I just know that the Stones song "Respectable" would be playing on loop.
Who keeps Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
Recto? Damn near killed-o!
Not a defense of Baker's book or his interpretation of Marat, btw. I definitely don't think the book's argument justifies its length. I've also only made it 1/2 way through. But, I'm not reviewing it. Reviewers should read the whole book & engage w/the book's argument. Feels dumb to even write that.
Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016
Struggling to articulate what The Cheese and the Worms meant to me when I first read it. It wasn't about microhistory, or Menocchio, or the Inquisition. More just an awareness that, wow, there are *so many* ways to write history, so many stories to tell from the sources we have.
RIP.
I could have been accused of vagueposting earlier; here's the news in full. I can't count the number of times I have heard Rick Van Kooten referred to as "a saint." He started as Executive Dean of the College in Fall 2019 and has been thru it ALL with such equilibrium www.ipm.org/2026-06-16/d...