#thomas whitaker

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thru the power of fanfiction I can fix elijah heningbury

thomas on the other hand? he cannot be helped.

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Thomas Whitaker, from “Heningbury”

im uhm. im not sure what happened to me. i think i hauve covid.

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Typography Tuesday

Today we present Thomas Whitaker’s notable edition of the 14th-century allegorical poem, Piers Plowman, attributed to Robert (or William) Langland, and printed by Joseph Harding for the equally-notable London publishing house of John Murray. The poem first appeared in print in four 16th-century editions, and was not published again in its entirety until this 1813 printing.

The book is printed in red and black throughout, with exquisite wood-engraved initial letters and tail-pieces. Whitaker’s edition begins the modern editorial tradition for Piers Plowman. Either he or the publisher decided to present the Middle English verse in Gothic type with a modern paraphrase printed in a humanist font below. The choice of a Gothic typeface may have been nostalgic, or an attempt to imbue this expensive and weighty tome with an air of formality. Professor Sarah Kelen, author of chapter on the use of Gothic type for this edition in the book Illuminating Letters: Typography and Literary Interpretation (University of Massachusetts Press, 2001), speculates on the typographic choice:

The blackletter type Whitaker uses for his edition visibly antiquates Piers Plowman. This serves two purposes: it foregrounds the edition’s scholarly credentials in presenting the poem as an artifact of English literary history; and it distances the poem’s discomfiting Catholicism from England’s now (officially) Protestant public reading.

Gothic letter forms have a long tradition of being associated specifically with Christian (read Catholic) texts. All of the above -- nostalgia, distinction, antiquity, and distance -- are successfully achieved in this choice of typographic presentation, offering a reading and visual experience that can be attained in no other way.

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February 2010 … you are correct about being born with the wrong wiring. Some of us just don’t have things set up upstairs like everyone else. And here is the thing: sociopathy can be beaten. You just have to work out a different way of arriving at the same destination other people get to naturally. A simple example: say you see some poor wretch on the sidewalk, and feel the need to help this person. … but, I can arrive at the same action (giving money or coat), by designing a set of ethical rules, in this case, that in order for me to maintain my superiority, I am required to help those less fortunate. Whereas your action would depend on empathy, mine would depend on an internal rule. But the result would be the same.

The publicist who writes sociopaths to find out why they kill | New York Post

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