Denis Keefe

Suffolk born, Essex raised, Classics in the Fens. Ancient world, recorders, clinker built boats.

[Denis Keefe @saelcho]

@TolkienProverbs Eomer: "How shall a man judge what to do in such times?" Aragorn: "As he has ever judged. Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear. " Advice that has helped me in many difficult situations.

[Denis Keefe @saelcho]

@arthistorynews One of our Aircraft is Missing

[Denis Keefe @saelcho]

@aelfred_D “From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer’s day; and with the setting sun Dropp’d from the Zenith like a falling star.”

[James F. McGrath @ReligionProf]

Never forget the fundamental importance of names. https://t.co/56VOtVjnK2

[Denis Keefe @saelcho]

@Scott_Wortley Huge if true

[Denis Keefe @saelcho]

@ArmandDAngour @EveKeneinan Reminds me of the last chapter of "The Prisoner of Zenda" - "I should know the photograph from the picture: the picture’s very like the photograph, but ... It's more like you!"

[Adam Nathaniel Furman @adamnfurman]

Unbelievable. The wrong power-washer solvent on the Barbican strippd grime 2 reveal a hiddn decorative scheme. Channeling the polychromy of their classical training, the self-hating brutalist architects secretly aplied this vibrant protest against the City's refusal 2allow colour

[Denis Keefe @saelcho]

@Rainmaker1973 @bmorebooks Parkinson's Law was actually "work expands to fill the time available for its completion". The verbose version at 6 illustrates this neatly.

[Jem Bloomfield @jembloomfield]

Today on the newsletter: a silly piece on how adaptations of Austen and Le Carre imply that the same group of people reappeared hundreds of years apart...
(Link in next)

[Denis Keefe @saelcho]

@DrFrancisYoung Once in Oxford I hunted down a 19th Century German article that appeared at the end
of every footnote on a small but tricky point. I eventually found the bound volume in Bodley. The pages were uncut.

[Denis Keefe @saelcho]

@FaringForwards @amjuster Not at all!

[Denis Keefe @saelcho]

@DrFrancisYoung @pronouncedsimon It's complicated

[Denis Keefe @saelcho]

@mfjlewis @ModernBoethius Sounds more like Lenin than anything else

[Kate Keefe @SingenBingen]

Can you name everyone in your pew? Everyone has several people that they meet regularly and can't put a name to, but I'd like to do better in church specifically. Here's my latest for @The_Tablet on why it matters:
https://t.co/zYMn2eHoJO

[Denis Keefe @saelcho]

@SketchesbyBoze But what an appearance in Dante!

[Denis Keefe @saelcho]

@McAuleyGer @hoosier_cs Jan Žižka wouldn't agree, nor Ktož jsú boží bojovníci (Ye warriors of God ...)

[Denis Keefe @saelcho]

@stevhep Yes - high-minded people in the West admiring what they see as the desert purity of Islam or the radical simplicity of Buddhism. But the Sabbath was made for man, and people are messy.

[Denis Keefe @saelcho]

@HiddenYorkshire What I want back is Brett's burgers in Oxford c. 1980. Decent sized bun, good meat, aioli. Cooked in front of you. No messing about.

[Denis Keefe @saelcho]

@DrFrancisYoung De rerum novitate

[Denis Keefe @saelcho]

@DrSamGeorge1 @DrFrancisYoung Trollope used Bohemia for a similar effect- Madam Max, Mealyus and of course Nina Balatka

[Denis Keefe @saelcho]

@ae_stallings @ArmandDAngour Yes, the first sight of the Greek fleet, the fight with Hector and the encounter with Priam. Otherwise leave any knowledge of the Iliad at home.