My best friend and I spent an intense, luminous week in Derry last year, passing Heaney's North back and forth, which is wonderful, but also lead to the immortal question, "is he talking about sex or a bog body?"
Seamus Heaney graciously came and spoke to my junior high. The teachers made SUCH a big deal out of it and yet, 12 year olds gonna be 12 and it completely went over my head. It would have been 1996 when Heaney came to talk, and I’m guessing he was promoting his book? Elie Weitzel ALSO came to my 8th grade history class and he was more compelling because the Holocaust resonated more. One benefit of growing up in Iowa City was people came through town every once in a while.
Ugh Gill. his Madonna knitting is one of my absolute favorite pieces of art, and all the Chaucer engravings, and the Aldine bible, no words to say what they all mean to me. And then you find out. It's gutting.
I knew Eric Gill was horrible because of his typefont wiki article-- largely the bestiality! I didn't know there was more shit he had done that was imo even worse so I learned something! When I first learned about it I just thought, this is not a font I need, and so it is not a font I ever consider using. I've never been inside Westminster Cathedral. God. That is so fucked up.
My best friend and I spent an intense, luminous week in Derry last year, passing Heaney's North back and forth, which is wonderful, but also lead to the immortal question, "is he talking about sex or a bog body?"
There should be SPACES between stanzas of the poem but they were eaten on the back-end.
Seamus Heaney graciously came and spoke to my junior high. The teachers made SUCH a big deal out of it and yet, 12 year olds gonna be 12 and it completely went over my head. It would have been 1996 when Heaney came to talk, and I’m guessing he was promoting his book? Elie Weitzel ALSO came to my 8th grade history class and he was more compelling because the Holocaust resonated more. One benefit of growing up in Iowa City was people came through town every once in a while.
Wow. That's so cool. I am very jealous because 12 - year old me had an interest in both.
Ugh Gill. his Madonna knitting is one of my absolute favorite pieces of art, and all the Chaucer engravings, and the Aldine bible, no words to say what they all mean to me. And then you find out. It's gutting.
I knew Eric Gill was horrible because of his typefont wiki article-- largely the bestiality! I didn't know there was more shit he had done that was imo even worse so I learned something! When I first learned about it I just thought, this is not a font I need, and so it is not a font I ever consider using. I've never been inside Westminster Cathedral. God. That is so fucked up.
He's long dead, and I am still irrationally angry at him for making such beautiful things while being a monster.
Which of the nonfiction has the strongest narrative, would you say?
Say Nothing