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From The Story Of Eclipses by George F. Chambers, 1903.
No special glasses required to see these lunar and solar eclipses
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“How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin stripes. It hangs like a glass cage. It is a hoop to be fractured by a tiny jar. There is a spark there. Next moment a flush of dun. Then a vapor as if earth were breathing in and out, once, twice, for the first time. Then under the dullness someone walks with a green light. Then off twists a white wraith. The woods throb blue and green, and gradually the fields drink in red, gold, brown. Suddenly a river snatches a blue light. The earth absorbs color like a sponge slowly drinking water. It puts on weight; rounds itself; hangs pendent; settles and swings beneath our feet.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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Fantaisies guérillères
Dans ce premier roman iconoclaste au style déjanté, Guillaume Lebrun imagine que Yolande d’Aragon crée une école de jeunes filles et entend confier à la meilleure de ses élèves le soin de sauver la France. Jehanne la douzième va sortir du lot.
En lice pour le prix du Premier Roman 2022
En deux mots
Alors que le Royaume de France part à vau-l’eau, Yolande d’Aragon a l’idée de rassembler une troupe de jeunes filles, les Jehanne, et de les former afin de confier à la meilleure d’entre elles le soin de sauver la France. Les postulantes commencent leur formation dans cette nouvelle «Star Academy».
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#Anglais#Armagnacs#école#belles-lettres#Bourguignons#Charles VII#conflit#envahisseurs#Formation#Guerre#Guerre de Cent ans#Histoire de France#Humour#iconoclaste#Inquisition#insolence#Jeanne d’Arc#Jehanne#Maladie#militaire#mission#néologismes#Religion#Royaume de France#Vengeance#voix#XVe siècle#Yolande d’Aragon
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Redrew Ferryman and Gabriel from the "He is the Light to My Darkness" album art. Gabriel looks a lot smaller than I tried to make him out to be 😭 Unfortunately, it's because I needed room in the canvas for his wings and halo.
Original reference.
Damn, the Ferryman is so gay for Gabriel. Good for them!
#Lady Belles-lettres' art#ultrakill#ultrakill gabriel#ferryman ultrakill#ferryman#gabriel ultrakill#gabriel#ultrakill fanart#ferrygabe
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18 décembre 1799 : mort du mathématicien Jean-Étienne Montucla ➽ http://bit.ly/Jean-Etienne-Montucla Forçant le respect du milieu scientifique avec la publication, en 1758, du premier volume de son « Histoire des mathématiques », Jean-Étienne Montucla suit parallèlement une autre carrière en occupant des fonctions publiques de l’ordre le plus élevé, la Révolution entraînant sa ruine
#CeJourLà#18Décembre#Montucla#Mathématicien#Mathématiques#Histoire#Sciences#Astronome#Roi#Bâtiments#Institut#Académie#Berlin#Belles#Lettres#Biographie#histoire#france#history#passé#past#français#french#news#événement#newsfromthepast
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APR 14 2023
I notice I am always looking for excuses to distract myself. Either by looking for things to purchase that I know I never really will, or by mindlessly scrolling on social media, or looking for things to "organize" and rearrange on my phone, or staring and looking at and rereading something multiple times just to relive the first moment I happened upon it.
Sometimes, I simply sit in one uncomfortable position for an unbearable amount of time just waiting for something to happen. Waiting for myself to complete a task, or telling myself I can reposition once I finish this one last thing that I end up doing in actuality because I get caught up in another one last thing.
Hell, I'm even doing it right now. "I'll lie down and get comfy in my bed after I finish this thought." But this thought never finishes—and isn't that precisely my problem? There is never a last thought because they cascade in torrential downpour and the only means of escape is by way of terminal dehydration.
My back aches in this contorted posture I have both subjected myself to and desperately wish to be freed from. Is this enough? Am I missing something? Is there more? What if I just wait a little longer to see? There has to be something I'm missing again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and I
will stop now and I'm sorry but I
lied again and again and again
because I had to make sure everything was perfect.
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#les boloss des belles lettres#jean rochefort#phèdre#jean racine#littérature#théâtre classique#Youtube
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#consuelo de saint exupéry#antoine de saint exupéry#le petit prince#(pas vraiment mais chut consuelo a inspiré la rose donc voilà)#consuelo suncín sandoval#j'ai découvert cette lettre hier je voulais la partager#je la trouve tellement belle et poignante#quote
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“To sit alone or with a few friends, half-drunk under a full moon, you just understand how lucky you are; it’s a story you can’t tell. It’s a story you almost by definition, can’t share. I’ve learned in real time to look at those things and realize: I just had a really good moment.”
— Anthony Bourdain, In his Final Interview
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Out soon: "Alexandre le Grand en syriaque. Maître des lieux, des savoirs et des temps" by Muriel Debié
Good day everyone, I’m Elena and thanks to be here on Alessandro III di Macedonia! Today we say goodbye to 2023 and say hello to a 2024 in the name of our Alexander the Great! To end on a high note, I’d like to point out this unmissable book for the most passionate:
Alexandre le Grand en syriaque
Maître des lieux, des savoirs et des temps
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First art for 2024 😳
Would you believe me that this drawing took me more than three days to finish? 😭 I wanted to draw something ship-related, and I found a reference image that is perfect to draw my favourite ships.
I might draw part 2 with more of my favourite ships if I'm up to it.
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#Lady Belles-lettres' art#Be prepared for tag vomit because there is going to be a LOT#bubbline#mv2#fredpheus#orphrick#noise x noisette#phobitor#Phobos x auditor#Jostonio#ferrygabe#gabv1el#Maryvera#buttonblossom#button blossom#trickjeb#2bhank#adventure time#ultrakill#identity v#idv#pizza tower#the amazing digital circus#tadc#madness combat#The Jostonio one is probably my favourite#Really proud of how it turned out#It was one of the hardest to draw because of Antonio's hair#Okay end of word vomit
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Hello hello there
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Hope you are a having an amazing day 💗 I’m so glad I can come and properly congratulate you hehehe
- xuseokgyu 💕
Hey Belle 🥰 thank you for the bday wishes 🥳💞 I couldn't be happier to be paired with you in the svt event 💙 here's to getting to know each other better 💕
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KIM KITSURAGI — The lieutenant’s expression is difficult to place as he ponders the mural.
THE NEXT WORLD MURAL — “TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD— FOR NEW PEOPLE. IT IS TOO LATE FOR US. WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS.”
INLAND EMPIRE — Right on.
CONCEPTUALIZATION — What a slogan! So many layers in so few words. Perfectly crafted to grab one’s attention and keep hold of it for long after you’ve passed by. You wish you’d thought of it.
“Truer words were never spoken.”
“What a fuckin’ bummer, am I right?”
“Not bad, but I like the one we painted in Martinaise better.”
KIM KITSURAGI — “You mean, the one *you* painted,” he says pointedly. “I had nothing to do with that.”
ESPIRIT DE CORPS — He did like your mural. He’s just never gonna admit it. He’s too committed to the bit.
THE NEXT WORLD MURAL — The words seem to tower over you as you and your partner take them in. Once again, you can’t help but wonder how the Belles Lettres managed to paint this monstrously massive mural without being seen.
VISUAL CALCULUS — Surely there must have been scaffolding involved, or some kind of machinery.
LOGIC — They were seen. Just not by anyone who would disturb their work, or sell them out to the police. Which, if the results of the vote are anything to go by, would be most of the people of Jamrock.
“What do you think about the part about true love, Kim?”
“What do you think about the part about the middle class, Kim?”
“Did you know there was a vote on whether or not to remove the mural?”
KIM KITSURAGI — “We did hear about it back at 57,” he admits. “It’s rare for your district to organize a vote like that. Or any district, for that matter…”
He frowns slightly, peering up at the embracing couple. “I’ll admit, when I heard about it, I had no idea how *big* this thing was. I’m surprised that they voted to keep it. You must be able to see it for miles…”
CONCEPTUALIZATION — Eight stories loud, painted over the corpse of a failed real estate venture. A reminder, a call to action, and a threat, all rolled into one. Constant and inescapable. Oh, yeah. *This* is good stuff.
EMPATHY — It makes the lieutenant uncomfortable.
CONCEPTUALIZATION — That’s the point.
YOU — “How would you have voted?”
KIM KITSURAGI — “I wouldn’t have,” he says drily. “I didn’t live here.”
“All right, fair enough.” (Drop the subject)
“Cmon, Kim. If you *did* live here, which side would you be on?” (Press him)
KIM KITSURAGI — “I don’t know that it’s about taking sides…” His sentence trails as he considers the mural.
PERCEPTION (Sight) — He glances at you for the briefest of moments, and then away. Almost as if he hadn’t meant to do it.
ESPIRIT DE CORPS [Godly: Success] — You make him uncomfortable in much the same way that the mural does. Representative of truths that he doesn’t know what to make of.
There was a time when he dreamt of things like true love. And heroic deeds, and brilliant discoveries, and aerostatic pilots. A home that belonged to him. A table laden with food and crowded with people. The future and the past were polar opposites in his eyes— one a painful collage of loneliness and ostracization, the other a blank canvas, and all the more beautiful for it. It could be anything.
It did not take long for the present to beat it all out of him. And then he blinked, and he was forty-three and alone, having spent twenty years of his life on stubbornness and spite, trying to prove himself to people who didn’t and still don’t care, at the expense of the people that he should have cared for. And he realized it was too late for him.
YOU — Too late for what…?
EMPATHY — To do or be anything different.
KIM KITSURAGI — “…I don’t know,” he finally says. His voice is level, but quiet. “But I can understand why people wanted it to remain.”
He tears his gaze away from the mural at last and looks at you. “What about you? How did you vote?”
YOU — “I can’t remember.”
KIM KITSURAGI — He grimaces slightly. “Right. Sorry…”
“But I think I would have voted for it to go.”
“But I think I would have voted for it to stay.”
KIM KITSURAGI — “That doesn’t surprise me,” he sighs. “I’m sure the part about wreaking havoc on the middle class especially appealed to you.”
“You know it, comrade.”
“No, it was the part about true love being dead.”
“No, it was the part about new people.”
KIM KITSURAGI — He looks at you strangely. “…Oh? What do you make of it?”
“There’s no such thing as new people. We’re all the same, and we’ll always be the same, walking in the same old circles.”
“Fuck the new people and their new world that we’ll never get to see.”
“I think anyone can become a new person if they try. It’s a call to action.”
“Even if it’s too late for us to be new, I think we can still change. And we can still love each other.”
KIM KITSURAGI — He looks for a moment as if he’s going to say something… and then nothing. His lips purse slightly.
EMPATHY [Formidable: Failure] — It’s hard to say what he thinks of your little thesis. Matters of love are tough on him.
COMPOSURE [Legendary: Success] — But you get the feeling that *something* is happening within the lieutenant. There’s a crack in the dam that’s widening every day, and he knows it. He’s afraid to let it happen, but he’s equally powerless to stop it.
INLAND EMPIRE — You’re afraid, too. You’re both the same brand of coward.
VOLITION — You’re both a lot of things that you don’t have to be. It’s too late to have never been them. But it’s not too late to stop.
ESPIRIT DE CORPS — Stopping is precisely what he’s afraid of. He wonders what of himself will be left if he ceases to be *this.*
That’s selfish. We’re both so selfish.
It would be better if we ceased to be anything at all.
Whatever is left, I’ll still love him.
INLAND EMPIRE — How do you know he *wants* your love?
YOU — I don’t know. But he has it, anyway.
THE NEXT WORLD MURAL — A cold wind rushes past you, sending a chill deep into your bones. Unconsciously, you both step closer to each other. Seeking warmth.
#disco elysium#harry du bois#kim kitsuragi#harrykim#kimharry#man idk whatever their tag is#anyway. the next world mural huh.#btw for clarity the cracks in the dam that kim and harry are both afraid of are like.#the realization that they need to stop being cops LSJDHXGXJX#like yeah also the love. but mostly the cop thing. they’re not unrelated i feel#hence why the mural ends with ‘’wreak havoc on the middle class’’
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The missing Arthurian knight - rediscovered in 2019
Well the title is a slight lie - the missing knight wasn't rediscovered in 2019, it was earlier than that, but he didn't became public until 2019.
So what's this "missing knight" about? Well as the title says. There was a knight part of the Arthurian myth, and he had been missing ever since the Middle-Ages, and he was only recently rediscovered.
Or rather, to be exact - there was an Arthurian novel centered around a knight that existed and was a famous and well-known part of the Arthurian literature in the Middle-Ages, but that completely disappeared, and was forgotten by culture (as much popular culture as the scholarly one). Until very recently.
This rediscovered novel has been a hot topic of all Arthuriana fans in Europe for a few years now - and yet I do not see much talk about this onto this website, despite Tumblr being a big place for Arthurian fans?
So I will correct this by doing a series of posts about the subject. And this post will be the first one, the introduction post presenting to you "Ségurant, le chevalier au dragon" ; "Segurant, the knight of the dragon". A French medieval novel part of the Arthurian literature (hence the "chevalier au X" title structure - like Lancelot, the knight of the cart or Yvain the knight of the lion from Chrétien de Troyes), the reason this story was forgotten by all medievalist and literary scholars is - long story short - because it never existed in any full manuscript (at least none that survived to this day). It was a complete story yes, with even variations apparently, but that was cut into pieces and fragments inserted into various other manuscripts and texts (most notably various "Merlin's Prophecies").
The novel and the Knight of the Dragon were rediscovered through the work of Emanuele Arioli, who rediscovered a fragment of the story while looking at an old manuscript of a Merlin Prophecies, and then went on the hunt for the other fragments and pieces scattered around Europe, until he finally could compile the full story, that he then published in 2019, at the Belles Lettres publishing house, in 2019.
Arioli reconstructed the text, and translated it in both modern French and Italian for scholarly and professional editions (aka Honoré Champion in France, a reference for universities)...
... But also for a more "all public, found in all libraries" edition - the famous 2019 edition at Les Belles Lettres.
And not only that, but he also participated to both a comic book adaptation with Emiliano Tanzillo...
... and an adaptation as an illustrated children novel!
Finally, just a few weeks, the Franco-German channel Arte released a documentary about the reconstitution and content of this missing novel called "Le Chevalier au dragon: Le roman disparu de la Table Ronde". (The Knight of the Dragon - The missing novel of the Round Table). The full documentary is on Youtube in French for those that speak the language, here. And in German here for those who speak German.
Unfortunately there is no English version of the documentary that I know of, nor any English publications of the actual text - just French and Italian. But hey, I'll try to palliate to that by doing some English-speaking posts about this whole business!
#ségurant#segurant#the knight of the dragon#le chevalier au dragon#arthuriana#arthurian myth#arthurian literature#arthurian novel#discoveries#medieval literature#arthurian legend#arthurian knights#found media#lost media#that people didn't even know was lost
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