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35d

How to teach yourself linguistics

The complete DIY reading list + curriculum

Colin Gorrie

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-to-teach-yourself-linguistics-reading-list-curriculum

Books about Comparative linguistics at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/19696

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Forest Landscape in the Moonlight (1861), Georg Eduard Otto Saal.

Moonlit forest landscape in muted greens and greys. A stag stands on rocks at a still pond’s edge, another deer partly hidden in the water, beneath a bare, pale-barked birch. The full moon glows through clouds, reflecting on the dark water.

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9d

Rising in November in these days of dusk
I am one life older, watching now as the walls
green over, the stones break into bud;
if this is ebb-tide turned to flood it means that
nightfall might begin again at dawn…

—Robin Robertson, “Crossing the Archipelago”
published in SAILING THE FOREST (Picador, 2014)

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/robin-robertson/sailing-the-forest/9781447231554

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Crossing the Archipelago
Robin Robertson

Rising in November in these days of dusk
I am one life older, watching now as the walls
green over, the stones break into bud;
if this is ebb-tide turned to flood it means that
nightfall might begin again at dawn.
And so it does. The sea at Djurgården is a mirror
of lost light. I watch snowflakes fall on water,
transparent as tissue, melting back to nothing,
the black water’s endless echo of the night.
A diminished life turns turtle and the day breaks
like a spell; to double back on this, through
ash and silver birch, to that extinguished past, a world
that’s over, will wreck me. Hopeless to return
now: my future lit by bridges, and their burning.

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9d

Liz Lochhead’s MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS GOT HER HEAD CHOPPED OFF
13 Feb–6 Mar 2027
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow

Heaving with theatricality & gallus wit, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off weaves political relevance with fairytale storytelling. 40 years since it first premiered, this major new production brings the Scottish classic to a new generation of audiences.

https://citz.co.uk/whats-on/mary-queen-of-scots-got-her-head-chopped-off/

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The opening page of Liz Lochhead's play, MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS GOT HER HEAD CHOPPED OFF

ACT ONE
SCENE ONE – SCOTLAND, WHIT LIKE?

(Alone, FIDDLER charges up the space with eldritch tune, wild and sad, then goes. Enter into the ring, whip in hand, our 'chorus', LA CORBIE. An interesting, ragged ambiguous creature in her cold spotlight)

LA CORBIE: Country: Scotland. Whit like is it?
It's a peatbog, it's a daurk forest.
It's a cauldron o' lye, a saltpan or a coal mine.
If you're gey lucky it's a bricht bere meadow or a park o' kye.
Or mibbe ... it's a field o' stanes.
It's a tenement or a merchant's ha'.
It's a hure hoose or a humble cot. Princes Street or Paddy's Merkit.
It's a fistfu' o' fish or a pickle o' oatmeal.
It's a queen's banquet o' roast meats and junkets.
It depends. It depends ... Ah dinna ken whit like your Scotland is. Here's mines.
National flower: the thistle.
National pastime: nostalgia.
National weather: smirr, haar, drizzle, snow.
National bird: the crow, the corbie, le corbeau, moi!
How me? Eh? Eh? Eh? Voice like a choked laugh. Ragbag o' a burd in ma black duds, a' angles and elbows and broken oxter feathers, black beady een in ma executioner's hood. No braw, but Ah think Ah ha'e a sort of black glamour.
Do I no put ye in mind of a skating minister, or, on the other fit, the parish priest, the dirty beast?
My nest's a rickle o' sticks.
I live on lamb's eyes and road accidents.
Oh, see, after the battle, after the battle, man, it's a pure feast – ma eyes are ower big even for my belly, in lean years o' peace, my belly thinks my throat's been cut.

(Laughing, LA CORBIE cracks whip for THE ENTRANCE OF THE ANIMALS. In a strange circus our characters, gorgeous or pathetic, parade: MARY, ELIZABETH, HEPBURN, DANCER/RICCIO, KNOX, DARNLEY all dirty and down on his luck. They circle, snarling, smiling, posing. And halt. Drumbeat ceases. With both Queens by the hand, parading them)

Once upon a time there were twa queens on the wan green island, and the wan green island was split inty twa kingdoms ...

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8d

The Piano Juries
https://subspacewagon.systems/new-book-the-piano-juries-the-last-book-with-god/

When God leaves
https://subspacewagon.systems/the-aftermath-when-god-leaves-cross-posted/

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9d

The Rendication Of Myth

https://subspacewagon.systems/new-chapbook-the-rendication-of-myth/

The Ambush of Time

https://subspacewagon.systems/new-chapbook-the-ambush-of-time/

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9d

New book – The Piano Juries, the last book with God

https://subspacewagon.systems/new-book-the-piano-juries-the-last-book-with-god/

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9d

willow anchors shame

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8d

Three clouds in the sky joining hands
https://subspacewagon.systems/three-clouds-in-the-sky-joining-hands/

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9d

Street Sweepers and Play-doh Artillery

https://subspacewagon.systems/street-sweepers-and-play-doh-artillery/

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9d

Hamish Henderson Memorial Lecture
14 November, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh. Free

Dr Stephanie Smith, former Archives Director at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage in Washington DC, recalls a lifetime of learning from & alongside Hamish Henderson, & reflects on his impact across her life & career.

https://scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:6916/913:30818/

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42d

10 Literary Translators on the Art of Translation

"Like the ghostwriter, the translator must slip on a second skin."

by Emily Temple

https://lithub.com/10-literary-translators-on-the-art-of-translation/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01M3HFF1V5N7DSGPM3ZEGE5QTC&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER

Books by translators at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=translators

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Engraved frontispiece portrait of an elderly, bearded gentleman writing at a book-covered desk, with a small coat-of-arms visible in the upper left.

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8d

Recent books

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8d

The mighty Mavors, jealous to behold
A Mars more mighty nor himself below,
Did once resolve his rivall to ore’throw…

—Sir Robert Ayton (1569–1638), “Upon the 5th of November”
published in JACOBEAN PARNASSUS: Scottish Poetry from the Reign of James I (ASL, 2022)

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/jacobean-parnassus/

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Robert Ayton
Upon the 5th of November

The mighty Mavors, jealous to behold
A Mars more mighty nor himself below,
Did once resolve his rivall to ore’throw
By assassins, whome open force made bold.
But finding there that open force did fold
Under the princely valour of his foe,
Hee then determin’d to assayle him soe
As noe defence should his offence withhold.
Thus comes he downe to Plutoes pale abode,
And there for fyre and brimstone straight doth call,
Wherewith he thinks to play the thundering god,
And make the world admire his ryvall’s fall.
But sease, fond Mars, to make the world to wonder;
Ten thousand lawrells save’s our Mars from thunder.

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42d

We were turning that too heavy earth too long,
Too long and at the wrong time –
Days of rain had made a world of clay that clung

To our spades, gripped like misery…

—Wayne Price, “Allotment”
from The Flight of the Turtle: New Writing Scotland 29 (ASL, 2011)

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Wayne Price
Allotment

We were turning that too heavy earth too long,
Too long and at the wrong time –
Days of rain had made a world of clay that clung

To our spades, gripped like misery. Why were we
Digging so long and so late?
It was autumn, it was night; I cannot see

My father beside me even in memory.
Why was it he would not stop
And scrape our spades’ steel faces clean on the heel

Of his black boot? What kept us from home? What
Use was I there, as if
With a toothpick to roll a weight that felt

The great drowned deadweight of the globe? The dark
Above and below was one
Clay that fastened leaf and root. Bright canopies of oak

And beech repeat themselves inside the soil;
Behind the eye the brain’s white
Branches work so hard to right the world. Who is still

In that allotment, speechless, boy or man in the dark?
Finding or burying I
Did as I now would: leaned blind into the work.

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42d

Women of the Saltire Society
20 October, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Free, ticketed

Join the Saltire Society for a special event celebrating the women whose contributions have helped shape the Saltire Society & Scotland’s cultural life

The event will also offer a unique opportunity to view archival material especially on display for the day, & to visit the Saltire Society’s 90th anniversary exhibition

https://events.humanitix.com/women-of-the-saltire-society

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35d

4 Must-Read Works by Edgar Allan Poe (& Why You Should Read Them)

Edgar Allan Poe shaped horror, mystery, and detective fiction. These dark tales and haunting poems reveal his genius.

https://www.thecollector.com/edgar-allan-poe-must-read-works/

Poe at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/481

#books #literature #poetry

This black-and-white drawing of Edgar Allan Poe by Aubrey Beardsley shows Poe with a high forehead, dark shadowed eyes, a thick mustache, and wavy dark hair parted to one side. He wears mid-19th-century clothes: a high-collared jacket and a neatly tied cravat or neckerchief. In the lower-left corner, there is a small graphic with vertical lines and drops of liquid, which looks like a stylized quill or ink design.

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35d

Saturation Memos And Poems

https://archive.org/details/saturation-memos-and-poems-by-richard-j-tilley

Notes And Customs

https://archive.org/details/notes-and-customs-by-richard-j-tilley_202605

Trilogy related to PhD from God
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35d

Darkland Tales: Crafting Scottish Fiction from Historical Fact
10 December, Edinburgh, & online. Free.

Join acclaimed writers from Polygon’s Darkland Tales series for a thought-provoking panel discussion on historical reimagining. Speakers include award-winning novelists Val McDermid & Graeme Macrae Burnet, Geographer Royal for Scotland Jo Sharp, & writer & broadcaster Jamie Crawford.

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6d

Upon the Written Hours
https://archive.org/details/upon-the-written-hours-richard-jtilley/Upon%20The%20Writte%20Hours%20by%20Richard%20J%20Tilley/

More Songs
https://archive.org/details/more-songs-the-true-name-of-a-friend-by-richard-j-tilley

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8d

Hugh Miller: the David Attenborough of his day
4 December, Elgin Museum. £6.13

A fossil hunter, folklorist, man of faith, stonemason, geologist, editor, writer & social justice campaigner, find out why Hugh Miller is one of the great Scots of the 19th century – & why he deserves the title of “the David Attenborough of his day”

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hugh-miller-the-david-attenborough-of-his-day-tickets-2004167394628

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6d

Writers Speak: Douglas Stuart in conversation with Charlie Tyson

Recorded on 6 October at Harvard University: Douglas Stuart reads from & discusses his latest novel, 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯

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41d

Writing Advice From Edgar Allan Poe

Author Emily Ogden shares writing advice from Edgar Allan Poe, specifically from his essay “The Philosophy of Composition.”

https://www.writersdigest.com/writing-advice-from-edgar-allan-poe

The Philosophy of Composition at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55749

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41d

Video: Syrian man breaks wall to reveal library hidden in 2011

The collection included hundreds of books, Quranic ijazat, certificates and money.

https://www.siasat.com/video-syrian-man-breaks-wall-to-reveal-library-hidden-in-2011-3543876/

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41d

Keepers of the Light
Currently on BBC Sounds

For generations, the Stevenson family built lighthouses around Scotland’s coast. Robert Louis Stevenson was expected to do the same – but instead, he chose to write. Keepers of the Light explores the uneasy boundary between art & engineering, & how one extraordinary family shared an impulse to create in very different forms.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031py0

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9d

Who Are The Ainu People? Inside The Rich History And Culture Of The East Asian Indigenous Group

By Ella Spitz | Edited By Cara Johnson

The Ainu were hunter-gatherers who lived across Japan and into southeastern Russia, but centuries of forced assimilation have virtually eliminated their language and traditions.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/ainu

Books about Ainus at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/15285

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