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Josiah Bounderby, "the Bully of humility” in Charles Dickens's "Hard Times" (1854). #111Words #CharlesDickens #HardTimes #JosiahBounderby #Bully #Humility #Novel #Fiction #Interpretation #Ambiguity https://111-words.ghost.io/josiah-bounderby-the-bully-of-humility-in-charles-dickenss-hard-times-1854/

Josiah Bounderby, "the Bully of humility” in Charles Dickens's "Hard Times" (1854)

In Charles Dickens's "Hard Times" (1854), the banker Josiah Bounderby is dubbed "the Bully of humility" (the phraseseems to permeate the book but only comes up three times). I had always read this as referring to how Bounderby bullies others with his humble origins, and in a discussion on the

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Philosophics 1d ago

Any putative truths beneath or beyond truth-talk, apart from analytic or tautological cases, are not directly available to us except through mediated encounter, interpretation, and language.

I am going to make a concerted effort to quit using the word truth when I only mean truth-talk, the language translation of truth, to which we have no unmediated access.

https://substack.com/@brywillis634737/note/c-235187276?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=pvxh5

#philosophy #truth #blog #rhetoric #talk #language #interpretation

Niko Hendrickx 3d ago

https://pixelfed.de/p/nikohendrickx/943069525986443100

The emptiness of this version of the American flag is best left empty.

#Art #Symbolism #Minimalism #AmericanFlag #Interpretation #contemporaryart #VisualCulture

Niko Hendrickx (@[email protected])

Studio note (work in progress) #wip #studiopractice #transformation #contemporaryart #nikohendrickx #american #flag #workinprogress

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CBC Prince Edward Island 6d ago

Tours at this historic house in P.E.I. now include ASL interpretation
Staff at Beaconsfield in Charlottetown are working to make the historic house more inclusive for visitors. This spring, it's offering tours with American Sign Language interpretation for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community. CBC P.E.I. went to find out more.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7140762?cmp=rss

nationalparks Mar 19

Also from Yosemite National Park, this intriguing camera site shows Wawona Dome. For more information https://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm and https://yosemite.org/ and https://redwoodsinyosemite.com/wawona-webcam-in-yosemite/ and https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/granite.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit Yosemite Conservancy in collaboration with the Redwoods in Yosemite and the National Park Service #yosemite #cawx #winter #trees #california #wawona #sun #granite #nationalpark #geology #travel #glaciers

nationalparks Mar 17

Yosemite 1855 and Yosemite National Park today. For more information https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-acquires-early-yosemite-drawing-and-rare-1855-lithograph/s/3ff9d95c-fd4c-4570-bc8e-5196289c64cb and https://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm and https://yosemite.org/ and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit (1) Thomas Almond Ayres / Library of Congress and (2) Yosemite Conservancy and National Park Service #yosemite #cawx #winter #trees #california #yosemitefalls #sun #nationalpark #geology #nature #waterfall #history #loc #library #libraryofcongress #drawing #lithograph #art

nationalparks Mar 17

Mount Rainier National Park (View from Paradise on the 14th). Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/mora/index.htm and #mountrainier #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #winter #washington Image credit National Park Service #wawx #trees #mountain #paradise #clouds #snow #shadows

nationalparks Mar 11

Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park (current view, south Halema’uma’u crater). Image credit USGS/USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/havo/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm and https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo and #nps #nationalparks #interpretation #geology #usgs #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #hawaii #volcano #winter #research #eruption #crater #lava #color #observatory

Della Wren Mar 10

A simple event happens.

Two employees raise their voices in a meeting.

From there it can become:

“That was disrespectful.”
“This workplace is toxic.”
“This always happens to me.”

The event didn’t change.
The interpretation did.

Events do not contain interpretation. We add that layer ourselves.

#philosophy #interpretation #psychology

WIST Quotations Mar 9

A quotation from Montesquieu

No word has received more different significations and has struck minds in so many ways as has liberty.

[Il n’y a point de mot qui ait reçu plus de différentes significations, & qui ait frappé les esprits de tant de manieres, que celui de liberté.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 11, ch. 2 (11.2) (1748) tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/82621/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #freedom #interpretation #liberty #meaning #perspective #politicalscience

Montesquieu - Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 11, ch. 2 (11.2) (1748) tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)] | WIST Quotations

No word has received more different significations and has struck minds in so many ways as has liberty. [Il n’y a point de mot qui ait reçu plus de différentes significations, & qui ait frappé les esprits de tant de manieres, que celui de liberté.] (Source (French)). Other translations: There…

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