an incomplete guide to my silly little internal tagging system:
#studia felicitatis: personal stuff (pursuits & such) as well as Felix Mendelssohn.
#songs within words: music & poetry, pun on Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words.
#Herr Moses in Berlin: Moses Mendelssohn and particularly the 1979 biography & urban palimpsest by Heinz Knobloch, which I've translated and hope to see published in 2029. See also #die aufgabe des ausgrabers, a liveblog of my Comparative Literature thesis translation from spring 2025.
#übertrager übertreter: translation stuff. an approximate translation of the famous italian traduttore, traditore that attempts to keep the conceit of phonetic similarity but ultimately widens the gap in a self-demonstrative way :)
#sherb's sub sub library: books I've read and am interested in. From Moby-Dick; or, the Whale.
#not being on boats: boats & the ocean. Secondarily, death. From Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard.
#comings and goings of men: history and the past. From "Free in the Harbor" by Stan Rogers
#we catch our breath at the places where the breath was always caught: the transtemporal experience of being human. From The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard.
#sifting through centuries/for moments of our own: geology. Slightly modified from the song "Capricorn" by Vampire Weekend. Previous tags include #sherb's field notes and #the geology of it all
#now and then stab as occasion serves: fencing & swordfighting. From Edward II by Christopher Marlowe.
#who knows what we might have thought/in his place at his age: catholic guilt; monks & knights. From Nathan der Weise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
#23 years old/and nothing done for immortality: Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller. Current translation project.
#dr blochposting: Fish! From 18th-century ichthyologist and friend of Mendelssohn, Dr. Marcus Elieser Bloch.
#rhymes with thaumaturge: theater & dramaturgy. For plays I've been in, see #filicide fall (The Bacchae, Agave) and #by the art of known and feeling sorrows (King Lear, Edgar), and for a scene I've directed, #transgegmont (Egmont)
#sherb's birbs: birds
#once I dreamed I was a codicologist: manuscripts and art books. I did once dream of specializing in medieval codicology but the 18th century got me.
#death and her kin: ghosts and vampires and the like.
#fruits of the third coast: the Great Lakes region of the USA (where I'm from) & Canada.
#sherb's gender: affinity of presentation.
#I miss her: snow
#Bread. and. Soup.: Food. Bread and soup are my favorite foods.
#I love my classics friends dearly: I may not be a classicist but some of my mutuals are :)
#I love you friends who write in my books & #I love you all terribly: my infinite love for my friends. From my heart.
#you have some moral in this benedictus: Spinoza and the Pantheism Controversy. From Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare.
AND INTRODUCING...
#sylvan spring: As You Like It, which I'm acting in this semester. I'm playing Duke Frederick, which may incidentally lead me to creating a dedicated F2 tag.
