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wvmierlo

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Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University.
President of the European Society for Textual Scholarship.
Author of James Joyce and Cultural Genetics: The Joycean Genome (2023).
Non-professional photographer.
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wvmierlo, to photography
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Long Stairs, Nottingham, February 2024.

https://linktr.ee/wimvanmierlo

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St. Mary's, Nottingham, February 2024.

wvmierlo, to uk
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Stop sacrificing the Arts for STEM.

"By the government’s own estimates, the creative industries contribute around £126 billion to the UK economy. That’s more than the car industry, for instance, or aerospace, oil and gas."

https://theconversation.com/uks-creative-industries-bring-in-more-revenue-than-cars-oil-and-gas-so-why-is-arts-education-facing-cuts-227884

wvmierlo, to movies
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Sharing some info on an interesting conference happening at Texas A&M next week on editing in the early-modern period.

"Folio Futures: Editing Early Modern Plays for Tomorrow's Audiences" on 26 April will be live streamed.


https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/codhr/folio-futures-shakespeare-symposium/

lukemgraphy, (edited ) to photography
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William Eggleston said in the 2009 episode of BBC Arts' 'Imagine' that he has personal discipline of taking one picture of one thing. Otherwise he would have been confused about picking the better shot later.

Of course I never listen to the more experienced. I took two attempts at the same idea and now I don't know which one I should keep. I dunno, I'll toss a coin maybe.

I'll never learn. 😓

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@lukemgraphy
I find the second slightly more interesting b/c of the diagonal from top left to bottom right. Both are quite good shots though.

wvmierlo, to photography
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River Trent at Beeston Weir, December 2023.

wvmierlo, to history
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Forgeries are a common topic in book history, but what about fraudulent claims about copyright ownership?

Simon Kövesi | John Clare out of Copyright https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/january/john-clare-out-of-copyright
>‘It was not very manly of you to evade telling me what you had been up to when we met today,’ the late Eric Robinson...

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wvmierlo, to Futurology
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Always nice to hold a new publication in your hand.

"Genetic Criticism and Modern Palaeography: The Cultural Forms of Modern Literary Manuscripts"

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A curious find.

Original photo from Led Zeppelin IV album cover discovered - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-67336495.amp
>A university researcher says he has identified the man on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV.

photography

wvmierlo, to academia
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ChatGPT use shows that the grant-application system is broken

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03238-5
>The fact that artificial intelligence can do much of the work makes a mockery of the process. It’s time to make it easier for scientists to ask for research funding.

wvmierlo,
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@jaztrophysicist
I thought the point about the drain on resources by funding applications was the more poignant one. If it can be done by AI, it's not fit for purpose.

wvmierlo, to photography
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Window in the Casting Hall, John Taylor & Co., Bellfounders, Loughborough, May 2023.

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On 16 June 1924 friends send Joyce, who is in hospital, a bouquet of white and blue hydrangeas. He writes in his notebook: “Today 16 of June 1924 twenty years after. Will anybody remember this date?”

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Hold your horses. That's next year's quote. 😉

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He wrote this though (or rather Nora did, because the note is in her hand) with a sense of ironic self-deprecation.

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Textual Scholars:

I am writing something on parallel text editions (like the Norton edition of Wordsworth's The Prelude, 1799, 1805, 1850) and could use your suggestions.

I am looking for the earliest instance of a parallel text edition in English.

I'd also be interested to know which parallel text edition you consider the best (and why) and which is the most used.

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@philippsteinkrueger The Loeb Classical Library presents original + translation of course: same format, but somewhat different issue. But thank you for reminding me of this, as its clearly part of the wider practice.

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@philippsteinkrueger No worries. We all have our 'perspectives' that way. Your comment was actually very useful in considering the wider history of the format, going all the way back to the Polyglot Bible.

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John Taylor & Co., Bellfoundry, Loughborough, March 2023.

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