Banned in Texas
Struggle over academic freedom in Texas state universities has a long history. Today it's often over race and gender; in the 1940s, it was over things like John Dos Passos's USA trilogy.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
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John Dos passos at PG:
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Banned in Texas
Struggle over academic freedom in Texas state universities has a long history. Today it’s often over race and gender; in the 1940s, it was over things like John Dos Passos’s USA trilogy…Everybody's Libraries
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#OTD in 1612 (and 27 January 1613). Galileo Galilei became the first person to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
Because Neptune was only beginning its yearly retrograde cycle in Dec. 1612, the motion of the planet was far too slight to be detected with Galileo's small telescope.
Neptune at PG:
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Books about Neptune (Planet) -- Fiction
Project Gutenberg offers 77,375 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
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The cultural works becoming public domain in 2026, from Betty Boop to Nancy Drew
A new year means a new parade of classic characters and works entering the public domain.
By Rachel Treisman
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#books #comics #movies #publicDomainDayCountdown
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“secondo duo di follia” for alto recorder and electric violin / gabriele manca
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Antonio Politano, recorder
Haesung Choe, electric violin
#AntonioPolitano #audio #audiovideo #electricViolin #HaesungChoe #musica #musicaContemporanea #recorder #video
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impara/comprendi tutta la scrittura di ricerca in 1′ 29” (metodo infallibile) / differx. 2025
per capire tutta la scrittura di ricerca in poco meno di un minuto e mezzo basta vedere questo:
youtube.com/shorts/lsuGuf6SCjY
e tutto rifulgerà di immediata chiarezza
#comprendi #didassi #didattica #ilVideoDefinitivoSullaScritturaDiRicerca #impara #messaggiAiPoeti #scritturaDiRicerca #scrittureDiRicerca #stepOne #testiDiMgInRete #testiDiMgOnline #utiliSussidi #vediamoSeRiescoASpiegarmi
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.youtube.com
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istituzione e differenza, intervista a paolo virno: ferdinand de saussure (2013)
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“Insegnare Saussure, studiare Saussure“. A cent’anni dalla scomparsa del grande linguista ginevrino, emerge in primo piano l’esigenza di riflettere sugli avanzamenti o le battute di arresto delle scuole e degli studi dedicati all’autore del Cours. Nel convegno di Cosenza si confrontano studiosi giovani e meno giovani che si sono dedicati, con impegno duraturo e appassionato, all’insegnamento di Saussure e alla ricerca sui temi a lui più cari. Non si tratta semplicemente di mappare le università o i dipartimenti dove Saussure viene insegnato e studiato, quanto di presentare linee di ricerca inedite e nuovi motivi di insegnamento. Anziché limitarsi a censire quanto è stato fatto fino ad oggi, queste giornate si concentrano su quanto rimane ancora da fare, nella convinzione che Saussure sia un riferimento indiscusso per le scienze umane che mettono al centro della loro ricerca il segno linguistico, la lingua come sistema e la facoltà di linguaggio.
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La nave pirata.
Vicenda poco nota svoltasi all'epoca della Grande Guerra, è anche un gradevole romanzo di marineria. L'autore, Gennaro Pagano di Melito, fu tenente di vascello nella regia marina, il libro si scarica gratis, in pdf, da:
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#UnoLibri #libri #letteratura #public_domain #cosediscuola #cultura
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The 29 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2025
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"Wuthering Heights" at PG:
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"The Country of the Pointed Firs" at PG:
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The 29 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2025
It is the hallowed tradition of every cultural publication under the sun to, come December, curate a list of their favorite books of the year. (No shade, we did it too.) But at Literary Hub, we als…Literary Hub
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notilla + inciso “narciso”
un’annotazione, e poi un inciso “narciso” (energumeno più prolisso dell’annotazione):
“di cosa parliamo quando parliamo di installazioni testuali o di testi installativi? […] per inciso, mi va di far notare e rammentare – alla compagine della critica ma soprattutto alla banda della poesia italiana – che […]” -> noblogo.org/differx/di-cosa-pa…
#111 #Bortolotti #Broggi #cambioDiParadigma #CarloBordini #CorradoCosta #critica #criticaLetteraria #differx #differxdiario #gammm #gammmOrg #inciso #installazioni #lessico #lessicoDellaCritica #lessicoDellaCriticaLetteraria #letterarismo #looseWriting #Narciso #noblogo #notilla #ProsaInProsa #scritturaDiRicerca #testiInstallativi #Zaffarano
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7 mysterious languages that have yet to be deciphered
by Alexander Freund
Indus, Rongorongo, Linear A: Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past?
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Archeology at PG:
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#archeology #history #linguistics
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As I expected, so-called "AI" won't help. AI needs a large database which also contains known material.
LLM(or so-called generative) based AI certainly is useless except as a broken search and plagiarism tool. Better real search tools that are accurate about the sources are more use. LLM produces a large percentage of plausible rubbish and "Hallucination" is a marketing lie for what is designed in.
Almost everything to do with current AI terminology is a marketing lie.
In the public domain soon, in libraries now
The Penn Libraries, where I work, has first editions of many of the works featured in my #PublicDomainDayCountdown . From today through Public Domain Day, the Libraries social media will feature photos of some distinctive books from 1930.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
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#books #literature #publicDomainDayCountdown
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” alp”, for guitar and paetzold recorder / maurizio pisati. 1995
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Maurizio Pisati: “Alp” (1995)
Elena Casoli – guitar
Antonio Politano – Paetzold recorder
(live recording of the first world performing)
#Alp #AntonioPolitano #audio #audiovideo #ElenaCasoli #MaurizioPisati #musica #musicaContemporanea #PaetzoldRecorder #video
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Ragguaglio della vaccina in Friuli nell'anno 1801.
Nel 1801 il medico Agostino Pagani, in accordo con il Conte Caratti, promotore della pratica medica, avviò una opera di vaccinazione secondo il metodo di Jenner tra la popolazione friulana, questo il suo diario. Si scarica gratis, in pdf, da:
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#UnoLibri #libri #letteratura #public_domain #cosediscuola #cultura
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How Colette Was Inspired By Her Many Cats
Susannah Fullerton on the French Writer’s Feline Muses
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Books by Colette at PG:
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How Colette Was Inspired By Her Many Cats
La Chatte condescended to live with Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette), born in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, France, in 1873, died in Paris, 1954, novelist, actress and journalist. In 1926 Colette, t…Literary Hub
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The strangely dark tone on her thumb and index fingers make me wonder if it this picture was shot on orthochromatic film.
I'm guessing that this is a portrait from around 1900. Panchromatic film was available about the time she was 30, but it's hard to know how soon after that it was widespread.
Archimedes Manuscript Yields Secrets under X-ray Gaze
For five days in May, the ancient collided with the ultra-modern at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), bringing brilliant, long-hidden ideas to light with brilliant X-ray light.
By Heather Rock Woods (from the archives)
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Archimedes at PG:
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Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive
The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive contains over 3000 illustrations from significant editions of Shakespeare's plays in the Victorian period.
by Michael John Goodman (thanks @Ross)
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#books #literature #book_illustration
Video on Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive
The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive contains over 3000 illustrations from the major editions of Shakespeare's Complete Works in the Victorian period.Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive
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O come, let all 4,850 of us adore him
In 1925 the Associated Glee Clubs of America put on a concert like no other. 15 choral groups, with over 850 singers in all, came together in New York's Metropolitan Opera House to sing a program broadcast on radio across America.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
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About Adeste Fideles:
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“anahit”, for violin & 18 instruments / giacinto scelsi. 1965
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Scelsi subtitled this splendid work “Lyrical Poem on the Name of Venus,” “Anahit” being the ancient Egyptian name for the goddess Venus. The piece is a major work of Scelsi’s and among the most important works of the 1960s. It is basically a chamber-sized violin concerto, although the relationship of the soloist to the ensemble is anything but the one expected in a concerto. Instead of a dialogue between orchestra and soloist, every instrument is washed into an ever-shifting, incandescent color field. Each instrumental part is extremely difficult, the violin part is only more so because it plays through more of the 13-minute duration of the piece than the rest. Making the soloist’s life still more difficult, the instrument is re-tuned to G-G-B-D to give it a more intense and ethereally plaintive sound. Scelsi also notated the violin part in a special tablature, string by string, treating each string as a separate sound-making entity. Conversely, the entire ensemble is treated like a single instrument that Scelsi plays upon like some heavenly synthesizer. Throughout the piece, he has the violin tensely slide about in microtones, moving along a gradually ascending path, and nothing more. This severe restriction of material means that tremendous concentration is required of he soloist and the terrific tension involved in just holding on to the part comes through in performance. Around this core of diamond-thread, Scelsi pours the tremendous oceanic noise of the rest of the ensemble. The “solo” violin is quite often submerged in the sound, disappearing with the rest of the instrumental voices into the slow, wide-angle shriek of changing sound. Frequent cadential effects, usually underlined with orchestrational changes like an outburst of brass or shrill statements from the flutes, provide a sense of ebb and flow and a tasteful degree of formal definition. At around the eight-minute mark, there is a cadenza for violin solo that slyly creeps in while the supporting instruments gradually evaporate, a process that is repeated less fully in the very last passage. Anahit develops itself with an ascetic’s patience and doesn’t ever arrive at any kind of explosive climax. Instead, it hovers on the tentative edge of crisis, like a photograph of something hateful endlessly developing, out of which no clear image ever emerges. The pseudoscientific word “liminal” comes to mind: of or relating to a sensory threshold, barely perceptible, on the cusp of response. The beautiful tension of Anahit is partly the tension of a half-formed premonition and similar to the tension of having a lost word “on the tip of the tongue,” that slightly panicked mental grasping for something sensed and present, but unreachable. Unlike almost all of Scelsi’s music, some of which was not performed publicly until 30 years after its creation, Anahit was performed with Devy Erlih on violin a year after it was composed.
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“zipf maneuvers: on non-reprintable materials”, by andrew c. wenaus & germán sierra
cliccare per ingrandire
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Sierra e Wenaus utilizzano un algoritmo Python per riorganizzare i loro articoli originali secondo le distribuzioni Zipfiane, ordinando alfabeticamente e indicizzando numericamente ogni parola. Questa riorganizzazione produce un set di dati frammentato e non lineare che resiste alla lettura convenzionale. A ogni parola viene assegnato un numero corrispondente alla sua posizione originale nel testo, creando una struttura disarticolata, simile a un catalogo. Il risultato è una protesta contro la finanziarizzazione della conoscenza da parte delle aziende e una critica alle leggi sulla proprietà intellettuale che ne limitano l’accesso. Trasformando i propri saggi in dati riorganizzati algoritmicamente, Zipf Maneuvers mette in atto una singolare forma di resistenza, denunciando l’assurdità di un sistema che ostacola la libera circolazione delle idee
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#AndrewCWenaus #AndrewWenaus #catalogo #ErratumPress #ErratumPress #freeFiles #GermánSierra #installazione #installazioneTestuale #ownership #Python #scrittureInstallative #StevenShaviro #Zipf #ZipfManeuvers #ZipfManeuversOnNonReprintableMaterials
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Hiromu Arakawa e i suoi personaggi
Ho letto molti manga nel periodo della loro introduzione in Italia a seguito di capolavori come Akira e Crying Freeman, ma poi me ne sono quasi completamente distaccato almeno fino a quando, assiem…ossessioni e contaminazioni by francesco mazzetta
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Christmas Dinners Around the World: Choose Your FAVORITE Festive Dishes
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Yeats and the Occult Imagination
Beneath his poems lay a lifelong devotion to magic, divination, and a visionary system that shaped his most prophetic work.
By: Gus Mitchell
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The debut of a dramatic duo
Moss Hart wrote the first draft of Once in a Lifetime, a comedy about Hollywood's transition to "talkies", as a 25-year-old unknown.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
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#books #literature #publicDomainDayCountdown
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Making Sense of Middle Earth: Exploring the World of J.R.R. Tolkien
Michael D.C. Drout Remembers the Impact of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit on His Childhood
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Making Sense of Middle Earth: Exploring the World of J.R.R. Tolkien
My first interest in J.R.R. Tolkien was apparently caused by the infamous Barbara Remington artwork used for the covers of the Ballantine mass-market editions. When my father bought his paperback…Literary Hub
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smashing / jimmie durham. 2004
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#art #arte #arteContemporanea #contemporaryArt #FondazioneAntonioRatti #JimmieDurham #performance #Smashing
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[replyca] _ la poesia del natale della bontà della poesia / differx. 2022
Ispirato dal sito ‘Poesia del nostro tempo’, e (aggiunta 2025) dall’antologiona della Poesia Immortale Poesia Eterna recentemente uscita, anche io ho trovato giusto proporre ai lettori di slowforward un temino natalizio, che ho pensato di intitolare
LA POESIA DEL NATALE DELLA BONTÀ DELLA POESIA
(di natale)
Svolgimento
Nel tempo di Natale la città e la campagna della Poesia si ricoprono di candida neve, essa è bella e reca i pensieri natalizi. Sembra che la neve copre tantissimo chi scrive la Poesia, che la fa tutta Mitica e a me piace anche tantissimo. Ci sono dentro le parole.
È bello quando la neve inneva le giornate della Poesia, e tutto si ricopre di un manto di versi, ove la serenità porta la serenità alla Poesia e ai Poeti, e anche ai lettori, che del resto sono Poeti pure loro soprattutto dopo il ’75.
Siamo nel mese di dicembre, il mese della neve, ma io sto a Roma e me la sogno, così voglio fare una palla immaginaria e tirarla gentilmente al mese di dicembre, per scherzarlo dicendogli vai via. Esso è un mese che ci spinge a farci i bilanci dell’anno passato, e le speranze dell’anno futuro che arriva. Tra pochi giorni sarà il capodanno, e un nuovo anno caperà e avremo molti progetti da realizzare, per una gioia carica di attese che ci costellano.
Noi nel nostro passato vediamo delle ombre, delle inquietudini e delle incertezze, del buio e però anche delle candele nel buio, però anche delle asprezze e delle cupezze, delle monnezze, anche, ma non ci lasciamo scoraggiare da questo passato. Come dice la parola, esso è passato.
Qui a slowforward dobbiamo ritrovare la nostra vocazione più vera e autentica senza sbroccare, cercando di seguire la luce della lucentezza della Poesia, che nella notte della conoscenza umana illumina di umano l’umanità. Qui quindi io stesso cercherò di essere più buono e paziente e migliore, prometto da oggi in poi di non importunare troppo la destra poetica italiana, i nuovi mitomodernisti, le cariatidi i cariati e i caronti, e accettare santamente con santa rassegnazione che alla fine di questo anno 2022 5 (in realtà il 1957) ricominci ancora una volta il 1957.
Tanti sereni auguri di Poesia e che qualche fiore sbocci qua e là, a casaccio,
in fede
Roma, lì 28 dicembre 2022
25 dicembre 2025
Marco Giovenale
#111 #differx #letterinaDiNatale #natale #poesia #prosa #slowforward #testiDiMgInRete
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christos ready maid / luca maria patella
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sulla fronte, spingendo un bottone, si illumina con la scritta “ready maid”
(Collezione Giuseppe Garrera)
#art #arte #ChristosReadyMaid #CollezioneGiuseppeGarrera #GiuseppeGarrera #LucaMariaPatella #Patella
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collezionismo (o no)
cosa 'non' fa di me un collezionista
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incoscienza a proposito della Liberazione
dal 2015 : youtu.be/cBesCvBzXfw
(e credo che in questi ultimi dieci anni le cose siano ancora peggiorate.
non si spiegano molte faccende orribili, altrimenti)
#25aprile #Liberazione #FestaDellaLiberazione #antifascismo
notilla su
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prozession / karlheinz stockhausen. 1967
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Prozession (Procession), for tamtam, viola, electronium, piano, microphones, filters, and potentiometers (six performers), is a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in 1967. It is Number 23 in the catalogue of the composer’s works.
Christoph Caskel, Joachim Krist, Péter Eötvös, Harald Bojé, Aloys Kontarsky, Karlheinz Stockhausen
Conception
Prozession is one of a series of works dating from the 1960s which Stockhausen designated as “process” compositions. These works in effect separate the “form” from the “content” by presenting the performers with a series of transformation signs which are to be applied to material that may vary considerably from one performance to the next. In Prozession, the performers choose material from specific earlier compositions by Stockhausen. In the subsequent companion works, Kurzwellen for six performers, Spiral for a soloist, Pole for two, and Expo for three, this material is to be drawn spontaneously during the performance from short-wave radio broadcasts (Kohl 1981, 192–93). The processes, indicated primarily by plus, minus, and equal signs, constitute the composition and, despite the unpredictability of the materials, these processes can be heard from one performance to another as being “the same” (Kohl 2010, 137).
History
Prozession was begun during a train journey to Basel in May 1967 (Gehlhaar 1998, 53) and was written for and dedicated to the ensemble with which Stockhausen was regularly touring at that time: Alfred Alings and Rolf Gehlhaar (tamtam with hand-held microphone), Johannes Fritsch (viola), Harald Bojé (electronium), and Aloys Kontarsky (piano). Two performers are required for the tamtam: The world premiere was given by this ensemble in Helsinki on 21 May 1967, with subsequent performances in Stockholm, Oslo, at the Bergen Festival, in Copenhagen, London, and finally on 26 August 1967 at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. Three performances were recorded in Darmstadt a few days later, and one was chosen for release on disc (Stockhausen 1971, 102–103). Earlier recordings had been made for radio broadcast, during rehearsals at the WDR in Cologne, on 9 and 10 May 1967 (Gehlhaar 1998, 55). In addition to recordings, over the scourse of three years this same ensemble performed Prozession approximately twenty-eight times (Gehlhaar 1998, 62).
Structure and technique
Prozession consists of a sequence of 250 events in each of the four parts. There is no written score. Stockhausen explained that in pieces like this, “the first step is always that of imitating something and the next step is that of transforming what you’re able to imitate” (Cott 1973, 33). The tamtam players choose material from Mikrophonie I, the viola from Gesang der Jünglinge, Kontakte, and Momente, the electronium from Telemusik, and the piano from the Klavierstücke I–XI and Kontakte (Stockhausen 1971, 103).
Each plus, minus, or equal sign indicates that, upon repetition of an event, the performer is to increase, decrease, or maintain the same level in one of four musical dimensions (or “parameters”): overall duration of the event, number of internal subdivisions, dynamic level, or pitch register/range. It is up to the performer to decide which of these dimensions is to be affected, except that vertically stacked signs must be applied to different parameters (Stockhausen 1973, 1, 11, 21). Despite this indeterminacy, a large number of plus signs (for example) will result in successive events becoming longer, more finely subdivided, louder, and either higher or wider in range; a large number of minus signs will produce the reverse effect (Kohl 2010, 137). In this way, a continuing process of changes is controlled, and the work’s title is taken from this concept at its core: German Prozeß = “process”, Prozess-ion (Stockhausen 1971, 106), though of course it also means “procession” in the sense of a ceremonial parade or enfilade (Gehlhaar 1998, 55).
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A Forgotten Louisa May Alcott Story Showcases the Author’s Twist on Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’
"Written in 1882, “A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True,” covered many of the same themes as Dickens’ classic, albeit with a different audience in mind"
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This story is in "Lulu's LIbrary, Volume I" at PG:
Lulu's Library, Volume 1 (of 3) by Louisa May Alcott
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
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I happened to listen to it read on The Classic Tales Podcast yesterday. Nice, if a tad preachy.
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Madame de Sévigné
Le musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris présente une exposition consacrée à Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626-1696), à l’occasion du 400e anniMusée Carnavalet - Histoire de Paris
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Port-Royal et les Mères du désert | Collection Chroniques de Port-Royal
Découvrez l'ouvrage Port-Royal et les Mères du désert | Collection Chroniques de Port-RoyalLibrairie Philosophique J. VRIN
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Consulter le document sur Gallica
Copies de lettres de ou à Antoine ARNAULD ; lettres originales de M. DE TILLEMONT, de la Mère Angélique de St Jean ARNAULD au P. Quesnel, etc. (1656-1695). @GallicaBnFGallica
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See Dick and Jane free
Given how much "Dick and Jane" have been used sardonically, one might think Zerna Sharp's schoolbook characters were already public domain.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
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#books #literature #publicDomainDayCountdown
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The quality of the "Dick and Jane" book cover could be better. I take it that this one is from Wikipedia again.
As with the "Yellow Knight" cover that I submitted on November 21, I've undertaken to come up with an improved version. So, here you go. This version is 600x900 and looks pretty good.
To expand the image, right-click on it and select Open Image in New Tab or similar. Left-click on the expanded image may then expand it further. Procedures for mobile will vary.
My version of the "Dick and Jane" book cover is based on a copy of the book that was for sale in eBay. It was fixed up using The #GIMP and #GMIC. No AI was used.
Note: If you like, feel free to pass the November 21 "Yellow Knight" book cover and this one on to Wikipedia.
"Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin."
Opening lines.
#OTD in 1925.
Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name in a children's story in the London Evening News for Christmas Eve.
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Winnie-the-Pooh at PG:
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Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
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Cantico di Natale.
La celebre trilogia di racconti di Dickens ci porta un briciolo di speranza nel futuro degli uomini di buona volontà. Con gli auguri di tutti i volontari, lo potete scaricare gratis, in pdf, epub, audiolibro, o acquistare per 2 euro e farci un regalo!🧑🎄
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#UnoLibri #libri #letteratura #public_domain #cosediscuola #cultura
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azstefano
in reply to Project Gutenberg • • •Here is a 2009 presentation documenting why it is thought Galileo noted the motion of Neptune, while not realizing that it may have been another planet. Not long before this, Galileo had tried to hire Kepler as his replacement for the Mathematics Chair at Padova. It's interesting to imagine if Kepler had heard about this "moving star," they might have scooped the actual discovery of Neptune by over 200 years.
eotvos.dm.unipi.it/nobili/gali…
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