For a long time, I had wanted to buy John Gay's Beggar's Opera, especially since I heard a feature comparing all three versions (the Gay version, the Britten version and the Brecht/ Weill Threepenny Opera), and on Amazon I found the complete version and the version from Benjamin Britten, both as second hand. Now I only need the Threepenny Opera, ( Read more... )

Update on the BBB:
page count: 62 -_-
word count: 17.312 (+ 16.657 in footnotes)

*kicks lazy self: not so much fooling around tomorrow*

And now something completely different:

Nice Hair, a web comic, featuring Neil Gaiman, Tim Burton, Robert Smith, Danny Elfman and others including Überman (a German superhero)

My favourites, so far. It's pretty long, I ( Read more... )

I have always wondered what happened to livejournal during my long absence, because suddenly people have started openeing new accounts in other similar pages, such as journalfen, greatestjournal and insanejournal.

Today, I finally found it out via
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Mm ... The Middles Ages have seen many Popes Benedict. I only select the the ones of the 14th and 15th century. In my opinion, Petrus de Luna (Benedict XIII.) is the most interesting parallel with the new pope ( Read more... )

… but I won’t talk about the piece by Tom Stoppart. I just wanted to use this expression, since an essay on Danish history in the 15th century informed me that the Rosencratz and the Guldenstern were two different family clans that supported different candidates for the Danish throne. In reality, they were all called Olav Nielssen or Nils Olavssen ( Read more... )

"Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness on sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size."
- John of Salisbury, Metalogicon, 1159 ( Read more... )