Dumbphone research getting to the tedium stage now.

unfortunately quite a big difference between "this case is solved" and "Philippa Langley says this case is solved"

‘His ego was as stripped back as his style. He wore a business suit in public and disliked artists he thought looked like artists.’

Clare Bucknell on Piet Mondrian:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Some campaigners claim it is ‘vanishingly rare’ that men use the law to abuse women. This is not true. History shows us that when new laws are introduced, even/especially pro-feminist laws, men are swift to identify and weaponise loopholes against women. Here are some examples:

I was on French Exchange when John Paul II died and my friend's exchange's pet rabbit also died, leading her mother to utter the immortal words <Le pape est mort, le lapin est mort, tout le monde est mort.>

'From Pentonville Road Looking West, London, Evening' (1884) by John O'Connor

(London Museum)

I enjoy small talk with strangers but if I am carrying a book it is because I fully intend on reading it and if I am wearing earbuds it is because I want to shut out annoying noise (which may include you)

The genuine hot take is that there are hundreds of Holocaust movies but hardly any about centuries of non-Holocaust antisemitism not because "the Jews" want it, but rather because the heroes of the Holocaust movies tend to be non-Jews saving Jews, which is what audiences like to see.

‘Raids were common, so the fugitives didn’t wear shoes: if they had to race up to the roof to hide, no one would hear their hurried footsteps.’

Inigo Thomas on his aunt’s diary of Rome in wartime:: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

And what I'm thinking is that if the way out was acceptable to think & write about Jews changed so fast, it's quite feasible - likely, even - that the change was shallow. That Europeans (possibly Germans aside) haven't really properly contended with what it meant to have attitudes like those. 》

‘There is nothing so sacred you are not allowed to touch it. You can hold in your hand a seashell Gray picked up on a trip to Fairlie beach with some friends on 7 February 1994.’

@danigaravelli.bsky.social visits the Alasdair Gray archive: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This is organist Olena Kohut, killed today in Sumy by the Russian missile. Joseph Rheinberger, Visione, op. 156 no. 5
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