Snoozin Sontag
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Crawford Robotham | He/him | 'Whatever partakes of God is safe in God.' | 🇻🇦🏳️🌈 | 🐝 appreciator | S Dominic ora pro &c
And on this 5th of January, 2026, I read Kathleen Raine's 'In My Seventieth Year', now my favourite poem, for the first time.
January 5, 2026 at 10:23 AM
And on this 5th of January, 2026, I read Kathleen Raine's 'In My Seventieth Year', now my favourite poem, for the first time.
Really, really worth yr while to do it w Peake I've gotta say!
in 2026 instead of lore-diving whatever giant franchise benefits from your engagement try doing it with any writer/director with a substantial body of work but no “fandom”. Marie Ndiaye. Maryse Conde. Samuel Fuller. See where it gets you. If you gotta have a static setting do Mervyn Peake
January 1, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Really, really worth yr while to do it w Peake I've gotta say!
I have been many places and seen many things and there are few to equal the cathedral of Ely floating above the fens, bristling with turrets and pinnacles and haunted by the wings of a thousand angels on the ramparts of eternity.
December 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I have been many places and seen many things and there are few to equal the cathedral of Ely floating above the fens, bristling with turrets and pinnacles and haunted by the wings of a thousand angels on the ramparts of eternity.
So... four saints on the points of a process. cross — Bonaventure, Francis of Assisi, Anthony of Padua and one saint wearing a cope & mitre w the initials 'S L EP': who is it?
I'm assuming that if three are Franciscans, then the fourth prob is too, but Louis of Toulouse seems a rogue choice?
I'm assuming that if three are Franciscans, then the fourth prob is too, but Louis of Toulouse seems a rogue choice?
December 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
So... four saints on the points of a process. cross — Bonaventure, Francis of Assisi, Anthony of Padua and one saint wearing a cope & mitre w the initials 'S L EP': who is it?
I'm assuming that if three are Franciscans, then the fourth prob is too, but Louis of Toulouse seems a rogue choice?
I'm assuming that if three are Franciscans, then the fourth prob is too, but Louis of Toulouse seems a rogue choice?
A) Christians awake, salute the happy morn
B) In dulci jubilo
C) Love and hard times
B) In dulci jubilo
C) Love and hard times
Favorite Christmas
A) HYMN
B) CAROL
C) SECULAR SONG
A) HYMN
B) CAROL
C) SECULAR SONG
December 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
A) Christians awake, salute the happy morn
B) In dulci jubilo
C) Love and hard times
B) In dulci jubilo
C) Love and hard times
By my count I managed to sing 'lo we saw a wondrous sight' instead of 'light' 5 out of 6 times in the past week.
December 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
By my count I managed to sing 'lo we saw a wondrous sight' instead of 'light' 5 out of 6 times in the past week.
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Know, o Christian, your dignity. And having been made a sharer in the divine nature, do not fall back into the vileness of your old, degenerate condition. … By the sacrament of baptism you have been made a temple of the Holy Spirit. ~ Pope St. Leo the Great (Office of Readings) #Christmas
December 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Know, o Christian, your dignity. And having been made a sharer in the divine nature, do not fall back into the vileness of your old, degenerate condition. … By the sacrament of baptism you have been made a temple of the Holy Spirit. ~ Pope St. Leo the Great (Office of Readings) #Christmas
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Citrus peel simmering for the Christmas stollen—impossibly fragrant
December 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Citrus peel simmering for the Christmas stollen—impossibly fragrant
If we are what we memorise (pace a dozen caveats), I am:
I. Donne's A valediction forbidding mourning
II. Kavanaugh's Beyond the headlines
III. The prayers of the rosary
IV. A billion Patch the Pirate songs
V. That old cartoon with 'I'm a spoon!'
I. Donne's A valediction forbidding mourning
II. Kavanaugh's Beyond the headlines
III. The prayers of the rosary
IV. A billion Patch the Pirate songs
V. That old cartoon with 'I'm a spoon!'
December 22, 2025 at 11:42 AM
If we are what we memorise (pace a dozen caveats), I am:
I. Donne's A valediction forbidding mourning
II. Kavanaugh's Beyond the headlines
III. The prayers of the rosary
IV. A billion Patch the Pirate songs
V. That old cartoon with 'I'm a spoon!'
I. Donne's A valediction forbidding mourning
II. Kavanaugh's Beyond the headlines
III. The prayers of the rosary
IV. A billion Patch the Pirate songs
V. That old cartoon with 'I'm a spoon!'
*gestures broadly in the direction of Auden's erotica*
E. M. Forster left a diary to King’s College, Cambridge that is basically all his notes about sex with the rule that anyone could come read it for research in person, but it couldn’t be published. You have to make an appointment and be there.
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
December 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
*gestures broadly in the direction of Auden's erotica*
And it was then, reading this post, that I realised why BlueSky failed to give quite the joy of ancient Twitter: *I had forgotten to follow the Egyptologists*
The next Dem administration better treat Trump like he’s Akhenaten and they’re King Tut.
December 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
And it was then, reading this post, that I realised why BlueSky failed to give quite the joy of ancient Twitter: *I had forgotten to follow the Egyptologists*
Ok ok, now I'm curious: if you cd suddenly have any epistle (Pauline or otherwise!) memorised *besides Romans* wh would it be?
There seems an obvious answer to me, but maybe I am built diff
There seems an obvious answer to me, but maybe I am built diff
If you were suddenly given the gift of having memorized one of the Pauline epistles, which would it be and why?
December 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Ok ok, now I'm curious: if you cd suddenly have any epistle (Pauline or otherwise!) memorised *besides Romans* wh would it be?
There seems an obvious answer to me, but maybe I am built diff
There seems an obvious answer to me, but maybe I am built diff
Truly, what could possibly be more of a via dolorosa
December 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Truly, what could possibly be more of a via dolorosa
Is there anything quite as addictive as blowing your nose just one more time
December 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Is there anything quite as addictive as blowing your nose just one more time
The early mornings just *are* better with a tree
December 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
The early mornings just *are* better with a tree
Me, a Catholic, leaning into Bulgakov's most speculative takes: is this breathing w both lungs of The Church™️ 🦋
December 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Me, a Catholic, leaning into Bulgakov's most speculative takes: is this breathing w both lungs of The Church™️ 🦋
Magnificat antiphon when
Everyone's a little broken
And everyone belongs
And everyone belongs
December 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Magnificat antiphon when
... heartily, as unto the Lord & not unto men...!
Not being a good marketer is what makes your product better.
December 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
... heartily, as unto the Lord & not unto men...!
Corpus Turki Carol, to be imagined as if sung by Jeff Buckley
'...And in that garden there was a pot
That was filled with brine I wot,
And in that brine there was a bird,
And it was frozen hard as [word that rhymes with bird and means rock].'
Jesu mercy, Mary help
'...And in that garden there was a pot
That was filled with brine I wot,
And in that brine there was a bird,
And it was frozen hard as [word that rhymes with bird and means rock].'
Jesu mercy, Mary help
November 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Corpus Turki Carol, to be imagined as if sung by Jeff Buckley
'...And in that garden there was a pot
That was filled with brine I wot,
And in that brine there was a bird,
And it was frozen hard as [word that rhymes with bird and means rock].'
Jesu mercy, Mary help
'...And in that garden there was a pot
That was filled with brine I wot,
And in that brine there was a bird,
And it was frozen hard as [word that rhymes with bird and means rock].'
Jesu mercy, Mary help
Wow, golly I feel seen
Yes I am very introverted but not shy at all, so I am just constantly exhausted.
November 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Wow, golly I feel seen
Sung to Howells's Hymn For S Cecilia.....
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Sung to Howells's Hymn For S Cecilia.....
Me, a v 21st c Catholic, rapidly scrolling through the new Marian doc on my way to sing Evensong, so I can tell my husband if I'm mad or not when I get home
November 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Me, a v 21st c Catholic, rapidly scrolling through the new Marian doc on my way to sing Evensong, so I can tell my husband if I'm mad or not when I get home
Considering it's the greatest song of the last century, it's kind of surprising how few singers have covered Let It Be!
November 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Considering it's the greatest song of the last century, it's kind of surprising how few singers have covered Let It Be!
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"Not only is Camp not necessarily bad art, but some art which can be approached as Camp (example: the major films of Louis Feuillade) merits the most serious admiration and study." — Susan Sontag, Notes on Camp
November 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"Not only is Camp not necessarily bad art, but some art which can be approached as Camp (example: the major films of Louis Feuillade) merits the most serious admiration and study." — Susan Sontag, Notes on Camp