I should be working on my dissertation right now, but instead I'm reading an article about Chinese history in The New York Review of Books, and I cannot resist posting my favorite quote of the day
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Tea! I'm about to go to Teaism, actually. It's a DC tea house with ridiculously expensive specialty teas I can't afford and decent chai and ginger scones.
And I'm glad you focused in on "bewitched by tea." All I saw was "drained to the lees the first half of his life." Is this sign my Teaism trip should be called off?
Have never read Buddenbrooks. On the post-dissertation list! M.
All the links work, except I think that I think you forgot to close the last one? I can click on "this BBC article" but everything after it is bold and underlined, as if it were a link, too.
Is this sign my Teaism trip should be called off? No, it's a sign that you should go to Teaism, let yourself be bewitched by tea, drain it to the lees, etc. Because, no matter how frustrating life is otherwise, there will always be tea (unless, like Zhang Dai, you spend the second half of your life exiled to a remote mountain hut and foraging for your food--which somehow didn't stop him from writing voluminous memoirs).
On the post-dissertation list! My own list is now topped by Good Omens, which I somehow never heard of until I began reading HP fanfic sites. But I will be very disappointed if Aziraphale (spelling?) does not actually write Remus/Sirius fic, as he does in your adorable story.
which somehow didn't stop him from writing voluminous memoirs
I have always loved this about the older world and its inhabitants. Nowadays if we were exiled, we'd die of starvation and our memoirs would consist of "oh God I hate the world."
I have always loved this about the older world and its inhabitants
Me too! Though I suppose all those classic exile situations did leave a lot of free time for writing.
Maybe the internet is bringing back that kind of writing? Do you think you would keep blogging in exile/prison/a remote mountain hut, if you had an internet connection?
I love your tea icon and the Guardian article. Wouldn't it be fun to go to a wedding where the speeches are all about tea rather than the bride and groom? And now I feel I should pay more attention to the subtleties of rare Chinese teas, instead of my strong black tea.
Thanks for your feedback about the links--not sure what went wrong with my last one...
(And despite the burning irony of your small-tag typo, I am actually impressed that you can *do* a small tag. What's the command for that?)
I think I have three tea-related icons. It's a thing. And yes it would be! I've never really understood why wedding speeches are about the people getting married, given that everyone knows them, and if anyone is the +1 and doesn't know them, well a five minute wedding speech won't help. Speeches about tea seems to be the way forward.
(Oh phew I wasn't the only one who was made to feel underdeveloped in tea appreciation by the article. My mother laughed at me when I told her that.)
Easy peasy! < small > *text goes here* < / small > (removing spaces obviously. I think it also works as < s > *text* < / s >, but then again, that might be strikethrough.)
made to feel underdeveloped in tea appreciation by the article
Yes, the article made me feel quite shame-faced about my lack of tea refinement. The silver tips tea (or whatever) in the article sounds like the sort of thing that could only be brewed and appreciated by the elves of Lothlorien, and I am a mere mortal.
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And I'm glad you focused in on "bewitched by tea." All I saw was "drained to the lees the first half of his life." Is this sign my Teaism trip should be called off?
Have never read Buddenbrooks. On the post-dissertation list! M.
All the links work, except I think that I think you forgot to close the last one? I can click on "this BBC article" but everything after it is bold and underlined, as if it were a link, too.
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Is this sign my Teaism trip should be called off?
No, it's a sign that you should go to Teaism, let yourself be bewitched by tea, drain it to the lees, etc. Because, no matter how frustrating life is otherwise, there will always be tea (unless, like Zhang Dai, you spend the second half of your life exiled to a remote mountain hut and foraging for your food--which somehow didn't stop him from writing voluminous memoirs).
On the post-dissertation list!
My own list is now topped by Good Omens, which I somehow never heard of until I began reading HP fanfic sites. But I will be very disappointed if Aziraphale (spelling?) does not actually write Remus/Sirius fic, as he does in your adorable story.
Thanks for helping me to figure out the links!
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I have always loved this about the older world and its inhabitants. Nowadays if we were exiled, we'd die of starvation and our memoirs would consist of "oh God I hate the world."
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Me too! Though I suppose all those classic exile situations did leave a lot of free time for writing.
Maybe the internet is bringing back that kind of writing? Do you think you would keep blogging in exile/prison/a remote mountain hut, if you had an internet connection?
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Buddenbrooks is now on the "to read" list.
All working, but you need to close your tag on the BBC article.
Edited because I forgot to close my small tag! Oh, the irony. It burns.
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Thanks for your feedback about the links--not sure what went wrong with my last one...
(And despite the burning irony of your small-tag typo, I am actually impressed that you can *do* a small tag. What's the command for that?)
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(Oh phew I wasn't the only one who was made to feel underdeveloped in tea appreciation by the article. My mother laughed at me when I told her that.)
Easy peasy! < small > *text goes here* < / small > (removing spaces obviously. I think it also works as < s > *text* < / s >, but then again, that might be strikethrough.)
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Yes, the article made me feel quite shame-faced about my lack of tea refinement. The silver tips tea (or whatever) in the article sounds like the sort of thing that could only be brewed and appreciated by the elves of Lothlorien, and I am a mere mortal.
Thanks for the small text tutorial!
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