Sagacious Man

For this whole movement I had the feeling that I was being given a beating by two incredibly intelligent people.

Eduard Hanslick - reviewing Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 arranged for two pianos, played by Brahms and Ignaz Brüll

2 weeks ago -

1

If the illustrations in the book you’re seen reading are called ‘plates’ instead of ‘figures’, you’re doing it right.

Me

2 weeks ago -

2

If you travel abroad, be sure to teach your children some words in the local language like bitte, danke, and Gesamtkunstwerk.

Me

1 month ago

Lots of pumice falling down,
falling down, falling down,
Lots of pumice falling down,
Pliny the Elder can’t breath.

I wouldn’t sail your boat that way,
boat that way, boat that way,
I wouldn’t sail your boat that way,
Pliny the Elder can’t breath.

…

Sagacious Man Jr.

1 month ago

Modular Bookshelves

This episode of The WoodWright’s Shop with Roy Underhill shows you how to build a modular bookcase so you can pull your shelf of Tom Clancy and replace it with a shelf of Rousseau when your friends are coming over. Check it out.

1 month ago

Precursors of April Fools’ Day include the Roman festival of Hilaria, held March 25

Best festival name ever.

1 month ago

I love the understatement of scholars:

“Hardly anything is known of Antinous’ life, and the fact that our sources get more detailed the later they are does not inspire confidence.”

1 month ago

No trip to Chicago is complete without picking up some books you might read in the 2020s.

Me

1 month ago

I would never admit to googling myself, nor should you. A gentleman schoogles himself with google scholar.

Me

2 months ago

Anonymous asked: Mt. Vesuvius is spewing forth, spewing forth, spewing forth. Mt. Vesuvius is spewing forth, but Pliny was not buried.

+3

2 months ago