older (and therefore better) ways of counting

The guy who came up with names of the months, Fabre d'Églantine, was quite a character.

everyone in a place of greater safety regards Fd'E as an overtheatrical and basically annoying dick, and enjoys points out that he invented the name d'Églantin for himself after a poetry prize he said he was awarded in a year the prize was not in fact given

however his month-names and day-names are good not bad and who is to say if his forgery and financial fraud are what brought down danton and then everyone else

There seem to have been an unusual number of actors and theatrical types involved in the French Revolution, among all the thousands of lawyers.

a: i will never be inspired by something recently on _Foundation_

I have the feeling that this is not the first time NV has beaten me to referencing that Jake Thackray track. Let me have it!

Jake is for everybody

wozzeck (berg) b/w yan tan tethera (birtwhistle: skip to 1:41 for some posh guy explaining the opera's central conceit, skip to 1:45 for space alien Tv visuals to calm down)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvHAMRxg7gc

wtf happened to tony harrison, i feel like he used to be everywhere

Yan Tan Tethera Methera

I took the family to Swaledale for summer holidays this year, never been there before and we were all just stunned by it, I've been all around the UK but I can't think of anywhere more beautiful and other-worldly. of course we listened to the jake thackeray song.