Slightly Dryad 🌿

Curating a digital commonplace to help me live life lovingly. Adoring the Beautiful, adorning the dark. “What is all this juice and all this joy?”

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[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

We record our first ever musical episode on @TheRestHistory - Muco singing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, & assorted other medieval bangers!

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Choosing names with high nicknameability is one of my core values

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Back in the Middle Ages, it was common to shorten names and create playful, rhyming alternatives.

Richard -> Rick -> Dick

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A friend was telling me the other day that her husband’s plumbing company is rolling back their adoption of AI customer service because, in a shocking twist, it turns out humans still really like other humans.

[FOX 5 Atlanta @FOX5Atlanta]

Chick-fil-A is turning down artificial intelligence in its drive-thru lanes, choosing human employee interaction over automated order takers as competitors embrace voice technology. https://t.co/Rd3ouIAWlj

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@brianonhere “A Small, Good Thing” - Raymond Carver
“Revelation” - Flannery O’Connor

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@SketchesbyBoze 100 degrees yesterday 😔

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Two poems from Ursula K. Le Guin:

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Fantastic

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

The transitions between each section are incredibly smooth. It’s so good that I got completely absorbed in this arrangement and almost forgot about the original soundtrack.

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@NatureUnedited Okay, may require Totoro squirrel

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Few can write as hilariously and humanely as Dickens. One minute you’re tearing up at all the pathos of Dan Peggotty, and then gasping for breath at Wilkins Micawber’s flourishes. So, so good.

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@Briellefine The 7th circle of Hell

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“ALSO…”

[Spencer A. Klavan @SpencerKlavan]

You didn’t know that you need to hear Olivia Colman reading this 1618 list of gentle demands from a lady to her husband. But you do.

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I can’t take this seriously (the apple!) and I don’t really like full cast audiobooks, but 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢 is a perfect October book, and the Greg Wise audiobook is quite good.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First clip of Jonathan Bailey and Ella Purnell recording lines for Audible's audiobook adaptation of ‘DRACULA’.

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Inferno within, inferno without

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@interesting_aIl Roy Kent penguin

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[Jessica Meir @Astro_Jessica]

Milky Way with a Moonlit Earth. Compare this to my previous Milky Way view and behold the power of our Moon! The Earth is so awash in Moonglow it looks like daytime, complete with blue oceans and continental outlines. The Moon just keeps on giving - even more motivation to return there with the @NASAArtemis program!

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Please, please read myths and fairytales to your children. Today my students had not the slightest idea who King Arthur was, and it made me very sad.

[Letters of Note @LettersOfNote]

Happy 70th birthday to the perfect excuse.

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Prepping a Dante class right now, and thought it would be fun to do a comparison with Scrooge’s own descent into hell in A Christmas Carol

[Paul Krause @paul_jkrause]

Getting ready to start teaching Dickens next week. If you had your choice of one novel of his to teach, which would it be? Teaching Great Expectations...

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“Quick now, here, now, always —”

[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

It’s TS Eliot’s 138th birthday.

Drop your favorite Eliot verses in the replies. I’ll go first.

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

Tonight's harvest moon, the first full moon after the autumnal equinox, has a special history. This is what Sir Gawain and the Green Knight calls the 'Michaelmas moon', and in the old Anglo-Saxon calendar it was the herald of winter.

https://t.co/DdyeO5MGCW