Dave Brown
@adavebrown.bsky.social
Trail running, PhD in inter-generational metaphor in Paul and Seneca, Disability Theology, inclusion, academic for hire, Anglican minister, family and kindness. The odd day at the cricket.
…what does this first century elite dude know about nursing an infant? He’s never done it, maybe seen it, likely didn’t care to try and understand it.I’m thinking how the tropes that likely existed influence the experiential interpretation of role metaphors, which doesn’t seem to be spoken of much.
November 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
…what does this first century elite dude know about nursing an infant? He’s never done it, maybe seen it, likely didn’t care to try and understand it.I’m thinking how the tropes that likely existed influence the experiential interpretation of role metaphors, which doesn’t seem to be spoken of much.
I’m reading through your book at the moment and thinking about role metaphors (eg male authors using maternal metaphors) in the same space. Can you see overlap there? I can see that as an interesting interpretive lens, and what should have been an obvious thought… (1/2)
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I’m reading through your book at the moment and thinking about role metaphors (eg male authors using maternal metaphors) in the same space. Can you see overlap there? I can see that as an interesting interpretive lens, and what should have been an obvious thought… (1/2)
Having just written a PhD thesis on Seneca, I’m listening…
November 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Having just written a PhD thesis on Seneca, I’m listening…
…and the danger of erroneously accepting stereotypes of minorities as presented by the majority group; which has me wanting to reread my preseation of mother and orphan metaphor in my thesis (and also gives me a new paper idea).
Plus she used the word Salient multiple times, take that reviewer #1.
Plus she used the word Salient multiple times, take that reviewer #1.
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
…and the danger of erroneously accepting stereotypes of minorities as presented by the majority group; which has me wanting to reread my preseation of mother and orphan metaphor in my thesis (and also gives me a new paper idea).
Plus she used the word Salient multiple times, take that reviewer #1.
Plus she used the word Salient multiple times, take that reviewer #1.
I can be both excited by its existence, and relieved that I finalise my thesis next week and don’t have to find it and reference it :)
September 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I can be both excited by its existence, and relieved that I finalise my thesis next week and don’t have to find it and reference it :)
Breaks out? What? In a skin rash? Some dance moves?
August 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Breaks out? What? In a skin rash? Some dance moves?
May you know rest, refreshment and joy today!
August 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
May you know rest, refreshment and joy today!
Would you accept a middle class well wisher? Best I can do.
August 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Would you accept a middle class well wisher? Best I can do.
And there’s a precedent from 1930 when England played against NZ and West Indies with different sides on the same day. And good games for the ‘A’ sides. And red ball specialists could probably play both test series, for the Lyon’s of the world who won’t play many T20 leagues.
July 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
And there’s a precedent from 1930 when England played against NZ and West Indies with different sides on the same day. And good games for the ‘A’ sides. And red ball specialists could probably play both test series, for the Lyon’s of the world who won’t play many T20 leagues.
This is what happens when you do research in baseball season.
July 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This is what happens when you do research in baseball season.
“And behold I am with you always - even in your conference hotel” - Matthew 28.20
July 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“And behold I am with you always - even in your conference hotel” - Matthew 28.20
I mean, what purpose could a university possibly have for (checks notes) academics?
Makes a load of sense (eyeroll)
Makes a load of sense (eyeroll)
June 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I mean, what purpose could a university possibly have for (checks notes) academics?
Makes a load of sense (eyeroll)
Makes a load of sense (eyeroll)
Also interesting is that the purpose of Archimedes’ book, Archimedis Syracusani Arenarius & Dimensio Circuli, was the highly practical task of calculating an upper limit on the number of grains of sand that could fit in the universe.
Et fin. (4/4)
Et fin. (4/4)
June 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Also interesting is that the purpose of Archimedes’ book, Archimedis Syracusani Arenarius & Dimensio Circuli, was the highly practical task of calculating an upper limit on the number of grains of sand that could fit in the universe.
Et fin. (4/4)
Et fin. (4/4)
So yeah. Copernicus is a plagiarist and should be discredited as such (not really), and the theory is over 22 centuries old. (3/4)
June 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
So yeah. Copernicus is a plagiarist and should be discredited as such (not really), and the theory is over 22 centuries old. (3/4)
…of Samos (died around 230BC), as the origin of the theory. The interesting bit is that Copernicus (who inspired Galileo to prove the heliocentric solar system model) originally cited the idea as Aristarchus’ in a draft, then removed the citation in later versions. (2/4)
June 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
…of Samos (died around 230BC), as the origin of the theory. The interesting bit is that Copernicus (who inspired Galileo to prove the heliocentric solar system model) originally cited the idea as Aristarchus’ in a draft, then removed the citation in later versions. (2/4)
Is there a way to get compensation lawsuits going? Start hitting them economically? Only language they speak.
June 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Is there a way to get compensation lawsuits going? Start hitting them economically? Only language they speak.
And occasionally slips in as my Facebook profile pic, thanks to the passing resemblance!
June 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
And occasionally slips in as my Facebook profile pic, thanks to the passing resemblance!
Sic semper tyrannis.
June 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Sic semper tyrannis.
I had a similar thought. I affirm any righteous actions they make.
And condemn the unrighteous ones.
And condemn the unrighteous ones.
June 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I had a similar thought. I affirm any righteous actions they make.
And condemn the unrighteous ones.
And condemn the unrighteous ones.