It steppit like a stallion,
Wha’s heid hauds up a horn,
And weel the men o’ Scotland kent
It was the unicorn…
—William Soutar (1898–1943), “Birthday”
Another poem for National Unicorn Day 🦄 🏴
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
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It’s hard to think that the earth is one –
This poor sad bearer of wars and disasters
Rolls-Roycing round the sun with its load of gangsters,
Attended only by the loveless moon.
—Norman MacCaig, “Stars and Planets”
published in The Poems of Norman MacCaig (Birlinn, 2009)
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G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled to Hollywood. But now, under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly loo...
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If in that Syrian garden, ages slain, You sleep, and know not you are dead in vain, Nor even in dreams behold how dark and bright Ascends in smoke and fire by day and night The hate you died to quench and could but fan, Sleep well and see no morning, son of man. But..
Her face was thrawed.
She wisna aa come.
In the trams o her airms
the wummin held oot her first bairn.
It micht hae been a mercat day
and him for sale…
—Alastair Mackie, “Pietà”
from The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse, @canongatebooks 2021
https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/
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George MacDonald Fraser on Desert Island Discs in 2001 – available on BBC Sounds
6/6
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009498m
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TIL that bronze is non-magnetic. I really ought to know this, so it will trigger a deep dive on the magnetic properties of various metals. I have a good general knowledge, but need to discover (and retain) the details.
Why, you ask? Well 19th/early 20th Century toy trains run on early electrical knowledge and technology. Understanding how and why things were made as they were is important for preservation and restoration.
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