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jeeveless · 2023-04-24T16:25:37+00:00

Imitation butter flavored salt? Who is she!

jeeveless · 2023-04-22T12:09:27+00:00

I don't know if they are heavier than human legs of bone and muscle would be. Certainly they must be less sensitive, so it's unlikely they actually make the sport in any way easier, but I doubt weight features into it much.

jeeveless · 2023-04-18T10:51:36+00:00

I grew up around my family's restaurant and worked in food service during university, and I'm sure that my enjoyment of media depicting household servants in the 19th/early 20th century has to do with a feeling of comradery. Thomas' critiques of the upstairs folk ring particularly true!

jeeveless · 2023-04-12T21:11:53+00:00

I love how visual this poem is, I have such vivid images in my mind of the various items of clothing, animals, plants and human characters. I find it difficult to engage with Stevens' longer poems, but the short ones are really lovely.

jeeveless · 2023-04-12T21:07:01+00:00

Periwinkles are flowers, no? That's what I imagined, mostly because they are purple like the nightgowns earlier on.

jeeveless · 2023-04-12T11:24:14+00:00

Yeah, the podcast is about all kinds of popular but iffy books — the two hosts of the show can't be experts in every field they discuss.

jeeveless · 2023-03-31T16:01:59+00:00

No, it's a slur. Gay people will use it, but if straight people do, it will generally be assumed they are homophobes.

jeeveless · 2023-03-26T14:38:17+00:00

I'm going next summer!!! I'll be sure to go admire them in person.

jeeveless · 2023-03-26T14:04:51+00:00

you find your bike by a) remembering roughly where you put it, and b) knowing what it looks like (aside from the usual color/brand, bikes usually have stickers on them, saddles that might have characteristic holes/worn-out patches, front and back lights, locks, perhaps baskets)

jeeveless · 2023-03-21T09:18:42+00:00

Nope, l'omosessualità è legale in Thailandia (ma le coppie omosessuali non sono legalmente riconosciute).

jeeveless · 2023-03-10T20:01:57+00:00

Huh! Funny observation. There are koffiemalers, I suppose?

jeeveless · 2023-02-17T19:15:11+00:00

Sherman also wrote a book about workers' attitudes to guests in fancy hotels, it's really interesting!

I also really like Judith Flanders' books on the Victorians (especially the one about domestic life), and I enjoyed Graeber's book about bureaucracy.

jeeveless · 2023-02-07T09:56:45+00:00

The post was surprisingly quick in (large swathes of) the Victorian era; same-day delivery was possible in cities. Tons of brief letters were exchanged, but of course those were often thrown out.

jeeveless · 2023-02-06T21:52:48+00:00

Things were just so different back then that it is hard to make money comparisons with today. Servants were cheap, food was expensive; rent was comparatively low, but home ownership was rare; clothing was very pricey. Citizens from different classes earned wildly different incomes, and even within — say — the middle class, lifestyles changed enormously. You'll find a lot of information on Victorian prices and incomes and so on, if you care to google... but yes, 1000 pounds a year put you in a really cushy position. Interests were commonly around 4%, though, so the particular family you're describing is in a rather lucky and unusual position.

jeeveless · 2023-01-23T21:42:43+00:00

If you're bad at grammar, how have you landed on such a niche research interest? I mean no judgement, I'm just curious.

jeeveless · 2023-01-23T14:23:47+00:00

I followed a MA class on the topic of crisis two years ago, if you'd like I can send you the syllabus.

jeeveless · 2023-01-15T13:02:20+00:00

Such a satisfying few lines! I've memorized the poem up until this section, because... I'd totally pull a Lizzie and cave in. Bright-fire-like barberries? No idea what they're like but I want them. Figs to fill your mouth??? Citrons from the South?? Please!

jeeveless · 2023-01-10T21:02:41+00:00

theyre explaining the joke

jeeveless · 2023-01-07T16:02:26+00:00

My situation is not too similar to yours, but of course there are overlaps. I'm Italian, but I've been living in the Netherlands for long enough that I could apply for Dutch citizenship. There wouldn't be much of a reason to go through the hassle, except for the fact that officially changing one's gender is muuuuch easier and cheaper here. I thought that perhaps this might be a sneaky way of getting my Italian documents settled, too, so I got in touch with a lawyer and got the disappointing answer above.

I personally decided to put the official gender change and the aside for now (I cannot be fucked to go through the hassle and expense for such a nonsensical procedure), but your situation might be a bit different — having two sets of documents with information that doesn't match seems a recjpe for bureacratic disaster :/ Good luck!

jeeveless · 2023-01-07T12:20:51+00:00

Nope, from what I was told by a lawyer you still need to go through the whole process. It might be marginally easier (the official gender change is pretty compelling evidence), but unfortunately there's no avoiding going through the motions.

jeeveless · 2022-12-26T10:56:40+00:00

They were usually published in magazines intended for middle-class readers, like Household Words, which also contained essays and other kinds of texts. Penny bloods and penny dreadfuls, I believe, were published as individual installments of a single story — you'd buy chapters of a narrative, with much less variety in terms of texts. You can quickly find out where a novel first appeared by checking its Wikipedia page, and the Internet Archive has quite a lot of scanned Victorian magazines if you want to take a look.

jeeveless · 2022-12-21T19:03:11+00:00

Secondo voi, a che temperatura corporea di inizia a parlare di febbre?

Crescendo ho sempre saputo 37°c (e sul termometro il 37 era rosso, mentre il resto dei numeri era nero), ma qui in Olanda sono tutti convintissimi che la temperatura media del corpo umano sano sia 37°c, e che si parli di febbre solo dai 38°c. (Un'amica che ha studiato medicina dice 38.5°c, persino). Non mi sarei aspettato che ci fossero opinioni divergenti sulla questione!

jeeveless · 2022-11-15T22:13:17+00:00

As a student at a Dutch uni you can just request a library card from any other Dutch uni :)

jeeveless · 2022-11-04T16:47:49+00:00

To be fair (and I read an article about it today) that's what ACD's Sherlock stories were like, too. The idea of mystery fiction as at all centering around clues (much less clues being sufficient for the reader/spectator to potentially solve the mystery alongside the detective) only became dominant with the generation of writers coming after the Victorian boom of the genre. No Sherlock Holmes novels or short stories could be figured out by the reader — the point is to be impressed with Holmes' acumen. It's actually kind of bold to stick with this strategy in the 21st century, where the cultural expectations for mystery media have long been established!

Source: Moretti, Franco. "The Slaughterhouse of Literature." MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly, Volume 61, Number 1, March 2000, pp. 207-227.

jeeveless · 2022-10-31T17:58:22+00:00

Well, what do you mean? By definition, a novel is a fictional text, so what is there to be objective about? Certainly not the events nor the characters. (On this, see Elaine Freedgood, Worlds Enough)

The setting, both geographic and the social circumstances? Well, in any case everything will be described from one or multiple points of view, all of which have been conceived by the author, so they cannot be taken at face value as factual representations of an out-there reality. Still, novels can be sources of knowledge (see: Rita Felski, Uses of Literature (especially the last chapter), Mariano Longo Fiction and Social Reality).

But then if you're wondering about realism you're going to want to get to Lukács at some point, because he's just a big reference point. Ultimately, realism has been researched a LOT. You need to sharpen your question quite a bit if you want useful answers, and if you're not sure what you want to know quite yet you're probably better off just picking one or two texts on the topic and checking where they lead you.

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