#st m/b discourse

[autistic-katara]

ATTENTION BYLER/MILEVEN TUMBLR

me and @kl125 were talking abt how ppl keep tagging the ship theyre making anti-that ship content of and the conversation went to wanting to discuss stuff with the other ship w/o being disrespectful and came up with the idea for a tag for that.

the tag is #st m/b discourse and we havent fully discussed everything abt the tag (that should probably be a wider fandom discussion tbh not just one person from either ship) but what i was thinking was if u make a post talking abt idk byler/mileven proof or an analysis of one of the ships or yk stuff like that and u wanna invite a discussion from the other ship so ur not just in an echochamber but u dont wanna tag their ship cause thats disrespectful asf ud tag that (aswell as whatever ship ur talking positively abt/not talking negatively abt for lack of better words) and ud still do the whole censoring the name of the other ship and not tagging them to respect the ppl who just wanna enjoy their ship but for the ppl that want a discussion who might be scrolling through and/or following the tag they might see ur post and want to say smthn.

now if ur gonna use this tag/look through this tag i’m gonna ask that ur gonna be respectful to eachother and eachother’s ships. we want this to be a place for discussion so ppl who dont wanna live in an echochamber of their opinions but dont know how to do so respectfully otherwise can talk to ppl with different opinions or yk ppl who want their views challenged or whatever this is NOT for arguing on why “we’re sooooo obviously gonna be endgame and u guys r gonna end up broken up and heartbroken HA” or whatever (u wanna post that post it in the anti tag not this one) and no bigotry (homophobic, sexism, ableism, etc.) to either the characters or real people and yeah i hope this was worded ok. if ur confused abt smthn just ask and yeah pls use this tag on analysis posts that ud like a discussion in or polls or just posts asking for a discussion or yk anything like that :) also if u regularly post/rb byler/mileven content pls rb this/make ur own post abt it c:

tagging some Byler accs (kl125 is tagging Milevens // probably forgot someone big but whatever): @strangertheories @pinkeoni @willthewise7 @heroesbyler @weirdo09 @will80sbyers @henrysglock @theirgreenlove @bugisawesomeasf @nances @elhaspowers @gayofthefae @chirpsythismorning @byler-alarmist

[miaisagirllover]

give me reasons for mileven endgame

yes i’ve already made this post but now imma use the new st m/b discourse tag

so mileven nation, yall got any proof beyond “they love eachother” or “watch the show”?

[kl125]

(Copy and pasting this from @mike-queerler)

“ATTENTION BYLER/MILEVEN TUMBLR

me and @mike-queerler were talking abt how ppl keep tagging the ship theyre making anti-that ship content of and the conversation went to wanting to discuss stuff with the other ship w/o being disrespectful and came up with the idea for a tag for that.

the tag is #st m/b discourse and we havent fully discussed everything abt the tag (that should probably be a wider fandom discussion tbh not just one person from either ship) but what i was thinking was if u make a post talking abt idk byler/mileven proof or an analysis of one of the ships or yk stuff like that and u wanna invite a discussion from the other ship so ur not just in an echochamber but u dont wanna tag their ship cause thats disrespectful asf ud tag that (aswell as whatever ship ur talking positively abt/not talking negatively abt for lack of better words) and ud still do the whole censoring the name of the other ship and not tagging them to respect the ppl who just wanna enjoy their ship but for the ppl that want a discussion who might be scrolling through and/or following the tag they might see ur post and want to say smthn.

now if ur gonna use this tag/look through this tag i’m gonna ask that ur gonna be respectful to eachother and eachother’s ships. we want this to be a place for discussion so ppl who dont wanna live in an echochamber of their opinions but dont know how to do so respectfully otherwise can talk to ppl with different opinions or yk ppl who want their views challenged or whatever this is NOT for arguing on why “we’re sooooo obviously gonna be endgame and u guys r gonna end up broken up and heartbroken HA” or whatever (u wanna post that post it in the anti tag not this one) and no bigotry (homophobic, sexism, ableism, etc.) to either the characters or real people and yeah i hope this was worded ok. if ur confused abt smthn just ask and yeah pls use this tag on analysis posts that ud like a discussion in or polls or just posts asking for a discussion or yk anything like that :) also if u regularly post/rb byler/mileven content pls rb this/make ur own post abt it c:”

Now for my part: I’m all about sharing ideas and opinions and creating a safe fandom space. I know we’re in a dip right now in terms of fandom content (as we wait for Season Five), and at least for the mileven fandom, we’re not that active, but I’d love to kickstart something in a positive way. This back and forth is quite exhausting, and I don’t want it to get in the way of healthy fandom discourse. Let me know if you don’t want to be tagged in this. @purpleangelsele @flamingfalcon3 @claire-de-lune @pjo-worshipper @fricchead @crisperia @drukkaris-blog @reganx2 @thinkingaboutmileven @kand1corn @teafiend @dxncingwithastrxnger @truessences @rllybritrlly

[finnickodaiir]

Shout-out to Lumax and Elmax shippers for being able to coexist without fighting, you are all doing great

[neon-persimmon]

I have just started half watching season 4 and I got to tell you ‘Mike only liked el because of her super powers and that’s it’ really sort of sucks. Maybe I’m just not far enough in.

[mogai-sunflowers]

/ d/n''t m//n t/ br/ng /p d/sc//rs/ b/t d/ y// th/nk th/t p//pl/ w/th /dhd c/n s/y th/ r sl/r?? /t''s /n / s/ng / l/k/,, /nd / j/st w/nt t/ kn/w /f / c/n s/ng th/ lyr/cs..

I don't mean to bring up discourse but do you think that people with adhd can say the r slur? It's in a song I like, and I just want to know if I can sing the lyrics.

honestly i don't really care much for slur reclamation discourse, i think it's kind of silly and pointless. if you've been actually victimized by it then yeah, reclaim it, say it. i don't think there's any need to feel bad for saying a word you've been victimized by.

[thelivesofthesaints]

January 31 - St. Peter Nolasco - 1258 A.D

From Chronica Sacri et Militaris Ordinis B. M. de Mercede, per Bern. de Vargas, ej. Ord. 2 vol. in fol Panormi, 1622, and by John de Latomis in 12mo. in 1621, and especially the Spanish history of the same by Alonso Roman, 2 vol. fol. at Madrid, in 1618, and the life of the saint compiled in Italian by F Francis Olihano, in 4to. 1668. See also Baillet, and Hist. des Ordres Relig. par Helyot, and Hist de l’Ordre de Notre Dame de la Merci, par les RR. Pères de la Merci, de la Congregation de Paris, fol. printed at Amiens, in 1685.

Peter, of the noble family of Nolasco, in Languedoc, was born in the diocese of St. Papoul, about the year 1189. His parents were very rich, but far more illustrious for their virtue. Peter, while an infant, cried at the sight of a poor man, till something was given him to bestow on the object of his compassion. In his childhood he gave to the poor whatever he received for his own use. He was exceeding comely and beautiful; but innocence and virtue were his greatest ornaments. It was his pious custom to give a very large alms to the first poor man he met every morning, without being asked. He rose at midnight, and assisted at matins in the church, as then the more devout part of the laity used to do, together with all the clergy. At the age of fifteen he lost his father, who left him heir to a great estate: and he remained at home under the government of his pious mother, who brought him up in extraordinary sentiments and practices of virtue. Being solicited to marry, he betook himself to the serious consideration of the vanity of all earthly things; and rising one night full of those thoughts, prostrated himself in fervent prayer, which he continued till morning, most ardently devoting himself to God in the state of celibacy, and dedicating his whole patrimony to the promoting of his divine honor. He followed Simon of Montfort, general of the holy war against the Albigenses, an heretical sect, which had filled I anguedoc with great cruelties, and overspread it with universal desolation. That count vanquished them, and in the battle of Muret defeated and killed Peter, king of Aragon, and took his son James prisoner, a child of six years old. The conqueror having the most tender regard and compassion for the prince his prisoner, appointed Peter Nolasco, then twenty-five years old, his tutor, and sent them both together into Spain. Peter, in the midst of the court of the king at Barcelona, 608 where the kings of Aragon resided, led the life of a recluse, practising the austerities of a cloister. He gave no part of his time to amusements, but spent all the moments which the instruction of his pupil left free, in holy prayer, meditation, and pious reading. The Moors at that time were possessed of a considerable part of Spain, and great numbers of Christians groaned under their tyranny in a miserable slavery both there and in Africa, Compassion for the poor had always been the distinguishing virtue of Peter The sight of so many moving objects in captivity, and the consideration of the spiritual dangers to which their faith and virtue stood exposed under heir Mahometan masters, touched his heart to the quick, and he soon spent his whole estate in redeeming as many as he could. Whenever he saw any poor Christian slaves, he used to say: “Behold eternal treasures which never fail.” By his discourses he moved others to contribute large alms towards this charity, and at last formed a project for instituting a religious Order for a constant supply of men and means whereby to carry on so charitable an undertaking. This design met with great obstacles in the execution. but the Blessed Virgin, the true mother of mercy, appearing to St. Peter, the king, and St. Raymund of Pennafort, in distinct visions the same night, encouraged them to prosecute the holy scheme under the assurance of her patronage and protection. St. Raymund was the spiritual

director both of St. Peter and of the king, and a zealous promoter of this charitable work. The king declared himself the protector of the Order, and assigned them a large quarter of his own palace for their abode. All things being settled for laying the foundation of it, on the feast of St. Laurence, in the year 1223, the king and St. Raymund conducted St. Peter to the church and presented him to Berengarius, the bishop of Barcelona, who received his three solemn religious vows, to which the saint added a fourth, to devote his whole substance and his very liberty, if necessary, to the ransoming of slaves; the like vow he required of all his followers. St. Raymund made an edifying discourse on the occasion, and declared from the pulpit, in the presence of this august assembly, that it had pleased Almighty God to reveal to the king, to Peter Nolasco, and to himself, his will for the institution of an Order for the redemption of the faithful, detained in bondage among the infidels. This was received by the people with the greatest acclamations of joy, happy presages of the future success of the holy institute. 609 After this discourse, St. Peter received the new habit (as Mariana and pope Clement VIII. in his bull say) from St. Raymund, who established him first general of this new Order, and drew up for it certain rules and constitutions. Two other gentlemen were professed at the same time with St. Peter. When St. Raymund went to Rome, he obtained from pope Gregory IX., in the year 1225, the confirmation of this Order, and on the rule and constitutions he had drawn up. He wrote an account of this from Rome to St. Peter, informing him how well pleased his Holiness was with the wisdom and piety of the institute. The religious chose a white habit, to put them continually in mind of innocence: they wear a scapular, which is likewise white: but the king would oblige them, for his sake, to bear the royal arms of Aragon, which are interwoven on their habit upon the breast. Their numbers increasing very fast, the saint petitioned the king for another house; who, on this occasion, built for them, in 1232, a magnificent convent at Barcelona. 610

King James having conquered the kingdom of Valencia, founded in it several rich convents; one was in the city of Valencia, which was taken by the aid of the prayers of St. Peter, when the soldiers had despaired of success, tired out by the obstinacy of the besieged and strength of the place. In thanksgiving for this victory, the king built the rich monastery in the royal palace of Uneza, near the same city, on a spot where an image of our Lady was dug up, which is still preserved in the church of this convent and is famous for pilgrimages. It is called the monastery of our Lady of mercy del Puche. 611 That prince attributed to the prayers of Saint Peter thirty great victories which he obtained over the infidels, and the entire conquest of the two kingdoms of Valencia and Murcia. St. Peter, after his religious profession, renounced all his business at court, and no entreaties of the king could ever after prevail with him to appear there but once, and this was upon a motive of charity to reconcile two powerful noblemen, who by their dissension had divided the whole kingdom, and kindled a civil war. The saint ordained that two members of the Order should be sent together among the infidels, to treat about the ransom of Christian slaves, and they are hence called Ransomers. One of the two first employed in this pious work was our saint; and the kingdom of Valencia was the first place that was blessed with his labors; the second was that of Granada. He not only comforted and ransomed a great number of captives, but by his charity and other rare virtues, was the happy instrument of inducing many of the Mahometans to embrace the faith of Christ. He made several other journeys to the coasts of Spain, besides a voyage to Algiers, where, among other sufferings, he underwent imprisonment for the faith. But the most terrifying dangers could never make him desist from his pious endeavors for the conversion of the infidels, burning with a holy desire of martyrdom. He begged earnestly of his Order to be released from the burden of his generalship: but by his tears could only obtain the grant of a vicar to assist him in the discharge of it. He employed himself in the meanest offices of his convent, and coveted above all things to have the distribution of the daily alms at the gate of the monastery: he at the same time instructed the poor in the knowledge of God and in virtue. St. Louis IX. of France wrote frequently to him, and desired much to see him. The saint waited on him in Languedoc, in the year 1243, and the king, who tenderly embraced him, requested him to accompany him in his expedition to recover the Holy Land. St. Peter earnestly desired it, but was hindered by sickness, with which he was continually afflicted during the last years of his life, the effect of his fatigues and austerities, and he bore it with incomparable patience. In 1249, he resigned the offices of Ransomer and General, which was six or seven years before his death. This happened on Christmas-day, in 1256. In his agony, he tenderly exhorted his religious to perseverance, and concluded with those words of the psalmist: Our Lord hath sent redemption to his people; he hath commanded his covenant forever. 612 He then recommended his soul to God by that charity with which Christ came from heaven to redeem us from the captivity of the devil, and melting into tears of compunction and divine love, he expired, being in the sixty-seventh year of his age. His relics are honored by many miracles. He was canonized by pope Urban VIII. His festival was appointed by Clement VIII. to be kept on the 31st of January.

Charity towards all mankind was a distinguishing feature in the character of the saints. This benevolent virtue so entirely possessed their hearts, that they were constantly disposed to sacrifice even their lives to the relief and assistance of others. Zealously employed in removing their temporal necessities, they labored with redoubled vigor to succor their spiritual wants by rooting out from their souls the dominion of sin, and substituting in its room the kingdom of God’s grace. Ingratitude and ill-treatment, which was the return they frequently met with for their charitable endeavors, were not able to allay their ardent zeal: they considered men on these occasions as patients under the pressure of diseases, more properly the object of compassion than of resentment. They recommended them to God in their private devotions, and earnestly besought his mercy in their favor. This conduct of the saints, extraordinary as it is, ceases to appear surprising when we recollect the powerful arguments our Blessed Saviour made use of to excite us to the love of our neighbor. But how shall we justify our unfeeling hard-heartedness, that seeks every trifling pretence to exempt us from the duty of succoring the unfortunate? Have we forgot that Jesus Christ our Redeemer, who alone hath bestowed on us whatever we possess, hath made charity towards our fellow-creature, but especially towards the needy, an indispensable precept? Do we not know that he bids us consider the suffering poor as members of the same head, heirs of the same promises, as our brethren and his children who represent him on earth? He declares, that whatever we bestow upon them he will esteem it as given to himself; and pledges his sacred word that he will reward our alms with an eternity of bliss. Such motives, says St. Chrysostom, would be sufficient to touch a heart of stone: but there is something still more cogent, continues the same holy father, which is, that the same Jesus Christ, whom we refuse to nourish in the persons of the poor, feeds our souls with his precious body and blood. If such considerations move not our hearts to commiserate and assist the indigent, what share of mercy and relief can we hope for in the hour of need? Oh, incomprehensible blindness! we perhaps prepare for ourselves an eternal abyss, by those very means which, properly applied, would secure us the conquest of a kingdom which will never have an end. 613

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Monday, October 25th

CORDELIA: It was a nightmare, a total nightmare! I mean, they promised me they'd take me to St. Croix, and then they just decide to go to Tuscany. Art and buildings? I was totally beachless for a month and a half. No one has suffered like I have. Of course I think that that kind of adversity builds character. Well, then I thought, I already have a lot of character. Is it possible to have too much character?

~~When She Was Bad~~

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[feliciamontagues]

adhd father brown hcs??? sign me tf up!

Okay, so I’ve had most of these thoughts/interpretations for awhile but I was not expecting to morph into such a ginormous post

A few caveats before we begin.

1) Obviously due to the period drama setting, Father Brown would likely never be officially diagnosed as having ADHD, as the disorder as we know it today only started to be seriously studied in the 1970s.  Furthermore as I mentioned before, I head canon him as having either the “primarily inattentive” (what used to be called/separately diagnosed as ADD) or the “combined”  subtype of ADHD , which  statistically  fly under the radar more  than those with more “hyperactive” symptoms. 

2) I don’t think he is intentionally written and/or performed as ADHD-coded and I don’t expect canon will ever  “confirm this.” A LOT of character types/ tropes in fiction have developed around characters that display neurodiverse  symptoms that may not be immediately obvious to neurotypical content producers or consumers. In particular the “brilliant-but-lazy” and/or “charmingly eccentric” character shows up frequently in detective fiction.  (Other examples: Hercule Poirot is pretty regularly interpreted as having OCD and Sherlock Holmes as having ADHD and/or autism spectrum disorder). 

3) There’s a bit of discourse about the word “neurodiverse” and who should be “allowed” to claim it. Some people consider it a term that should be exclusively used to describe  people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, most experts believe that “neurodiversity” encompasses a much wider umbrella that also includes ADHD, OCD, Tourettes/tics, dyslexia, PTSD, various sensory and processing disorders, and more in addition to ASD. 

For the purpose of this, we will be using the word in the broader, more inclusive sense that includes ADHD and other similar disorders.  We will also be using terms such as “special interest,” “hyperfixation,” “comfort object,”  “stim/stimming” , etc that are more commonly associated with ASD--but that are also present in many individuals with ADHD. 

Now to the main event. (below the cut because it’s really long.) Also feel free to comment or add to this post.

Father Brown & ADHD (head canons, symptoms, and interpretations)

He is absent-minded and easily distracted, especially when it comes to mundane day-to-day tasks.  I can’t even begin to count the number of times Mrs. M has to remind him to eat, sleep, clean, have something repaired,  and/or do paperwork And it’s pretty strongly implied that the squad’s interventions (and especially Mrs. M) are just about the only thing keeping him on task.

Special mention has to go to the time where he just straight-up LEFT MASS in the middle of his homily, because he’d suddenly thought of a potential lead for the case and needed to investigate it immediately.  (”The Jackdaw’s Revenge”)

Another special mention has to go to the sizable pile of overdue library books that he’s supposedly “been meaning to take back for ages” but kept forgetting. In this same scene, Mrs. M specifically refers to him as a “hoarder.”  (“The Lepidopterist's Companion”)

He is fairly observant when hyperfocusing and tends to notice details and inconsistencies that others might not. He’s also very good at making surprising and unexpected “bigger picture” connections. He’s also more likely to consider multiple possible theories at once rather than focusing on the most likely, obvious one (as the inspectors do). 

His permanent special interests are mysteries and theology. Interestingly, his theology interest extends beyond Christianity/Catholicism--as he is also very knowledgeable and curious about several other religions/denominations/ways of practicing faith, as well as atheism and more generalized spirituality. He was even willing to give Kalon’s “so -obviously-a-cult-and-not-even-a-cool-one” organization a fair shake at first. 

In addition to his permanent special interests, he is also very curious in general about a lot of  different things and will often develop brief-but-strong interests in something pertaining to the case of the week. 

He stims primarily by riding his bike everywhere. The fact he loves his bike enough to name it (”Bucephalus” after Alexander the Great’s horse) suggests that it may also be a comfort object for him.

His other major stims are eating (more about that later) and touching his umbrella.

Speaking of his umbrella, a decent case could be made for it as a comfort object.” Father Brown takes it with him whenever he needs to leave St. Mary’s/the presbytery, even on occasions where he’s unlikely to encounter rain. The few times he is separated from his umbrella we are meant to see this a really big deal.  His lending Flambeau his umbrella in “The Judgement of Man” is presented as a gesture of true kindness and friendship. When Father B. is forced to leave his umbrella behind in “The Whistle in the Dark,” Bunty immediately buys him a new one. 

His two biggest vices are his tendency to overeat (especially his love for sweet things) and his interest in listening to the horse races. Fortunately, neither of these things has become a big problem as of yet (especially as he’s content to listen to the races without betting on them and has Mrs. M to stop him from eating too much sugary treats). However, it is worth noting that people with ADHD are especially susceptible to overeating,  gambling, and other addiction problems, as they are constantly seeking stimulation.

His relationship with Rejection Sensitivity is  somewhat unique. Because he has such a strong support system, he seems to handle personal rejection fairly well. However, his RSD  still manifests in terms of redeeming others. He seems to hold himself personally accountable for every soul he is unable to save.  This may explain why he is so tenacious when trying to getting people to confess and repent their wrongdoing. We see this particularly strongly with Katharine Corven (which was always a lost cause) and with Flambeau (who he’s had much more success). 

Father Brown  quickly forms strong bonds with other characters who are canonically identified as being neurodivergent.  Examples of this include: Lucia Galloway (dyslexia) from “The Face of Death,”  Jeremy (brain alterations  due to a childhood automobile accident)  and Sarah Mulgrew (ambiguous disorder but shows possible signs of PTSD and autism )  from “The Maddest of All,” and Arthur Malmont (ambiguous disorder but possibly autism and/or another developmental disorder) from “The Labyrinth of the Minotaur.” 

In “The Maddest of All,” Father Brown is admitted to a mental institution as he is showing signs of “impulse-control disorder.” While he is largely exaggerating his symptoms so that he can be admitted and investigate, it makes sense for him to simply exaggerate symptoms and tendencies that already exist rather than completely “fake” a different type of disorder entirely. During his evaluation with the doctor, he even admits to overeating and kleptomanic tendencies--both habits  that Fr. Brown partakes on a fairly regular basis even when he isn’t “faking.” (Granted the kleptomania is usually just clues for a case or deserts left unattended, but it’s still worth commenting on). 

[autistic-katara]

this is both incredibly interesting and exactly what i was expecting

the overwhelming majority of milevens have never even questioned that their ship might not be endgame vs bylers having been mostly doubtful in the past but been convinced

hmm…

ok more of me trying to figure out the logic of this fandom

praying this actually reaches the other side of the fandom but yk-

if u voted pls rb with why + feel free to discuss in the replies

[skgway]

1824 Sept., Sun. 5

7 55/60

12 1/2

At 10 1/2 set off with Mrs. and Miss Mackenzie and Mrs. Barlow to our ambassador’s chapel in the Rue St. Honoré – Service to begin at 11 1/2 – Obliged to go so early to get seats – The room nearly full when we got there –

Quite different from where my aunt and I went in 1819 – Merely a large room in our ambassador’s hotel, full of chairs ranged across it from top to bottom – No regular pulpit – No clerk – We, the congregation muttered the responses – Our ambassador, an insignificant, unimportant, rather shabbyish sort of looking little man, followed his chaplain, Mr. Foster, who preached 20 minutes (a moral discourse – well enough) from 1. 14. Ecclesiastes, or Ticus – That Solomon had tried all things, and found them vanity and vexation of spirit – 

Looked round, but saw not our face I knew, till, about 1/2 hour after us, entered Mr. Strickland (George junior) of Hildenly, and his wife – They were obliged to sit separately – When we had walked 1/2 way back Mrs. Mackenzie (Mrs. Barlow staid the sacrament) grew nervous about crossing the street, on account of the carriages, and called a dirty fiacre for which she paid 30 solidis, and which brought us all home – 

Mrs. M– [Mackenzie] had had no coffee this morning – Could get none – She and Mrs. Barlow had gone to complain to Madame de B– [Boyve]. We had no sooner got back, then we had it all over – I heard the whole; for Madame de B– [Boyve] took me aside and explained – Monsieur came in to us – Would have her turn away the cook and housemaid, etc. etc. 

I slank away here to my room, and little after 2, and here have I been quietly writing the 2 last pages and so far of this which has taken me till 4 1/4 – Thought I to myself, I have nothing to do with it – I had my breakfast very comfortably this morning – 2 rolls, 2 small pitchers of boiled milk, and plenty of butter – 

Dinner at 5 3/4 – Mrs. Mackenzie and Mrs. Barlow having each a headache, did not come down to dinner, the latter went upstairs from [the] table not to appear in the drawing room – Had a good deal of conversation with Mr. Brande – He says, he has had little time to attend to anything but his professor – and this appears – speaking of the cabinet d’anatomie at the Jardin des Plantes, he has not had time to see it. 

But Mr. Green of St. Thomas’s hospital London nephew to Mr. Cline, says, our preparations at Surgeon’s Hall are better, but the name of Cuvier does everything – and that the subjects at the Ecole de médicine, tho’ done like everything else in France to look well, and take with the public, yet are not well “mounted” I think was the expression – Not well put together – And Mr. Green is a very rising man in his profession, and a very good judge – 

Frederic Accum’s father came over (from Germany I suppose) to be an assistant or apprentice to Mr. Brande’s father and Mr. B– [Brande] knew a great deal of Frederic A– [Accum] now doing well at Berlin – Mr. B– [Brande] not surprised at his conduct in stealing leaves from the Royal institution banks – All had writings superficial – In short his character was well exprest by the name of Quackem – 

A soirée in the evening – A lady, and her daughter? # and a young man really gentlemanly, tho’ a little priggishly dandyish, and Messers Sorteval whom we had last night, Phillip, and Bellevue, a diminutive rather deformed man but gentlemanly. Speaks French beautifully and intelligibly and I liked him the best of the 4 gents – 

The elderly lady played ecarté the whole evening with Monsieur Sorteval, or Monsieur Bellevue – The rest of us sat round the drawing room table had a little lottery or 2, and different sorts of games, et Les Questions – Yet there was not much conversation or play made, and such a party would have been called stupid in England – Thought I, if I could speak French as well as English, I could improve all this, if I chose, and make the thing pleasanter – 

The English crept away early – Soon after 10 – and I came upstairs at 10 55/60 and left the French to talk us over – Madame de B[oyve] evidently likes  me she praises the questions and answers I write and is very civil. I am certainly attentive to her with that something of flattery of manner [she] is not used to from ladies. I could make my way if I could speak better – 

I could make my way, if I could speak better, and am in better hope about it tonight – In mannerism, I have certainly the advantage of all our English party – The case, I feel, 1/2 surprises myself – 

Very fine day – Fahrenheit 74º at 11 p.m. – 1/2 hour writing the last 22 1/2 lines which took me till 12 struck by Saint Roch, I suppose it is –

[sideways in margin] # Mrs. Kidd and her daughter Miss Beresford and the young lady’s adorateur § Monsier Deismac. Wednesday afternoon 27 April 1825

[Views of medical Paris in the 1850s, as found in Tableau de Paris by Edmond Texier]

l’École de médecine de Paris

Intérieur du cabinet d’anatomie comparée

La galerie d’anatomie comparée.

[orthodoxydaily]

Saints&Reading: Thu., June 20, 2019

Hieromartyr Methodius

The Hieromartyr Methodius, Bishop of Patara (Lycia in Asia Minor), was distinguished for his genuine monastic humility. Calmly and with mildness he instructed his flock, but he firmly defended the purity of Orthodoxy and he energetically contended against heresies, especially the widespread heresy of the Origenists. He left behind him a rich literary legacy: works in defense of Christianity against paganism, explications of Orthodox dogmas against the heresy of Origen, moral discourses, and explanations of Holy Scripture.

St Methodius was arrested by the pagans, steadfastly confessed before them his faith in Christ, and he was sentenced to death by beheading in the year 312.

St Nicholas Cabasilas

Nicholas Cabasilas, (born c. 1320, Thessalonica, Byzantine Empire—died c. 1390), Greek Orthodox lay theologian and liturgist who eminently represents the tradition of Byzantine theology. He wrote extensively on Hesychast mysticism (a traditional method of Byzantine Christian contemplative prayer that integrates vocal and bodily exercises) and on the theology of Christian life and worship.

In the Byzantine civil war between the rival emperors John V Palaeologus (1341–91) and John VI Cantacuzenus (1347–54), Cabasilas sided with Cantacuzenus’ more conservative policies, performing several diplomatic missions and supporting the positions of the theologian Gregory Palamas (1296–1359). Cabasilas’ work Commentary on the Divine Liturgy is one of the foremost explanations of Christian sacramental worship that exist.

Cabasilas’ chief spiritual–ascetical writing, Life in Christ, proposed a program of Christian spirituality integrating divine and human activity in both individual and common liturgical prayer. By essays and political involvement he manifested a social consciousness relative to economic and institutional (including the church) inequities. The high intellectual level of his conferences and sermons and the sensitivity of his religious poetry have gained an international audience. Encyclopedia Britannica

St Gleb

After Sviatopolk had killed Boris, he sent Gleb a message saying that their father was ill and wished to see him. As he was on his way, he received word that their father had died and that Sviatopolk had murdered Boris.

St Gleb wept for his father and brother, and was lamenting them when the assassins arrived. They seized his boat and drew their weapons, but it was Gleb's cook who stabbed him with a knife.

The martyr's body was thrown onto the shore between two trees. Later, he was buried beside St Boris in the church of St Basil. He is also commemorated on September 5....Read More OCA

Rom 1:28-2:9 NKJV

8 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, [a]sexual immorality, wickedness, [b]covetousness, [c]maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they arewhisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 [d]undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, [e]unforgiving, unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.

God’s Righteous Judgment

2 Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. 2 But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things. 3 And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But in accordance with your hardness and your [f]impenitent heart you are [g]treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who “will render to each one according to his deeds”: 7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the [h]Greek;

Footnotes:

Romans 1:29 NU omits sexual immorality

Romans 1:29 greed

Romans 1:29 malice

Romans 1:31 without understanding

Romans 1:31 NU omits unforgiving

Romans 2:5 unrepentant

Romans 2:5 storing

Romans 2:9 Gentile

9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the [a]Greek;

Footnotes:

Romans 2:9 Gentile

Matt 5:27-32

Adultery in the Heart

27 “You have heard that it was said [a]to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to[b]sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to [c]sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

Marriage Is Sacred and Binding

31 “Furthermore it has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except [d]sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.

Footnotes:

Matthew 5:27 NU, M omit to those of old

Matthew 5:29 Lit. stumble or offend

Matthew 5:30 Lit. stumble or offend

Matthew 5:32 Or fornication

New King James Version (NKJV) Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. @biblegateway

[thesinglesjukebox]

BILLIE EILISH - BAD GUY

[6.93]

The Jukebox has thoughts on Billie Eilish? Well, duh.

Andy Hutchins: Nothing clicked for me with Billie Eilish until "Bad Guy." I understood the appeal intellectually, because it has sometimes been my wheelhouse: "Prodigy-cast makes off-kilter pop music from a perspective with more than a little precociousness and possibly a feminine spin that serves to disrupt rather than reify" is my jam for months at a time, sometimes. But some combination of prodigy and precociousness sometimes striking me as preciousness -- something that I've occasionally found issue with in the work of Sky Ferreira and Solange and Lorde and Cher Lloyd and fka twigs and Haim and Kacey Musgraves and Lana Del Rey and so many women who have occupied this same treacherous lane where deviating from delivering what is expected from a young woman making pop music can offend the sensibilities (or engage the biases) of even someone who has strained to stave off the stupidity of dismissing music made by young women and largely intended for young women -- and what I read as a deliberately dark and standoffish aesthetic put me off of Eilish, whose stuff just didn't compel me. Everything clicks for me with Billie Eilish now that I've heard "Bad Guy," which I reckon is pathetic on my part, because so much of the DNA of "Bad Guy" is in other work she's done that the things that differentiate it as The Hit and The Breakthrough come down to tempo and a kooky synth run in the hook that every third YouTube commenter thinks is stolen from Plants vs. Zombies. But "Bad Guy" is also an unassailable pop song and has come along at a time when bulletproof ones are not occupying the charts -- the closest competition in the current top 40 by my sight is, like, a Katy Perry song whose verses let down its magnificent hook, a bunch of drowsy-to-dire Khalid and Halsey tunes, a C- effort from Taylor Swift, and a microwaved Lizzo track that I've known of for a while and don't consider her best stuff -- and so it stands out even more from the pop metagame than the larger Eilish oeuvre does from a host of less realized tunes. And I'm a sucker for an unassailable pop song, especially one with a vocal initially delivered so low that it demands attention to the dial in the car but that is by turns brightly funny ("...duh!") and world-weary and campy to the hilt (the titular phrase being stretched to a titanium crocodile's rasp), a relentless bass line that sounds like a monster's heartbeat echoing in a cave, and lyrics that constitute a semi-sincere embrace of some Lolita tropes and a more powerful sarcastic destruction of them while somehow also being fully ready for Instagram captions and Twitter display names and ... well, no one's on Tumblr anymore. But that's hardly Billie's fault, and I'm not docking points for only barely failing to raise the dead with a virtuosic song that makes me this glad to be alive. [10]

Alfred Soto: There's a reason this song has become the breakout hit besides its insidious keyboard hook: Billie Eilish sings not mumbles the gender bending hook. Otherwise a ditty that the top 40 could use more of; its quietness is a tonic. [8]

Joshua Copperman: Sounds great, looks great (if possibly plagarized), memes great. The deadpan anti-sexuality of "might-seduce-your-dad type" is "Guys My Age" done right. The delivery of "my soul, so cynical" like even that is too earnest of a statement. The only weak part is the ending switch-up. But you knew all that already. Duh. Besides the cries of "industry plant!" there's also the ongoing sense that Eilish is a music writers' idea of what a 17-year-old Tumblr-born pop star would sound like. And sure, she's a young music writers' dream; I have a byline at Billboard because of her. But also, it's genuinely smart music that is mostly set to age well, even if it's hard to tell if it m a t t e r s. Who knows what 17-year-olds of any predilection towards seducing dads are actually listening to; I'm 21 and finding that out is only getting more difficult, if maybe not more necessary. If teens still control popular culture, if anyone does, who knows if this really does reflect them, or if its bottomless angst is mocked like Limp Bizkit? Is "Bad Guy" just "Heathens" for the late-2010s? Does this really represent the next generation? And which next generation; the shit-talking saviors, or the ones just like their parents and the radicalized alt-right kids? There's no easy answer to any of these, no "duh" to shrug them off. But there is Eilish and co. applying the daily grind of apocalyptic dread to smaller-scale topics. Processing death on "Bury a Friend," processing one's own body image on "idontwannabeyouanymore," processing changing gender roles here. Finding your place in 2019 is a lot for anyone. No one is getting it right. What Eilish does instead is turn that uncertainty to playfulness, confidently existing within the mess instead of trying to find her spot. [8]

Leah Isobel: I was on Tumblr in 2011, so "might seduce your dad type" doesn't feel as provocative as she might intend. (Also, Halsey did the exact same thing.) Besides, pop is a space for fantasy and role-playing, and she's not the first 16-year old bad girl to make adults freak out a little. What gets me is that the song itself is a brilliant production piece in search of an equally compelling melody; the biggest hooks here are an audible eye-roll and a Tim Burton rip. I love the idea of Billie as a goth-teen-pop star, and the choice to swerve into a spooky outro instead of a more traditional structure is genuinely a lot of fun, but this all feels like so much posturing -- normal for a teenager, but not that compelling to listen to on its own. [6]

Katherine St Asaph: If Billie Eilish is the Gen Z Fiona Apple, which I've heard from about three separate people even before the Discourse started, then "Bad Guy" is her "Criminal," down to it being creep flypaper. Everyone quotes that one dad line a bit too eagerly, like they're subconsciously thinking that if they have the pithiest take they just might get to be the dad. (It isn't even the most suggestive line.) There's a strong case for the dad being the bad guy, if only because he's, well, the guy. But "Bad Guy" lives in the world of teenage politics, where the guys just are and the girls get their badness thrust upon them, and their choices are to shrink away or play along. Duh. ("Bad Guy" : "duh" :: "Your Love Is My Drug" : "I like your beard.") But all this is pretty serious analysis for a fundamentally trolly song: half-mumbling the melody to a beat I'm pretty sure I made in a high school to go with a video project; rhyming bad/mad/sad/dad like a Mavis Beacon keyboarding tutorial (or whatever the kids have now; maybe they're just born typing); crooning an exceedingly Lana Del Rey-ish "I'm only good at being bad" then immediately cutting that crap for a bassy, fuck-off breakdown; filling only about 60% of the song with, like, song. [6]

Joshua Minsoo Kim: Not the most impressive or cohesive Billie Eilish song, but it is the one most likely to remind you of how fun her music can be (that she included the Invisalign skit in the video helps). The coda is fine, but the best reversal is found elsewhere: the nonchalant cries of duh followed by a cartoonish synth melody, underlining just how playful the song's darker elements are. [6]

Josh Langhoff: Eilish sometimes sounds like the Cardigans if they only did Black Sabbath covers, "evil" squeezed between an extra set of scare quotes, and sometimes she's Nellie McKay on downers, ennui shaped like wit but without the laughs. Sometimes she's good and sometimes she sings ballads. And somehow that combination produced "Bad Guy," the elusive Somehow Perfect Pop Song That Sounds Like Nothing Else On The Radio. I can't say I love it, but all her murmuring and posturing makes Top 40 radio seem, after too many years, like a playground of endless possibility. What'd we do to deserve this and "Old Town Road"? [8]

Jessica Doyle: Yes. Some are red, and some are blue. Some are old, and some are new. Some are sad, and some are glad, and some are very, very bad. Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know. Go ask why that menacing bass and Eilish's whisper didn't deserve better lyrics. [4]

Tobi Tella: Billie Eilish's artistic direction and style of music makes it seem almost impossible for her to make a legitimate banger, but this fits in perfectly with the rest of her album tone-wise and also completely slaps. The simplicity of the production, literally created in a bedroom just adds to the perfect low-key vibe. The lyrics do make Billie sound a little like a teenager who will cringe reading them in 10 years, but as an 18 year old, sometimes doing stupid stuff you know is destructive and immature is FUN, and this completely captures that feeling. [8]

Will Adams: I love love love the idea of this shifty, close mic'd oddball dancepop song being as big of a mainstream hit as it is, even if it's one of the more slight offerings from the album. Extra point for the coda, where Billie drops the coy and reminds you how quick she is to put her foot on your neck. [7]

Pedro João Santos: The coda lamentably inverts the light heart of "Bad Guy": the colourful, whispered titillation conjugated with what's left unsaid, a sort of puerile pleasure dutifully translated by the Theremin-esque synths; not the heady, overlong consummation that it unfolds onto by the end. I must say I'm exhilarated that someone knew how to ape "Las de La Intuición" nearly 15 years on, although startled by the fact that it was Billie Eilish the one to do it. [7]

Scott Mildenhall: Done well, it's enjoyable to hear a musician having such fun, but especially so when one unexpected element of a song comes in to underline just how much fun they're having. In this case, it's the gloopy searchlight noise, playing out like the theme tune to a 1970s cop show set in space, in a way that cannot be anything but gleefully goofy. Such bold and playful invention is something pop music would suffer without. Extra points for the consideration to leave a gap before the outro so that radio stations can cut it out. [8]

Iris Xie: I still think this song should've been cut off at the 2:14 mark, because it said everything it needed to say. [5]

Katie Gill: That purposefully obnoxious "duh" sums up what Eilish wants to say more than the rest of the song combined (and is currently in the running for my favorite 2 seconds of 2019 pop music). This image of her as the bad guy isn't serious. It's bratty and playful, more her creating something she can have fun with instead of taking herself seriously. Unfortunately, that something interesting here is buried in a three minute piece that somehow manages to be three completely different songs which never actually coheres to a single whole. [6]

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[burkepeters]

Recommended Reading I

Philosophy:

·         A Short Treatise on the Metaphysics of Tsunamis by Jean-Pierre Dupuy

·         The Most Good You Can Do by Peter Singer

·         The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper

·         A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

·         Twilight of the Idols, Antichrist, Beyond Good & Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Birth of Tragedy, Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche

·         Vengeance in Reverse by Mark Anspach

·         Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

·         Five Dialogues by Plato

·         The Republic by Plato

·         Politics, Poetics, Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

·         A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

·         Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti

·         As A Man Thinketh by James Allen

Religion, Mythology & Spirituality:

·         The Bible (KJV or Jerusalem Bible)

·         The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis

·         My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers

·         The Bhagavad Gita

·         Martyrs Mirror by Thieleman Van Bragt

·         Zen Mind; Beginner’s Mind

·         The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross

·         The Ending of Time by Jiddu Krishnamurti

·         The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy

·         Forgiving as We’ve Been Forgiven by Jones and Musekura

·         The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann

·         The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Council by Unknown

·         The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (John Ciardi translation to English)

·         Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (English)

·         Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, Battling to the End, Job: the Victim of His People by Rene Girard

·         Works of Love, Sickness Unto Death, Fear and Trembling, Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing by Soren Kierkegaard

·         Beowulf

·         Mere Christianity and A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis

·         Be Here Now by Ram Dass

Technology/Science/Engineering:

·         Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down by J.E. Gordon

·         Basic Machines and How They Work by Navedtra

·         Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham

·         Python Crash Course, Learning Python, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, Web Scraping with Python

·         The Internet of Money I & II, Mastering Bitcoin by Antonopoulos

·         University Physics with Modern Physics by Hugh D. Young

·         Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows

·         Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes

Psychology:

·         Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi

·         Aion, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, The Undiscovered Self by C. G. Jung

·         Maps of Meaning and 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson

·         Resurrection from the Underground by Rene Girard

·         Intimate Domain by Reineke

·         The Genesis of Desire, Psychopolitics and The Mimetic Brain by Jean-Michel Oughourlian

·         Love by Stendhal

·         Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

·         Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood by Jean Piaget

·         Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Cialdini

·         Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

·         The Wisest One in the Room by Gilgovich and Ross

·         How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

·         The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey

·         The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane

Economics, Business & Trading:

·         Economy and the Future: A Crisis of Faith by Jean-Pierre Dupuy

·         Human Action by Ludwig Von Mises

·         The Empire of Value by Andre Orlean

·         Zero to One by Peter Thiel

·         The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson

·         Skin in the Game, The Black Swan, Antifragile, Bed of Procustes by Nassim Taleb

·         Fortune’s Formula by William Poundstone

·         Options Volatility and Pricing by Sheldon Natenberg

·         The New Trading for a Living by Elder

·         Money & Possessions by Walter Brueggemann

·         The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J. Gordon

·         The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver

·         Making the Modern World, Harvesting the Biosphere and Global Catastrophes and Trends by Vaclav Smil

·         The Second Machine Age by Brynjolfsson and McAfee

·         Principles by Ray Dalio

·         The Art of Short Selling by Kathryn Staley

·         Venture Deals by Feld

·         The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea by John Micklethwait

·         The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen

·         The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker

·         4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss

·         Up Your Game: 6 Timeless Principles for Networking Your Way to the Top by David Bradford

·         The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman

·         Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher

·         The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

·         Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Biography:

·         Gandhi: An Autobiography by Gandhi

·         Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson

·         Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

·         Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

·         Lives by Plutarch

·         Elon Musk by Vance

Fiction:

·         Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

·         Notes from Underground, Demons, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime & Punishment by Dostoevsky

·         Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

·         The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien

·         The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

·         East of Eden by John Steinbeck

·         1984 by George Orwell

·         Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

·         Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

·         Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Narcissus & Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

·         Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

History & General:

·         The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

·         The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking by Barbara Minto

·         The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore by W.B. Yeats

·         Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W.B. Yeats

·         Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday

·         33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene

·         The Art of War by Sun Tzu

·         The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 

·         Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block

·         Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

·         Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

·         A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Poetry:

·         The Essential Rumi

·         Howl! And Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

·         The Wasteland and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot

·         A Poetry Handbook by Mary Olver

·         Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

·         The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

Mathematics:

·         Mathematics in 10 Lessons: The Grand Tour by Jerry P. King

·         Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences

·         Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

·         A Course of Pure Mathematics by G. H. Hardy

·         Introductory Econometrics by Wooldridge

·         Using Econometrics by Studenmund

·         Modern Industrial Organization by Carlton Perloff

[awhilesince]

Sunday, 5 September 1824

7 55/60

12 1/2

at 10 1/2 set off with Miss Mackenzie and Mrs Barlow to our Ambassador’s chapel in the rue St. Honoré – service to begin at 11 1/2 – obliged to go so early to get seats – the room nearly full when we got there – quite different from where my aunt and I went in 1819 – merely a large room in our ambassador’s hotel, full of chairs ranged across it from top to bottom – no regular pulpit – no clerk – we, the congregation muttered the responses – Our ambassador, an insignificant, unimportant, rather shabbyish sort of looking little man, followed his chaplain, Mr Forster, who preached 20 minutes (a moral discourse – well enough) from 1.14. Ecclesiastes, or Ticus – that Solomon had tried all things, and found them vanity and vexation of spirit – Looked round, but saw not one face I knew, till, about 1/2 hour after us, entered Mr Strickland (George junior) of Hildenly, and his wife – they were obliged to sit separately – 

when we had walked 1/2 way back, Mrs Mackenzie (Mrs Barlow staid the sacrament) grew nervous about crossing the street, on account of the carriages, and called a dirty fiacre for which she paid 30 sols and which brought us all home – 

Mrs M– (Mackenzie) had had no coffee this morning – could get none – she and Mrs Barlow had gone to complain to Madame de B– (Boyve) we had no sooner got back, then then we had it all over – I heard the whole; for Madame de B– (Boyve) took me aside and explained – Monsieur came in to us – would have her turn away the cook and housemaid etc etc I slank away here to my room, a little after 2, and here have I been quietly writing the 2 last pages and so far of this which had taken me till 4 1/4 – Thought I to myself I have nothing to do with it – I had my breakfast very comfortably this morning – 2 rolls 2 small pitchers of boiled milk, and plenty of butter – 

Dinner at 5 3/4 – Mrs Mackenzie and Mrs Barlow having each a headache the latter did not come down to dinner the latter went upstairs from table not to appear in the drawing room – Had a good deal of conversation with Mr Brande – He says, he has had little time to attend to anything but his profession – and this appears – speaking of the cabinet d’anatomie at the jardin des plantes, he has not had time to see it, but Mr Green of St. Thomas’s hospital London nephew to Mr Cline, says, our preparations at Surgeon’s hall, are better but the name of Cuvier does everything – and that the subjects at the école de medicine, tho’ done like everything else in France to look well, and take with the public, yet are not well ‘mounted’ I think was the expression – not well put together – and Mr Green is a very rising man in his profession, and a very good judge – Frederic Accum’s father came over (from Germany I suppose) to be an assistant or apprentice to Mr Brande’s father, and Mr B– (Brande) knew a great deal of Frederic A– (Accum) now doing well at Berlin – Mr B– (Brande) not surprised at his conduct in stealing leaves from the Royal Institution books – all had writings superficial – In short, his character was well exprest by the name of Quackem – 

a soirée in the evening – a lady, and her daughter? # and a young man really gentlmanly, tho’ a little priggishly dandyish and Messieurs Sorteval, whom we had last night, Phillip, and Bellevue, a diminutive rather deformed man but gentlemanly speaks French beautifully and I liked him the best of the 4 gents gentlemen – the elderly lady played ecarté the whole evening with Monsieur Sorteval, or Monsieur Bellevue – the rest of us staid round the drawing room table, had a little lottery or 2, and different sorts of games, et les questions – yet there was not much conversation or play made, and such a party would have been called stupid in England – thought I, if I could speak French as well as English, I could improve all this if I chose, and make the thing pleasanter – the English crept away early – 

soon after 10 and I came upstairs at 10 55/60 and left the French to talk us over – Madame de B (Boyve) evidently likes me she praised the questions and answers I write and is very civil I am certainly attentive to her with that something of flattery of manner she is not used to from ladies I could make my way if I could speak better – I could make my way, if I could speak better, and am in better hope about it tonight – In mannerism, I have certainly the advantage of all our English party – the ease I feel 1/2 surprises myself – 

Very fine day – Fahrenheit 74° at 11 p.m. – 1/2 hour writing the last 22 1/2 lines which took me till 12 struck by St. Roch, I suppose it is –

left margin: # Mrs Kidd and her daughter Miss (Beresford and the young lady’s adorateur Monsieur Deisnac.) Wednesday afternoon 27 April 1825.

reference number: SH:7/ML/E/8/0040

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@floweryprincess, I got your ask and I am happy to answer it!!! You'll have to give me a bit to answer it because I intend to answer it as thoroughly as possible. I want to provide people resources and cite the claims I'll be making. But I will answer your ask and am very happy to!