She lives a few blocks away and always invites us over for tea, which actually means a full meal.
Ironic today of all days, yet another opportunity the NYT editors have not taken to add FLONG to the spelling bee dictionary…
It is a part of the catalog of the library of Alexandria written by Callimachus and now mostly lost.
Idk who needs to hear this, but the latest InkQ catalog has a flong for a McCalls pattern in it! www.inkqrarebooks.com/private.php?...
One of my partner’s new yoga teacher friends is a Lebanese lady who is not much older than us but acts like our mom and she just gave us a giant bag of zaatar. I love her she is my real mom now!
Ahhhhhhhhhh
Unfortunately I’ve gotten myself into a situation where I need to understand something about 18th-century French legal documents and also how economic policy works
Just encountered the enchanting phrase “The Pinax of Miscellaneous Literature” which sounds like the title of a Borges short story. I’m pleased to inform you that the only thing we know about it is that it contained books about cake.
I’ve got a book bound in a reused piece of vellum which was once printed with the text of L’Édit of December 1764, or actually more likely a type of document related to it that I don’t really fully understand. It’s about charging rents for offices? I think? Most of the text is scraped away lmao
