The US administration’s obstruction to the draft of the law against normalization with Bashar al-Assad’s regime violates the principles of international humanitarian law and contradicts declared positions.

A suspicious duality is driving the protection of normalization with a…

Teruah!

Does anyone actually call it that, rather than Worcester sauce?

Truly awe-inspiring.

('As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.”
--Peter Cook 😄)

Hell-fire preacher: 'On that day there will be a rending of garments and gnashing of teeth!!'
Older lady in audience: 'What about those of us who don't have teeth?'
Preacher: 'Fear not, Madam! Teeth will be provided'.

I have made my views clear.
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A sensitive reader of ancient poetry in the original will appreciate the surprising beauty and effectiveness of sense-enjambment without instant metrical continuity (synapheia).
Practice was surely variable; but in e.g. Iliad 1-2, metre demands a pause after the short -os of v1.

I wrote about it here. People who kill venerable trees court the fate of Erysichthon - autophagy - since wilful destruction of nature is itself a form of self-devouring.

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There’s always one. 🙄

Incredible and inspiring work to reconstruct Ancient Greek music. Einstein was wrong. Time travel is possible, if only through the medium of music. Armand D'Angour

The ‘new’ escalator at Paddington Station, still not working after 6 months of closure.
How is it possible that a relatively small engineering job in a major railway hub should be taking so long to complete?

From ‘dost’ to dust

Michael Wood I bow to the true maestro, Michael Wood - so deeply knowledgeable and such a superb promoter of knowledge in so many fields!

Astonishing viewing figures for such an abstruse topic.

Double-pipe.
Ceci n’est pas une flûte.

Do current events make anyone else think of the Devils of Loudun, the Witches of Salem, and other outbreaks of mass hysteria?

Xenophanes and Diogenes are missing. They were agin.

Our customs are absurd: it isn’t right
to praise a strong man more than one who’s bright.
A victory on the Olympic pitch
is not a thing to make the city rich.

Shingles, metatarsalgia, cataract. Just words, until you’re in your 50s and they become horribly real.

“What do you mean, “rubato”? Just play in time, woman!”

Keen to know the text. Does it say she was ‘arrhythmos’? If so, perhaps she was not following strict syllabic lengths; Plato thinks ‘melody should follow speech’ (Republic 4).