rocking chairs and upholstery springs in the 19th century, @hunterdukes discovers how simple furniture technologies allowed armchair travelers to explore worlds beyond their own: https://t.co/xiJSsIdaEk
The Reverse of a Framed Painting (ca. 1670) by Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts.
More on this remarkable painting and other trompe l'oeil by Gijsbrechts in our latest post: https://t.co/EMMYijP5Wx
Born #onthisday in 1838, theologian and schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, who in 1884 published the remarkable Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, perhaps the first ever example of “mathematical fiction”. More on the book here: https://t.co/yqNYNkD0ls #OTD