Stan Carey · @stancarey
1139 followers · 768 posts · Server mastodon.ie
A lovely half-hour chat in praise of linguistic nonsense:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l2cw
#nonsense #language #words #EdwardLear #LewisCarroll #poetry
#nonsense #language #words #EdwardLear #lewiscarroll #poetry
Zivian · @Zivian
5 followers · 3 posts · Server sfba.socialOoh, that was fun. I deactivated at last — going into 2023 without a certain social media site. Excited to be here, too. I’d love to meet folks here who are interested in #climate #equity #entomophagy #justice #environmentaljustice #agriculturalpolicy #oceanscience #marinepolicy #degrowth #decroissance #languages #mysteries #cooking #edwardlear #padova #history and a range of random things
#climate #equity #entomophagy #justice #environmentaljustice #agriculturalpolicy #oceanscience #marinepolicy #degrowth #decroissance #languages #mysteries #cooking #EdwardLear #padova #history
Snarkology · @snarkology
29 followers · 32 posts · Server zirk.us
«There was an old man of Port Grigor,
Whose actions were noted for vigour;
He stood on his head
till his #waistcoat turned red,
That eclectic old man of Port Grigor.»
(#EdwardLear, 1872)
«He was black in the face,
and they scarcely could trace
The least likeness to what he had been:
While so great was his fright
that his #waistcoat turned white –
A wonderful thing to be seen!»
(#LewisCarroll, from “#TheHuntingOfTheSnark”, 1876)
Background info: https://snrk.de/waistcoat-poetry/
#waistcoat #EdwardLear #lewiscarroll #TheHuntingOfTheSnark
Snarkology · @snarkology
29 followers · 32 posts · Server zirk.us«There was an old man of Port Grigor,
Whose actions were noted for vigour;
He stood on his head
till his #waistcoat turned red,
That eclectic old man of Port Grigor.»
(#EdwardLear, 1872)
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«He was black in the face,
and they scarcely could trace
The least likeness to what he had been:
While so great was his fright
that his #waistcoat turned white –
A wonderful thing to be seen!»
(#LewisCarroll, from “#TheHuntingOfTheSnark”, 1876)
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#waistcoat #EdwardLear #lewiscarroll #TheHuntingOfTheSnark
Edward Bindloss · @edwardbindloss
130 followers · 74 posts · Server zirk.us#introduction
Having just carried all my books to a loft apartment I am playing with atelier living.
Law by day, literature by night. Northern England.
Am writing a philosophy book about Wise Fools: #Socrates #Diogenes, Jesus, #SaintSymeon, #Shakespeare #Cervantes, #Rabelais, #Swift, #Nietzsche, #Dostoevsky, #EdwardLear, #OscarWilde, #KarlKraus, #Wittgenstein #LeonoraCarrington, #StevieSmith, #Borat
#introduction #socrates #Diogenes #SaintSymeon #shakespeare #Cervantes #Rabelais #Swift #nietzsche #dostoevsky #EdwardLear #oscarwilde #KarlKraus #wittgenstein #LeonoraCarrington #StevieSmith #Borat
StoryDragon —DM before follow! · @storydragon
98 followers · 4406 posts · Server dragonscave.space
Roarning!
The poem for today is "The Duck and the Kangaroo" by Edward Lear.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54363/the-duck-and-the-kangaroo