Rachel Weisz as Sarah Churchill
in THE FAVOURITE
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Morseverse for Pride!
Looking for something new to me | Far Forest , Seminole Heights, Tampa, Florida, United States
Emily Wilson has written about her approach to the battlements scene in Iliad 6 and I am not emotionally ready for her translation (complimentary.)
Singapore, Peranakan Houses in Euros District, c. 2010. Tuul & Bruno Morandi. Digital, paper.
We love our new book train. It’s helping to quickly transport materials from the stacks beneath the Stephen A. Schwarzman upstairs to the researchers who need them!
At first I thought this was really cool. Then I watched it with sound. Morning made.
I've decided there are two categories of historical novelist:
Category A: Primary sources? What primary sources? I read Alison Weir, that's enough.
Category B: Oh I did SO much research, I am SO historically accurate, I read ALL the primary sources....wait what do you mean those sources are 'apocryphal'? What do you mean 'the author has an agenda' and 'apply critical thinking'? It was in a primary source! Why aren't you treating me like a historian?
Category C is Patrick O’Brian who did bonkers amounts of research and then went and wrote the year 1812 twice because he couldn’t fit everything he wanted to write about from that year into the novels’ timelines otherwise
heartofstanding asked:
For the detective drama casting hour, Harriet Walter in Vera?
It is shamefacedly that I discover I never replied to this! It is an inspired idea, and such is Harriet Walter’s range that I pondered this for some time. What I’d like, I think, is for Harriet Walter to play a highly successful academic. Many years ago, she was (incongruously enough) a protégée and ally of Vera’s at school, where they were united in preferring the library to the gym, and the open air to either. She will now be embroiled, of course, in a philosophically and practically intricate case. Whether or not HW confirms for Aidan Vera’s claim to have once been a sprinter is open to question. Equally open to question is whether we think she’s telling the truth or not (about the sprinting and other matters.)