![Second weekend without an open house…They must have received some offers then, no? I strongly suspect this is the only affordable West Village townhouse I’ll see this spring, but the flat is so very small [350 sq feet?], and still quite dear.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3w4x4kG341r9uqh6o1_500.jpg)
View high resolution
Second weekend without an open house…They must have received some offers then, no? I strongly suspect this is the only affordable West Village townhouse I’ll see this spring, but the flat is so very small [350 sq feet?], and still quite dear.
I am going to purchase some books [paper codices, to be clear]. I abhor summer and shall probably be spending a lot of time indoors, though often not ‘at home’.
I will update this list periodically.
…
So, Dan, are you going to invite her in, or what?
(I’ve been waiting for this for 5 years. Yes, such is my life…If you’d like to watch the final scene, here’s the vid.)
Edited: I think I’ve just watched this scene half a dozen times. I need to go to bed.
(Source: annelli0t)
When did this interview take place? At the beginning of series 5? I suppose one could guestimate based on the length of Penn’s hair. His observations don’t seem to bode well for Dair shippers, at least in the long run.
Frack.
(Source: colfercriss)
“Associations with night before the 17th Century were not good,” [Craig Koslovsky] says. The night was a place populated by people of disrepute - criminals, prostitutes and drunks. “Even the wealthy, who could afford candlelight, had better things to spend their money on. There was no prestige or social value associated with staying up all night.”
That changed in the wake of the Reformation and the counter-Reformation. Protestants and Catholics became accustomed to holding secret services at night, during periods of persecution. If earlier the night had belonged to reprobates, now respectable people became accustomed to exploiting the hours of darkness. This trend migrated to the social sphere too, but only for those who could afford to live by candlelight.
With the advent of street lighting, however, socialising at night began to filter down through the classes. In 1667, Paris became the first city in the world to light its streets, using wax candles in glass lamps. It was followed by Lille in the same year and Amsterdam two years later, where a much more efficient oil-powered lamp was developed. London didn’t join their ranks until 1684 but by the end of the century, more than 50 of Europe’s major towns and cities were lit at night. Night became fashionable and spending hours lying in bed was considered a waste of time.
"BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep
(via ayjay)
All Your Brain Are Belong To Us: Neuroscience Goes To War « The Disorder Of Things
(via mwfrost)
Unsurprisingly, I’m not the only fellow to recommend Henry Green after watching Downton Abbey. Yes, there’s a country house, petty intrigues, upstairs-downstairs, and war. And, yes, there is love. Green isn’t the easiest of authors, but if you can manage a bit of avant-garde, you should give him a try. Updike thought him one of the great stylists of modern English prose (I confess I am sometimes more affected by Green’s sentences than his books). More recently, James Wood has championed him (besides Wood’s discussion of Flaubert, it was his praise for Green that confirmed for me Wood’s quality as a critic).
♥ 1993 Review of Henry Green in The New Criterion
♥ One of my favourite passages from Green’s autobiography Pack My Bag:
On Saturday parents brought daughters down to see their brothers and, as this was a fashionable school and many of these girls if they were old enough had their photos in the weekly papers, one knew them by sight before one was faced by what to me was beginning to be the glory of their flesh. It was time that I should begin to notice and, as I had had no contact, almost no conversation even with any but servants, and maids I did not seem to take for girls, I started at the extreme and put them on thrones, more particularly because I had been reading Keats. Nobody who has sisters can tell how remote they are to those who have none and, their appearance now being exactly what I admired, I went down the street finding angels dressed like crown princesses in every little judy visiting her brother.
…
It was their skin got me which I had never touched except on hands and which I thought to be softer than I afterwards found, that skin down from the neck coming out of flowering summer dresses which sent me back to my room to read Spenser. It was their eyes I never looked into I was too modest and too modest by far to fall in love, their arms which I thought were cold and which I could not think they ever used to help them kiss, their lightness I did not know the weight of, the different way they moved and literally then it seemed as though they were walking in water up over their heads along the glaring street, all this bemused me although I had been reading Herrick. For I did not believe what was written in books and when I saw there how women enjoyed making love I could not, it was too much to believe.
View high resolution
Wait…when was this? This is lovely and amazing…
Edited: Bloody hell, this is from series 2! I never watched this episode, and yet I believed in Dair for years.
(Source: youknowu-loveme)
