Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Laura

@lauropea.bsky.social

5.7K followers 660 following 2.7K posts

historian and philologist putting the t back in incunabula since 2025 wahlwienerin / teilzeitberlinerin (in ausbildung)

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · Oct 22

Me: I'm feeling really Sapphic

You: Tell me more 😏

Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s

14 200 760

Reposted by Laura

tranna karenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 16h

yes, yes, it's true that [insert criticisms of genAI] but you've failed to take into account that i'm a lazy piece of shit with no taste or discernment, and deserve money and praise for that

1 8 34

Reposted by Laura

tranna karenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 16h

it helps me a lot with [something of zero or negative value to society] so i don't think it's fair to take it away from me or make me pay my share of the actual costs of producing and maintaining the models

3 15

Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 16h

100%

Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 16h

I ACCEPT THE CHARGE

Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 16h

The Ed.yssey

1 1 4

Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 17h

Good editors cost money: V. S. Sukthankar on producing a critical edition of the Mahābhārata, 1943

Ladies and Gentlemen, I must tell you frankly this is a costly work. All good work costs money now-a-days! Good manuscripts cost money. Good printing costs money. Good editors cost money.

The British nation once paid out one million pounds for one rare Ms. of the Bible. Would India pay a similar amount for any book? Why not? Are the British people greater lovers of books, greater lovers of literature, greater lovers of religion, greater lovers of knowledge than we Indians? Cer-tainly not. Great Britain is a small nation, a young nation, compared to India. And our love of knowledge, love of literature, love of scriptures, is greater. We are the inheritors of the great book, this "book of books" composed at a time when Great Britain was not yet entered on the map of civilized nations. And the entire cost of making this Critical Edition of the Maha-bhārata is only one million rupees and not pounds which is only 1/15th of the cost of the Bible. We have collected and spent already 5 lakhs of rupees. We want now only 5 lakhs more. And we are not pessimistic about it. We have no reason to be that. When the war clouds have passed away, better days will surely dawn for us; then the thoughts of men will again turn to the preservation and growth of cultural values. We shall then, I am confident, enjoy the same generous support from patrons of learning as we have hitherto enjoyed and that will help us to carry to com-pletion one of the most important of our national projects.

2 13

Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 17h

writing an epic poem about the great textual critics of history, who edited texts hundreds of pages from thousands of manuscripts that a hundred philologists would quiver to approach today, copying it out in several versions and dispersing them and then ascending to lachmannian godhood

1 15

Reposted by Laura

Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · Nov 15

Just read something that contained the phrase 'lexical fetishism' and how dare you try to kinkshame me

3 31

Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 21h

hver eneste gang jeg åbner en bog af Knut Hamsun bliver jeg fuldstændig besat af hans prosa- fan, hvordan manden kan skrive. jeg læste Sult og Mysterier næsten uden at lægge de fra mig et øjeblik, og da jeg nåede min u-bane-station i dag gik jeg af toget med bogen endnu åben og gik sådan på kontoret

Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 23h

(500+ accounts which joined 6 Nov 2024 and have 40k followers in spite of doing nothing but RTing memes show up commenting 'he's not red, he's ORANGE!! get the gosh dang CHEETO out of the HIPPODROME')

Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah what struck me is it's just at the bottom of the page, not like an initial or ropework like this ms has elsewhere. Almost like a stamp, but it looks like it's hand-drawn...

1 3

Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 23h

in the later american empire, power was contested between two rival sporting factions, the reds and the blues

3 2 32

Reposted by Laura