My poem "Fascination" has been accepted by Not One of Us. It was inspired by my remembering the discovery of a so-called sorceress' toolkit at Pompeii in 2019. English fascinate derives from Latin fascinō—charm, enchant, bewitch. It all goes back to the winged phallus of the fascinus, such as resides in my glass-fronted cabinet beside the wooden puzzle of a sphinx, the piece of sea-blue Roman glass from Caesarea and the chunk of concrete and white tesserae from Campania, and necklaces by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
handful_ofdust and elisem. Everyone has their talismans. Have some links.
1. The City of Somerville has approved a mask mandate for all indoor spaces effective immediately. One should probably not say, finally.
2. Courtesy of a friend who is not on DW: "a friendly request for visitors not to try to use the Magna Carta to seize The Museum of English Rural Life." The comments go on to be delightful.
3. Courtesy ofselkie: star stones. I had known about snake-stones, but not these.
4. Courtesy of same: Loki at Pompeii. It makes me extremely happy to know that Tom Hiddleston has a use for his double first in Classics in his ordinary life.
5. I don't have access to the original paper, but I love the news: "Baby bats babble, much like human infants."
I am frequently indifferent to TCM's Summer Under the Stars, but today's star is Van Heflin, to whom I am not indifferent at all. There are even films on the schedule I haven't seen. I want to be able to write about things again.
handful_ofdust and elisem. Everyone has their talismans. Have some links.1. The City of Somerville has approved a mask mandate for all indoor spaces effective immediately. One should probably not say, finally.
2. Courtesy of a friend who is not on DW: "a friendly request for visitors not to try to use the Magna Carta to seize The Museum of English Rural Life." The comments go on to be delightful.
3. Courtesy of
selkie: star stones. I had known about snake-stones, but not these.4. Courtesy of same: Loki at Pompeii. It makes me extremely happy to know that Tom Hiddleston has a use for his double first in Classics in his ordinary life.
5. I don't have access to the original paper, but I love the news: "Baby bats babble, much like human infants."
I am frequently indifferent to TCM's Summer Under the Stars, but today's star is Van Heflin, to whom I am not indifferent at all. There are even films on the schedule I haven't seen. I want to be able to write about things again.
