#bernard shaw

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Bernard Shaw - The Adventures of The Black Girl in Her Search for God - Constable & Company Limited - 1932 (designed and engraved by John Farleigh)

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Yanlış düşünebilirsin yanlış anlayabilirsin yanlış yapabilirsin ama yanlış hissedemezsin

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Birthplace

Dublin, Ireland -- 10/6/24

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Seni sessizken, sadece önemseyenler duyabilir.

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if Devil's Minion were healthy, we'd call it The Devil's Disciple

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9, 13, and 16 for the ask game pls

9. Favourite historical film?

Probably a tie between Howard’s End and Maurice. Another Country and Regeneration close tie for second. And then maybe Pollyanna.

13. Something random about some random historical person in a random era.

Freud sincerely thought Woodrow Wilson, the 28th United States President and architect of the League of Nations following WWI, was gay. Specifically, “a passive homosexual.” And also that Woodrow Wilson thought he himself was Christ and his father, Joseph Ruggles Wilson, was God.

Don’t believe me? Ask the Smithsonian: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-drove-sigmund-freud-write-scandalous-biography-woodrow-wilson-180970042/

What Drove Sigmund Freud to Write a Scandalous Biography of Woodrow Wilson?

The founder of psychoanalysis collaborated with a junior American diplomat to lambaste the former president

16. Do you own some historical item? ( coin, clothing, weapons, books, ect) If yes which one is your favourite?

Yes lol. 2 of note, a first (and only) edition of Piano Quartet by Edward Sackville-West (yes, *that* Sackville-West’s brother)

And then my favorite: A first edition, first printing of George Bernard Shaw’s “The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.” (Pictures below) It was given to me as a gag gift by a dear friend but I love and hate GBS so much and it’s a beautiful and extremely rare copy, so it’s a 10/10

But also my copies of Fanny Hill and Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Porn historian loves their historical porn, shocking, ik.

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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

人生とは、自分を見つけるためのものではない。自分自身を創るためのものである。

Bernard Shaw

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"Among the uncommon objects of the worldside, the most uncommon include persons who have reached the human limit of literary genius, and young men who have packed into the forepart of their lives an adventure of epic bulk and intensity. The odds against the occurrence of either must be much more than a million to one. But what figure can estimate the rarity of the person who combines the two? Yet the combination occurs in this amazing age of ours in which we sit holding our breaths as we await wholesale destruction at one another's hands. In Mr Apsley Cherry-Garrard's Worst Journey in the World we have a classic on Antarctic exploration written by a young man who endured it at its blackest. And within ten years of that we have "Colonel Lawrence" (the inverted commas are his own) appearing first in the war news from Arabia as a personage rather more incredible than Prester John, and presently emerging into clear definition as the author of one of the great histories of the world, recording his own conquests at an age at which young company officers are hardly allowed to speak at the mess table."

-Bernard Shaw, from a 1927 review of 'Revolt in the Desert', reproduced in 'Bernard Shaw's Nondramatic Literary Criticism' (Weintraub, 1972)