Questions.
(because I didn’t know how to copy it as you did)
10: How tall am I? - Reasonably simple, though it has been a while since I checked, I doubt it has changed much; 183cm, or roughly 6ft.
17: Favorite [sic] food? Difficult. I suppose nothing specific, and at the moment, vegetarian, as long as it isn’t too fancy, but more homely and still prepared well.
29: Favorite [sic] song? Difficult, again, I suppose it depends on the definition of ‘song’. I am going to take it as a choral piece of music. If you allow me to split this into two parts; secular and religious music. Secular: most likely On Wenlock Edge, by Vaughan-Williams. Religious: more difficult, and it changes often.
39: Last book I read? (I’m taking this to mean in entirety) Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism, Regina Schwartz. It was a series of four essays on Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, and Herbert and the loss of the doctrine of transubstantiation in the Reformation, with the contention that the word was now transubstantiated in poetry rather than in bread. An interesting read, with some interesting thoughts, but poorly executed, with some ideas dragged out to strange extra-logical extensions, most I found to be on shaky ground.
Then shalbe read ii. lessons distinctely with a loude voice, that the people maye heare. The fyrst of the olde testament, the second of the newe. Like as they be appoynted by the Kalender, excepte there be propre lessons assigned for that daye: The ministre that readeth the lesson, standing and turnyng hym so as he maye beste be hearde of all suche as be present.
-The Book of Common Prayer, 1549
(Source: christianitas, via lordlavendre)
How to Sharpen pencils
“Many of my clients request the use of a single-blade hand sharpener because of the iconic, scalloped ribbon of shavings it produces. (Sometimes called “the apple-peel effect” or “M’lady’s ruffled skirt abandoned on the floor in the throes of our love-making.”)”




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