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#Memes are a good way to get the attention of students.
Not mine, but it worked in class…
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Why Ghosts Are Haunting Us in 2026 (For Real)
https://lithub.com/why-ghosts-are-haunting-us-in-2026-for-real/
#Literature #Culture #Ghosts
First women of philosophy
Philosophy was once a woman’s world, ranging across Asia, Africa and Latin America. It’s time to reclaim that lost realm
by Dag Herbjørnsrud
https://aeon.co/essays/before-the-canon-the-non-european-women-who-founded-philosophy?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a39fa187e5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_09_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972
Books about or by women philosophers at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=women+philosophers
#books #literature #philosophy #womeninart
Paulina Borsook
'The most virulent form of philosophical technolibertarianism is a kind of scary, psychologically brittle, prepolitical autism...It’s an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with the demands of participating in society … these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect'
#siliconValley #culture #bookstodon #literature #cyberselfish
https://www.wired.com/story/paulina-borsook-profile/
KISS MINE ARSE. An offer, as Fielding observes, very frequently made, but never, as he could learn, literally accepted. A kiss mine arse fellow; a sycophant.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons@a.gup.pe
📚️ 🇸🇾 A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture and Literature
"A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language of the ancient city of Ugarit, a city that flourished in the second millennium BCE on the Lebanese coast, placed in the context of the culture, literature, and religion of this ancient Semitic culture."
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511996962
#AncientNearEast #Syria #Religion #Language #Linguistics #Literature #Culture #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon
"All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you - digger, listener, runner.... Be full of tricks, and your people shall never be destroyed."
- Richard Adams, "Watership Down"
#BookWormSat #InternationalRabbitDay #Fiction #Literature #RichardAdams #WatershipDown #Animal #Rabbit
Remembering Grazia Deledda, the Sardinian Nobel Prize-Winner We Should All Be Reading
Jeff Biggers on the Legacy of a Little-Known Writer on the 100th Anniversary of Her Prize
https://lithub.com/remembering-grazia-deledda-the-sardinian-nobel-prize-winner-we-should-all-be-reading/
Books by Grazia Deledda at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/33472
#books #literature #nobelprize
Charges of A.I. Writing in a Lauded Novel, and a Fight Over the Literary Future
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/world/europe/thelyson-orelien-ai-canada-haiti-france.html
#AI #Literature #Publishing
Lit Hub Daily: September 25, 2026
https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-september-25-2026/
#Books #Literature #Essays
Elizabeth Alexander on Finding Life in the Second Spring of Middle Age
https://lithub.com/elizabeth-alexander-on-finding-life-in-the-second-spring-of-middle-age/
#Literature #Essays #MiddleAge
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
https://lithub.com/what-should-you-read-next-here-are-the-best-reviewed-books-of-the-week-13/
#Books #Reading #Literature
BURNER. He is no burner of navigable rivers; i.e. he is no conjuror, or man of extraordinary abilities; or rather, he is, but a simple fellow. See THAMES.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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Homer's Catalogue of Ships from the Iliad. Where the...
https://kottke.org/26/09/0049646-catalogue-of-ships
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'Empire' asks: When a child dies, who pays the price?
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/24/nx-s1-5976045/empire-heir-sabaa-tahir-review
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"The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me..."
Lessons for the 21st century from a 200‑year‑old book by ‘Frankenstein’ author Mary Shelley
by Eileen Hunt
https://theconversation.com/lessons-for-the-21st-century-from-a-200-year-old-book-by-frankenstein-author-mary-shelley-291926
The Last Man by Mary Shelley at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18247
#books #literature #postapocalypitic
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Forgotten Mozart notebook reveals how a young woman learned to compose
The notebook preserves something that composer-centred histories often miss: the musical work taking place around Mozart, in this case by a young woman.
by Stacy Olive Jarvis
https://theconversation.com/forgotten-mozart-notebook-reveals-how-a-young-woman-learned-to-compose-292028?utm_campaign=the-daily-39618&utm_content=the-daily-39618_uk%7C2%7C39618%7C2e2a394b&utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze&utm_term=Forgotten+Mozart+notebook+reveals+how+a+young+woman+learned+to+compose
Original article:
https://www.bnf.fr/en/actualitesEN/discovery-unpublished-autograph-manuscript-mozart-bnf-music-department
Books by Mozart at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1368
#books #literature #music
OMG this list is an instaclassic ―and makes me feel totally seen. the last one ―which i resented having to read in high school― is totally spot on.
» 9 Cult Classic Books That Don’t Deserve The Hype https://screenrant.com/overrated-cult-classic-books/
#books #literature #popculture
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My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress…
—Jackie Kay, “George Square”
published in LIFE MASK (Bloodaxe, 2005)
Today, 21 September, is the International Day of Peace
https://www.un.org/en/observances/international-day-peace
#Scottish #literature #peace #poem #poetry #InternationalDayofPeace
"That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest."
- William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 73" 🎨 Raymond McCormack
#ShakespeareSunday #Literature #Poetry #Renaissance #Elizabethan #Shakespeare #WilliamShakespeare