Olivia Smith
Early modernist. Thinking with literature and science about natural history, big emotions, cognition. I like working in archives, or do I mean hiding?
- Reposted by Olivia Smith🐳 EPISODE 1 🐳 A brand new podcast about a book about a fish is out now. @leighsus.bsky.social (who's never read a book) and @pdkmitchell.bsky.social (who's read loads) discuss Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, chapter-by-chapter. Listen free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts.
- Goodbye to my favourite boots, which have taken their final steps due to a broken sole. In the past years they have walked me through more danger and adventure than would fill ten normal boot lifetimes. Thank you, dear boots. Adieu.
- Have bitten off more than I can chew. Feel like I'm in a pinnacle verse of 'Went to Mow a Meadow'.
- Who has written the best essay/big footnote on the wordplay/concept 'nothing' in early modern literature?
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- For other Nan Goldin superfans, Ballad of Sexual Dependency is showing at the Gagosian currently. I have loved this photo-essay since I was a teenager. gagosian.com/exhibitions/...
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- Reposted by Olivia SmithSCREAMING. Just learned that the first man to play Mr Blobby was a classically trained Shakespearean actor. BLOBBY OR NOT BLOBBY? ET TU, BLOBBY?
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- Reposted by Olivia SmithI don't know anything about D. H. Lawrence's writing, but his delivery company is a joke.
- First day back in the office and my computer had died by 10, going out with this glitchy, ominous message.
- We got in the habit of having brandy cream in our coffee over the holidays, a habit I am finding hard to break.
- I would like to report the death of a game. Or the disinvolvement of my house in one. Each year, when my boiler is checked, the plumber prints a little receipt-like report and puts it on the boiler with one of my magnets. It is stats about how the boiler is working, but in among them he types,
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- I'd like a lifetime's supply of Epoisses. Assuming this is Santa's cheese wish engine.
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- On St Giles in Oxford the christmas light theme is murderous teddy bears with red, glowing eyes.
- I wanted to repost this as soon as it came out. Anna Ciaunica's work is so interesting to me, I think she's right.
- What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
- I just wanted to say that I hate people saying 'financials' (financial details, accounts) and 'socials' (social media accounts).
- I haven't been on here much. The top inch of my phone screen has stopped working, thereby weaning me off all technology that involves pressing 'send' or 'post', ruining my career as a carrier pigeon and most of my friendships.
- fold one dish
- Reposted by Olivia SmithSo love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
