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thebootydiaries

me: say it— i need to hear those three words

library database: Full Text Online

me, shedding tears: i love you too

delta-breezes

Spiced Mocha Coffee | Sincerely, Kinsey

boykeats

prompt (if you want to eh): love that makes bones melt.

if the moon burnslike a saint, then bodiesare only wild cloudscondensed enoughto appear like blood.& did you knowangels fly with wingbones of melted gold?& did you knowyour mouth is a shiningrelic in motion?

boykeats

prompt (if you want to eh): love that makes bones melt.

if the moon burnslike a saint, then bodiesare only wild cloudscondensed enoughto appear like blood.& did you knowangels fly with wingbones of melted gold?& did you knowyour mouth is a shiningrelic in motion?

athousandatoms13

wwctechlab

Those spines.

fredersen

all english teachers are either chaotic good or lawful evil

detroitlib

extracelestial

saying goodbye to the shop today, but many more photos to come. life in a bookshop, no. 21 photo by celeste noche

autumncozy

The Lodge at Gallow Green

nypl

Fun fact: Edith Wharton and Henry James had an amazing friendship. As their friendship grew, Wharton began to call James “Cherest Maitre,” while he called her things like “admirable Confrere” and “Princesse Rapprochee.” They discussed dinner party gossip, bummers like going to the dentist, and, of course, writing. We want to see if you can tell which literary bud wrote these gorgeous lines.

virgoprivilege

hey just a wee thing if you’re an aspiring creator of historical fiction like moi

if you’ve ever sat down to write your story and thought ‘ok but what is the historical backdrop for these characters on this particular month, or this day, in this country, in this city’

the british newspaper archive [link] has literally millions of archived newspaper pages going all the way back to the 1700s

so if you’re like me and thinking ‘ok but what was going on in edinburgh in may 1914??’ this archive has got you covered, pal

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thoodleoo

ancient greek words about goats

Αἰγίπλαγκτος: wandered over by goats

αἴγοτριψ: trodden by goats

αἰγίς: goatskin

αἰγιάζω: to talk of goats

αἰγόπλαστος: goat-shaped

αἰγοδίωξ:goat-pursuing

αἰπόλιον: herd of goats

γράσος: smell of a goat

τραγοπώγων: having a goat’s beard

αἰπολέω: to tend goats

thoodleoo

ancient greek word of the day: αἰγίλιψ, “devoid of goats; hence, incredibly steep, to the point that not even goats can climb it”

uispeccoll

Nicolas Appert (1750-1841) was a French chef, distiller, and “the Father of Canning.” As the story goes, in 1795, the French military offered a 12,000 francs cash prize to whoever could invent the best way to conserve and transport food. For 14 years, Appert experimented with various methods before successfully sealing glass jars with cork, wax, and wire, by submerging them in boiling water. Appert won the 12,000 francs in 1810. He used the money to open the House of Appert, a commercial cannery at Massy that operated from 1812 to 1933. As the prizewinner, Appert was required to publish his preserving methods. L’Art de conserver, pendant plusieurs années, toutes les substances animales et végétales (The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances for Several Years) was first printed in 1810 and thereafter was quickly translated into several languages.

Chef Louis Szathmary collected several copies of Appert’s Art of Preserving. Our French copy is a second edition printed in 1813, the English version from 1812, and the German from 1811. I arranged the photos in groups of three with the French at the top, English bottom left, and German bottom right. All three books are wonderful examples of national printing and binding styles. A close look at the recipe for preserving “pêches“ or “peaches” or “Pfirsiche“ shows us that Appert’s French descriptors for peach varieties are maintained across translations. The final image is Appert’s signature at the end of his note to the reader in the second edition.

French, TX603 .A6 1813 English, TX603 .A613 1812 German, TX603 .A615 1811 -Jillian