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so it’s. it’s like. man this is so hard without my laptop.
alright so Crassus is a weird guy, existentially. There’s a tendency to speculate, assign, and insert him into whatever places are conspiratorial and shadowy because he fits into those narrative places with ease. My personal favorite (aside from all of it) is the idea that he may have pulled strings wrt to Sulla and Caesar’s conflict to help get Caesar out of it.
The Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae and the Invasion of the East, Gareth C. Sampson
In the universe that exists in my head, he definitely had a hand in it, but he didn’t really intend for Caesar to figure out he played a part in it, but Caesar’s good at puzzles, and noticing someone goes both ways. Binding someone to yourself goes both ways.
Crassus: The First Tycoon, Peter Stothard
This scene takes place sometime relatively soon after Sulla’s death. Crassus has complicated feelings about it, Caesar less so. Veni, vidi, vici, baby!
Here’s a bonus thing that I keep thinking about with them.
The Roman Revolution, Ronald Syme
like, utang na loob. and it is DEEP between them.
#this is actually an old first draft script from a much longer Caesar/Crassus arc I’ve been writing#To go along with the Pompey/Crassus one#Accidentally it’s turned into a whole arc bc why not do the Caesar/Pompey civil war break up while I’m at it#anyway formatting all of this on my iPad was a nightmare no more comics that I have to split up for posting until I get a laptop#tris homines#roman republic tag#komiks tag#drawing tag#there’s a modern gangster AU version of this scene where Crassus and Caesar fuck on the floor in front of Sulla’s funeral portrait#Pompey is there too bc I finally remembered how I was tagging my tris homines live blog and found#The quote comparing the three to some kind of transgressive incestuous relationship. Thank u at my past self for live-blogging that#anyway this was relegated to first draft pits bc Crassus needs to have more bite about it but I wanted to draw them kissing. So.#(Waving a flag) get it caesar#(Bite as in sharp teeth and edges you could cut yourself on if you aren’t careful. Which is why Caesar is Always Very Careful#Pompey’s the opposite about it but I’ll get to those comics. Soon…….hopefully……………..)#gaius julius caesar#marcus licinius crassus
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The Antonian Reading List
Mark Antony: A Life by Patricia Southern (Highly recommended!)
Mark Antony: A Biography by Eleanor Goltz Huzar (Highly recommended!)
The Life and Times of Marc Antony by Arthur Weigall (Recommended)
Marc Antony: His Life and Times by Allan Roberts (Recommended)
Marc Antony by Mary Kittredge
Antony & Cleopatra by Patricia Southern
Antony & Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy (By far the most negative book on Antony by a modern historian, the Cleopatra portion is better)
Mark Antony: A Plain Blunt Man by Paolo de Ruggiero (Recommended)
Mark Antony and Popular Culture: Masculinity and the Construction of an Icon by Rachael Kelly
Mark Antony's Heroes: How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Created an Emperor by Stephen Dando-Collins
A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War and the Collapse of the Roman Republic by W. Jeffrey Tatum (Highly recommend!)
Mark Antony & Cleopatra: Cleopatra's Proxy War to Conquer Rome & Restore the Empire of the Greeks by Martin Armstrong
Actium and Augustus: The Politics and Emotions of Civil War by Robert Alan Gurval
The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme (Recommended)
Octavian, Antony and Cleopatra by W. W. Tarn
Fulvia: Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic by Celia E. Schultz
Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley (Highly Recommended!)
Cleopatra by Michael Grant (Highly Recommanded!)
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff (Highly Recommended!)
Cleopatra - A Biography by D. Roller
Cleopatra and Antony by Diana Preston
Cleopatra by Alberto Angela (Recommended)
Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott
Cleopatra the Great by Joann Fletcher
Cleopatra and Egypt by Sally-Ann Ashton
Cleopatra and Rome by Diana E. E. Kleiner
Cleopatra Her History Her Myth by Francine Prose
Cleopatra Histories, Dreams, and Distortions by Lucy Hughes Hallett (Recommended)
Cleopatra’s Daughter Egyptian Princess by Jane Draycott
The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (Good for beginners)
The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar by Peter Stothard
Robicon by Tom Holland
Alesia 52 BC: The final struggle for Gaul (Campaign) by Nic Fields
Actium 31 BC: Downfall of Antony and Cleopatra (Campaign) by Si Sheppard
Pharsalus 48 BC: Caesar and Pompey – Clash of the Titans (Campaign) by Si Sheppard
Philippi 42 BC: The death of the Roman Republic (Campaign) by Si Sheppard
Mutina 43 BC: Mark Antony's struggle for survival (Campaign) by Nic Fields
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium by Barry Strauss
The Battle of Actium 31 BC: War for the World by Lee Fratantuono
Rome and Parthia: Empires at War: Ventidius, Antony and the Second Romano-Parthian War, 40–20 BC by Gareth C Sampson
Rivalling Rome: Parthian Coins and Culture by Vesta Curtis
Classical sources:
Plutarch’s Lives
Cicero: Philippics, Ad Brutum, Ad Familiares
Appian, The Civil Wars
Dio Cassius, The Roman History
Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars
Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War
Livy, The Early History of Rome
Tacitus, Annals and Histories
Friction:
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra by Willian Shakespeare
All For Love or The World Well Lost by John Dryden
The Siren and the Roman – A Tragedy by Lucyl
Caesar and Cleopatra by George Berbard Shaw
Cleopatra (play) by Sardou
Antony by Allan Massie
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
I, Cleopatra by William Bostock
Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard
Cleopatra by Georg Ebers
Kleopatra (Vol I & II) by Karen Essex
Last Days with Cleopatra by Jack Lindsay
The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
When We Were Gods by Colin Falconer
The Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough
Caesar's Soldier: Mark Antony Book I by Alex Gough (Ongoing series)
The Antonius Trilogy by Brook Allen
The Last Pharaoh series by Jay Penner
Throne of Isis by Juith Tarr
Hand of Isis by Jo Graham
Woman of Egypt by Kevin Methews
The Ides of Blood 01-06 (Comics)
Terror - Antonius En Cleopatra (Erotic yet pure love, Dutch comics)
Cleopatra - Geschiedenisstrip (Dutch comics)
Les Grands Personnages de l Histoire en Bandes Dessinees – Marc Antonie (French comics)
Les Grands Personnages de l Histoire en Bandes Dessinees – Cleopatre (French comics)
Les Grands Personnages de l Histoire en Bandes Dessinees – Julius Caesar (French comics)
Cléopâtre (French Manga)
Ils Ont Fait L'histoire - Cléopâtre (French Graphic Novel)
#mark antony#marc antony#marcus antonius#cleopatra#cleopatra vii#antony and cleopatra#rome#ancient rome#roman history#roman republic#roman empire#books#book recommendations#reading list#to read list#history
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An Irving Penn portrait, from 1947, of the hulking Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen and his chic wife, Dagmar, seems made for the coldest days of winter. Read Rachel Syme on why she comes back to this image, winter after winter: http://nyer.cm/yhcvbL5
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On September 19th 1817 the remains of Robert Burns are moved to the Robert Burns Mausoleum in Dumfries.
Robert Burns was originally buried in St Michael's Churchyard, Dumfries, in a simple grave, marked only by a plain stone slab. In 1803 when Dorothy and William Wordsworth visited Dumfries they had difficulty in even finding the grave. Burns' admirers came to believe that this was an insufficient memorial to the poet.
In 1813 his friend, John Syme formed a committee and launched an appeal to build a mausoleum in his memory. One of the subscribers was the Prince Regent, later George IV. The mausoleum was completed in September 1817. The statuary group which is within the mausoleum was designed and worked by Peter Turnerelli. It depicts Burns' own conception of 'Coila', representing the Ayrshire district of Kyle where he was born, throwing her inspiring mantle over the poet as he works at the plough.
The laying of wreaths at the mausoleum on the poet's birthday was instigated by Dumfries Burns Club. This ceremony was observed throughout the 19th century and formed part of the celebrations of the first and second centenary of his birth. It is still an important element of the rituals of Burns' birthday today.
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Court Circular | 22nd March 2023
Buckingham Palace
The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP (Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury) had an audience of The King this afternoon.
The Queen Consort, Colonel-in-Chief, The Rifles, this afternoon received General Sir Patrick Sanders upon relinquishing his appointment as Colonel Commandant and Lieutenant General Tom Copinger-Symes upon assuming the appointment.
By command of The King, Mr Alistair Harrison (Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps) called upon Her Excellency Mrs Vanessa Eugenia Interiano Elfarnawany at 8 Dorset Square, London NW1, this morning in order to bid farewell to Her Excellency upon relinquishing her appointment as Ambassador from the Republic of El Salvador to the Court of St. James’s.
St James’s Palace
The Duke of Edinburgh, Patron, The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Foundation, this morning held a Meeting via video link with Israeli National Award Operators in Israel.
Palace of Holyroodhouse
The Princess Royal, Patron, UK Harbour Masters Association, this afternoon attended the Thirtieth Anniversary Spring Conference at the John McIntyre Conference Centre, 18 Holyrood Park Road, Edinburgh, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of the City of Edinburgh (Councillor Robert Aldridge, the Rt Hon the Lord Provost).
Her Royal Highness, Honorary Patron, the Scotland Malawi Partnership, later attended a Youth and Schools Festival at Edinburgh City Chambers, High Street, Edinburgh.
The Princess Royal, Patron, Scotland’s Churches Trust, afterwards received Colonel James Erskine at the Palace of Holyroodhouse upon relinquishing his appointment as Chairman and Professor Adam Cumming upon assuming the appointment.
Her Royal Highness, Past Master, the Royal Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh, this evening launched the Community Grants Scheme at the Merchants’ Hall, 22 Hanover Street, and was received by Mr Peter Hillier (Deputy Lieutenant of the City of Edinburgh).
The Princess Royal, Chancellor, the University of Edinburgh, subsequently held a Student Enterprise Dinner at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
Kensington Palace
The Duke of Gloucester, Vice Patron, National Churches Trust, this morning received Sir Philip Rutnam (Chairman) and Mrs Claire Walker (Chief Executive).
The Duke of Gloucester and The Duchess of Gloucester, President, this evening attended a performance by the Royal Academy Opera of “Le Nozze Di Figaro” at the Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London NW1.
#court circular#princess anne#princess royal#king charles iii#queen camilla#prince edward duke of edinburgh#prince richard duke of gloucester#birgitte duchess of gloucester#british royal family
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top five characters!! 😈
oooooh lads lads lads ok in no particular order but as they come to me:
1 - gabriel syme from the man who was thursday. hes a menace and a gremlin and a horrible classist snob and he is absolutely fucking with you and hes completely sincere, he'll pull the nose off a marquis and chase god across London with an escaped elephant, hes everything to me
2 - bilbo baggins from the hobbit. truly what a lad. adventure? no thanks. well ok but im going to complain the whole time. a sneak thief and a liar, and is there anything more iconic than getting knocked out and missing ur book's whole climactic battle. perfect boy.
3 - lord peter wimsey from the wimsey novels by dorothy sayers. also a menace and a gremlin and a snob, the smartest man in the room and the biggest idiot you've ever met, i love him so much.
4 - i feel like i am now seeing a pattern here bc spike from buffy, also a shitty little gremlinn who'll save the world if he has to but wld at all times rather be mooching about eating people and being terrible. i love him even tho he likes the sex pistols.
5 - snufkin from the moomins. impeccable vibes. just impeccable.
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What Did I read This Year? A 2023 Retrospective
Ok, so this was a big year for my Tumblr blog, so I thought it would be fun to go over what I read this year! The rules for the retrospective are thus:
Only book reviews count, because I actually read or reread those books this year. First Lines, meme, and quotes do not require that, so they're not counting. Little reading updates and thought posts also don't count. So let's see what I read this year!
January 3: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
January 5: One for All by Lillie Lainoff
January 8: Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
January 10: Shadowfell, Raven Flight, and The Caller by Juliet Marillier (trilogy, so counts for three!)
January 13: Raybearer and Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko (duology)
January 19: Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise, and Magic's Price by Mercedes Lackey (trilogy)
January 22: No Dominion by CE Murphy
January 29: Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater
February 5: The Walker Papers by CE Murphy (series of 9 books because I'm counting by the original publishing order, not the rebrand and republish, where it's 10 books)
February 12: Wildwood Dancing and Cybele's Secret by Juliet Marillier (duology)
February 19: Shakespeare Saved my Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard by Laura Bates
February 24: The Cardinal Rule, The Firebird Deception, and The Phoenix Law by CE Murphy (trilogy)
February 27: The Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter (seven book series)
March 3: Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
March 6: Imzadi Forever by Peter David
March 17: The Bright and Breaking Sea and A Swift and Savage Tide by Chloe Neill (first two books of a series)
March 19: The Harp of Kongs, A Dance with Fate, and Song of Flight by Juliet Marillier (trilogy)
March 24: Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn
March 26: The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
March 29: Kenobi by John Jackson Miller
March 31: Spice Road by Maiya Ibrahim
April 2: Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey
April 5: The Phantom of Pemberley by Regina Jeffers
April 9: The Blood Trials by NE Davenport
April 12: Arrows of the Queen, Arrow's Flight, and Arrow's Fall by Mercedes Lackey (trilogy)
April 19: Dracula by Bram Stoker
April 26: Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
April 30: Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray
May 3: When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
May 7: Scales and Sensibility by Stephanie Burgis
May 14: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
May 17: Star by Star by Troy Denning
May 21: The Protector of the Small Quartet by Tamora Pierce (four books)
May 28: That Self-Same Metal by Brittany N. Williams
May 31: Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer
June 11: Through the Fire by CE Murphy
June 14: The Song of the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce (four books)
June 18: The Circle of Magic Quartet by Tamora Pierce (four books)
June 21: The Circle Opens Quartet by Tamora Pierce (four books)
June 25: Uprooted by Naomi Novik
June 28: The Immortals Quartet by Tamora Pierce (four books)
July 2: Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer
July 5: Storm Front by Jim Butcher
July 9: The Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce
July 12: Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by Esme Symes-Smith
July 16: An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn
July 19: Battle Magic by Tamora Pierce
July 23: Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce
July 26: Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
July 30: Melting Stones by Tamora Pierce
August 2: Claws and Contrivances by Stephanie Burgis
August 6: Gladiator Bear by CE Murphy
August 9: Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer
August 13: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casy McQuiston
August 16: Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater
August 20: Long Shadow by Olivia Atwater
August 23: Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
August 27: Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
August 30: Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
September 3: The Blonde Identity by Ally Carter
September 6: It's In His Kiss by Julia Quinn
September 10: On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn
September 13: Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer
September 13: The Artemis Fowl Files by Eoin Colfer
September 20: Dark Water Daughter by HM Long
September 24: X-Wing: Wraith Squadron by Aaron Allston
September 27: X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar by Aaron Allston
October 1: Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
October 4: Maskerade by Terry Pratchett
October 8: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
October 11: Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer
October 15: A Shadow in the Ember by Jennifer L. Armentrout
October 18: The Secret Shanghai Series by Chloe Gong (four books, two novellas)
October 25: Heat Wave by Richard Castle
October 29: Raven Heart and Polar Heart by CE Murphy (two books in a series)
November 1: A Light in the Flame by Jennifer L. Armentrout
November 5: The Phoenix King by Aparna Verma
November 8: Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
November 12: Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
November 15: The Dragon Prince of Alaska by Elva Birch
November 19: The Dragon Prince's Librarian by Elva Birch
November 22: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
November 26: Wildfire by Hannah Grace
November 29: Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian by Eoin Colfer
December 3: A Fire in the Flesh by Jennifer L. Armentrout
December 6: The Mask of Mirrors by MA Carrick
December 10: The Dragon Prince's Bride, The Dragon Prince's Secret, the Dragon Prince's Magic, and The Dragon Prince's Betrayal by Elva Birch (four of a series of six books)
December 13: Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri
December 17: Death Masks by Jim Butcher
December 20: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
December 24: A Christmas Like No Otter by Zoe Chant
That's about where I got to this year, and it has been a wonderful year in reading. I'm so looking forward to next year! Leave your favorite book from 2023 and your most anticipated 2024 book in the tags, and may you have a Happy New Year!
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NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (1954, BBC TV LIVE) – Episode 147 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era
“Now then, come on there. Them stew with salt and them stew without. Come on, now.” Isn’t it wonderful to have options in your diet? Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Whitney Collazo, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, and Jeff Mohr – as they take in the telerecording of a live performance of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954), based on Nigel Kneale’s adaptation of George Orwell’s famous novel and featuring Peter Cushing in possibly his best performance.
Decades of Horror: The Classic Era
Episode 147 – Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954, BBC TV Live)
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In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
Director: Rudolph Cartier
Writers: Nigel Kneale (adapted as a television play by), George Orwell (novel)
Selected Cast:
Peter Cushing as Winston Smith
André Morell as O’Brien
Yvonne Mitchell as Julia Dixon
Donald Pleasence as Syme
Arnold Diamond as Emmanuel Goldstein
Campbell Gray as Parsons
Hilda Fenemore as Mrs. Parsons
Pamela Grant as Parsons Girl
Keith Davis as Parsons Boy
Janet Barrow as Woman Supervisor
Norman Osborne as First Youth
Tony Lyons as Second Youth
Malcolm Knight as Third Youth
John Baker as First Man
Victor Platt as Second Man
Van Boolen as Barman
Wilfrid Brambell as Old Man / Thin Prisoner
Leonard Sachs as Mr. Charrington
Sydney Bromley as Waiter
Janet Joye as Canteen Woman
Harry Lane as Guard
Richard Williams as Narrator
Nigel Kneale as Telescreen Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Roy Oxley as Big Brother (uncredited)
Join the Grue-Crew for a very special episode featuring a review of the 1954 BBC TV presentation of Nineteen Eighty-Four (originally an episode of BBC Sunday-Night Theatre) starring Peter Cushing in a break-out role alongside André Morell, Yvonne Mitchell, and Donald Pleasence. The original presentation on December 12, 1954, was controversial and unrecorded. Thankfully for genre fans and Peter Cushing fans alike, BBC programmed a second live show on December 16 which was recorded and remains available today. Check out what the Grue-Crew have to say about this slice of British television history. Let’s just say they were gobsmacked.
At the time of this writing, Nineteen Eighty-Four is available to stream from the Classic Sci-Fi Movie Channel and is available as a Blu-ray disc (Playback Region B/2) from BFI.
Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule is one chosen by Whitney, Even the Wind is Afraid (1968, Hasta el viento tiene miedo), written and directed by Carlos Enrique Taboada, starring Marga López, and credited as having revitalized the Mexican horror genre.
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It's been a year since I sent this out to subscribers of my Patreon and now it is time to let people know all about the lost hat of Peter Mull.
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The Lost Hat Of Peter Mull
Peter Mull made his best hat – some suggest the greatest hat in history – on November 7th 1804. Afterwards he made more hats, all of fine quality, nothing but of the best left his workshop. Yet none quite reached the same heights and he himself seemed to lose some spark. It was ten more years before he gave up – half-blinded and half-dazed by quicksilver – and in that time none of his hats were notable, as though having reached that height he knew he would never equal it.
It was bought, according to his shop records, by Edward Symes, gentleman, for 5 Guineas, an expensive hat though not extraordinarily so. Mr Symes own papers do not appear to have survived so to follow it we have to rely on references on other people’s documents.
Alice Amour notes in a letter to her sister that Symes seems even more handsome in his smart new hat that was the talk of the hour. Joshua Remand wonders in his journal how he managed to purchase it considering that he owed him two hundred pounds in gambling debts. Pierre Sant-Blanc has a very clear description of it, the best we have, that he wrote in his Guide To London For The Émigré Royalist, though unfortunately it is in French and we await a good translation.
What happened to the hat is a mystery. There are indications that it may have been lost at the Epsom Derby, or stolen from the cloakroom during a ball to celebrate the victory at Trafalgar, or perhaps it was sat on at the opera by an exiled German prince. Symes was inconsistent in his story, or perhaps those who wrote it down were careless. In any case he complained afterwards that no hat, not even others bought from Mull, was its equal.
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Barry illustration by Peter Strain for The New Republic article The Bad Actor
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PUBLIUS CORNELIUS CETHEGUS
what a guy. what a guy! rome sure was full of guys
Crassus, Catilina, and the Vestal Virgins, Ronald Syme
Crassus: The First Tycoon, Peter Stothard
Plutarch, Crassus
#marcus licinius crassus#publius cornelius cethegus#drawing tag#roman republic tag#tris homines#centhegus is definitely the kind of guy where the barkada call him bossing. crassus too unless this is the army and then you call him sir#step out of line at your own peril#cassius also gets called bossing by the barkada. brutus does not#this categorization/classification probably means nothing to most of you but it is essential to. me.
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Still Peter Syme from Jekyll because I'm not very satisfied with the last one lol
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LIFE PROMISED ME A NUREYEV TO MY JUNO! Where are you my fabulous queer icon? This is homophobia
#juno steel#peter nureyev#tpp#the penumbra podcast#joshua ilon#rex glass#dahlia rose#duke rose#noah symes#jupeter
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On November 29th 1813 a campaign was launched in Dumfries to raise public subscriptions to fund a mausoleum for the poet Robert Burns.
The first attempt to have a memorial erected to Burns was made as far back as 1812, by John Forbes Mitchell of Bombay, and it is ironic that the first expression of a national, as opposed to a local, nature, should have come from overseas. Although Mitchell eventually collected a large sum of money for this purpose, it was not until he returned to Britain in 1819 that he could take practical steps to implement his proposals. In the meantime, plans for monuments to Burns had been maturing elsewhere.
In 1813, John Syme, who had been a close friend of Burns, campaigned to raise funds for the Mausoleum. The structure was designed by Thomas Frederick Hunt while sculptor Peter Turnerelli created the scene in marble of Burns at the plough contained inside.
On 19th September 1815 the poet`s remains were exhumed and re interred in the mausoleum. The service was attended by his wife Jean Armour, who had been unable to attend the original service as she was giving birth to Burns` son.
It was actually built by a local stonemason named John Milligan at a cost of just over £300. Though the structure was completed in 1817 Burns' body was moved to its new home in 1815 while the mausoleum was being built.Burns' wife Jean Armour was interred beside her husband in 1834. At this time a plaster cast was made of Burns' skull. Also buried in the mausoleum is the couple's son Maxwell Burns, who died in 1799 at just 2 years and 9 months old, and Francis Burns, another son who died in 1803 at 14 years old.
The mausoleum takes the form of a neoclassical rotunda with pairs of Ionic columns supporting an octagonal drum with a dome at the top. Within the mausoleum is a group of sculptures by Peter Turnerelli.
The sculptures show the ancient Muse 'Colla', a representation of the Ayrshire region of Kyle where Burns was born, throwing her mantle over Burns while he ploughs a farm field. The cloak is a mantle of inspiration, a reflection of how Burns' life early life in Ayrshire inspired his poetry. Colla's mantle of inspiration summons Burns the ploughman to become Burns the poet.
The original sculptures were replaced by copies sculpted by Hermon Cawthra in 1936. They were installed as part of an effort to restore the mausoleum and were unveiled by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
The mausoleum is made of local red sandstone. Around 1880 the structure was painted bright white, with the dome a pale green. The base of the mausoleum is open on three sides, but each of these sides is now protected by an iron gate so that you can see within but cannot actually enter the building.During the 19th century the Dumfries Burns Club began a custom of laying a wreath at the mausoleum on Burns' birthday (25th January) and the custom continues to this day.
The Burns Mausoleum is listed Grade A for its heritage value.
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Peter von Ziegesar at the Modern, New York City, October 2019. Photography by j.e.syme all rights reerved
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podcast list - philosophy
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