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Threat to British tea drinking culture due to problems in Kenyahttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/busines...
The HyadesIn ancient time, the Hyades
Did raise the infant Dionysus,
Perched upon the mountain top
Where Zeus's thunderbolts
Pierced the sky.
Then one day they learned
The doleful news of their brother Hyas.
Whilst hunting, an accident occurred.
And their brother now lay dead.
So great was their grief
That their copious tears
Made a drenching rain
Fall upon the earth below.
So then the great father Zeus
Heard what had happened.
His heart was filled with pity
And he raised the sorrowing nymphs,
Placing them within the stars of Taurus, the bull,
Where they remain to this day.
Some of the wording is amusing: "Hello my dear, would you like to form an intimate configuration with me?"
Ha ha! I know less about Fanny. Of course "Darien" is one of the famous Keatsian lines.
Grasshopper wrote: "Existential woes?"For some I suppose. It was in an invite to a seminar. But they are all good questions.
"You Can’t Warm Your Hands in Front of a Book but You Can Warm Your Hopes There"(Actually you can warm your hands in front of a book, if you set fire to it - see Fahrenheit 451)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem...
Some questions on the politics of intimate lifeAre some intimate configurations more conducive to flourishing than others?
Does oppression deform our ability to love well?
Does romantic love help, or hinder, justice?
How can we desire better?
Should the state support intimacy?
Should the state privilege certain relationships? If so, which ones?
Is the vulnerability of intimate life something to be mitigated, or embraced?
To what extent is intimate vulnerability separable from political vulnerability?
What would a just intimate life look like?
Should the state try to ensure a fairer distribution of intimate goods?
Should the politics of intimate life feature in Sex and Relationship Education curricula?
Can we educate (for) intimacy? Would we want to?
When "Silent upon a peak in Darien" ran through my head, I thought: how did he get from Homer to Cortez? But of course Keats compares his discoveries within a book to Cortez discovering the physical world.
I finally got my hair cut today. Now I feel like a human being again, no longer like a woolly mammoth.
A covid jokeWhy did the citizen cross the road?
To get to the vaccination centre.
Congratulations Leon! I award you the title of Poem Master.
Moths are not my favourite insect, but I like the poem. But why is the title in brackets?
Humans cannot survive so long. But bots, provided they are made of high grade titanium, can.
Grasshopper wrote: "🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈Congratulations! Welcome to group member number 1100 Sanna.
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Hooray! 1100 welcomes to you Sanna, and may the group exist for 1100 years.
