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sidetracks
I've spent large parts of today absorbed in Wikipedia. It started by a bit of Livejournal profile-hopping, until I hit upon someone's profile which mentioned the "Kinsey Scale", wandered off to Wikipedia to find out what that was [it's to do with sexuality, for anyone else as ignorant as me], and ended up on the article about the Third Gender. From ( Read more... ) -
honour thy father and mother
My television habits are going quite pear-shaped. I'll spend the evening faffing around on my laptop or reading a book, sat on the sofa while my parents watch television. Then, to wind down from having been sat in front of a computer screen, I watch something on iPlayer (logically, on a computer) in bed before going to sleep. Well, never mind ( Read more... ) -
thirty-two flavours and then some
Essays
I realised, while reading secondary texts for my German Modernism essay, that I could probably write a perfectly decent essay without ever picking up the primary texts.
Then I realised that was more or less exactly what I had done for my essay on Kievan Rus. We have very little direct access to the actual events and conditions of the time ( Read more... )
