This is the place where I share what I like, from the books I am reading to art and political criticism.
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Aesthete — lover of beauty.
This is the place where I share what I like, from the books I am reading to art and political criticism.
This is the place where I share what I like, from the books I am reading to art and political criticism.
A highly biased account of the Byzantine court of Emperor Justinian and his consort, Empress Theodora. A tale of two powerful men — the Emperor and his General, Belisarius — who are portrayed as spineless and under the thumb of their "nymphomaniac" wives. Filled with political vitriol and graphic scenes of torture from the start.
This was quite a foggy morning 🌁. Of all the weather types fog sits in the middle of the venn diagram of eerie and evocative.
Photo: Jan 2026
Morning sky so blue /
Jackdaw flies, much tweeting /
Stillness all around.
The plaque, which commemorates the origins of the railings, has been installed - the original was "lost" by the university following the construction of this new social science block.
Photo: 17 Dec 2025
Spotted this fantastic mural by the legendary street artist, Phelgm.
Secondhand book purchases made a few months ago:
Lysistrata: play where women withhold sex to force men to end war.
Acharnians: a farmer makes private peace in Peloponnesian War satire.
Clouds: satire of Socrates, sophistry, and education.
Later Caesars: Bios. of 3rd–4th c. Roman emperors, gossip-filled.
This is a fascinating analysis on the gradual development of medieval thought focusing on particular on the rise of the ascending theory of governance and how mediaeval thought far from being fossilised and an antiquarian provides the genetic link modern notions of democracy and civic rights.
