Today's poem:
The Day of Judgement
- by Jonathan Swift
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/787402314493427712/the-day-of-judgement?source=share
#JonathanSwift #poetry #judgement #Jove #humanity #religions #condemnation
#jonathanswift
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this infallible sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
-- Jonathan Swift
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JonathanSwift #Genius #Mediocrity
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida
The Achilles heel of creepy weirdos is they hate, hate, hate being laughed at.
Comedy is their kryptonite.
Satire is salt in their psychic wounds.
After all, #JonathanSwift made a modest proposal, in the spirit of #Juvenal.
A modest proposal about popes...
So, another pope has died and his ashes will soon be emitted from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel. It is time to select a new pope.
But the pope has presided over a seemingly endless series of scandals for generations. They keep electing new popes, but the problems never go away. Why can't they solve these problems?
Looking for commonalities among all the popes of the last century or so, one stood out to me: they're all Catholic!
Maybe they should try choosing a nice Unitarian, or perhaps a Wiccan? They'd have at least as good a chance of solving the problems as the last umpteen Catholic popes. Maybe even better.
It's worth a shot.
(V jbaqre ubj znal ercyl thlf jvyy rnearfgyl rkcynva gb zr jul gur cbcr zhfg or Pngubyvp.)
#pope #selection #conclave #Swift #JonathanSwift #AModestProposal #catholic #wiccan #unitarian #cardinal
Names of Craters on Phobos, discovered in 1877. You may recognize some of them? #Swift #TeamEnglish #literature #satire #astronomy #science #telescope #scifi #moon #JonathanSwift #18thcentury #19thcentury #cartography #lunar
Lecture du moment: Un bond dans la littérature satirique du 18eme siècle grace au roman Les Voyages extraordinaires de Gulliver écrit par Jonathan Swift en 1721… Les premiers chapitres sont amusants, j’ai hâte de lire la suite ! Très belle journée à tous 😉 #lecture #romansatirique #litterature #gulliver #jonathanswift
Useless quote for 10 Mar:
"How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning?"
~ Jonathan Swift, in "Thoughts on various subjects", 1711-1726
Damn you #JonathanSwift!
If you had only kept your mouth shut! 😂😂😂
> He then commanded six-and-thirty of the lads, to read the several lines softly, as they appeared upon the frame; and where they found three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes.
This work was repeated three or four times, and at every turn, the engine was so contrived, that the words shifted into new places, as the square bits of wood moved upside down.
…
> He assured me “that this invention had employed all his thoughts from his youth; that he had emptied the whole vocabulary into his frame, and made the strictest computation of the general proportion there is in books between the numbers of particles, nouns, and verbs, and other parts of speech
via #thechipletter’s latest, https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-engine
Merde alors (allora, merda) – di Ed Emery https://effimera.org/merde-alors-allora-merda-di-ed-emery/ #“TabelladellefecidiBristol” #UniversitàdiCambridge #SOASShitConference #campagna“Poonami” #WilliamBurroughs #progettoOVERDUE #“MerdeAlors!” #JonathanSwift #Crinali #EdEmery #PèreUbu #Macron #merda #Gaza
@CastlebridgeChief’s latest article for #TDAN is out today. #DataGovernance meets the ghost of #JonathanSwift. What’s not to like? https://tdan.com/data-is-risky-business-structured-unstructured-who-cares/32252
On this day in 1667 Jonathan Swift, poet, satirist and clergyman was born in Dublin. He was an Anglican cleric and became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
Josef Hader: «Witze sollen nachdenklich machen» | Sternstunde Philosophie
https://youtube.com/watch?v=W1QcSJF_GDs
#JosefHader #Hader #Humor #Kabarett #Komik #Satire #Witze #Philosophie #JonathanSwift #Aufklärung
“Neck or nothing” in Thomas Hardy’s “The Trumpet-Major” (1880). #111Words #ThomasHardy #TheTrumpetMajor #NeckOrNothing #JonathanSwift #WilliamCowper #CharlesDickens #SketchesByBoz #OED #Novels #Idioms https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/11/neck-or-nothing-in-thomas-hardys.html
Useless quote for 12 Nov:
"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the world see them to be in downright nonsense."
~Jonathan Swift, under the nom de plume "Tobiah Greenhat", in The Tatler No. 63 (1-3 Sep 1709)
"Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…" - Jonathan Swift, “The Examiner”, year 1710
#FWakeYear1710 //\\ #FWakeY1710 #FWake1710 #JonathanSwift //\\
Jonathan Swift died in Dublin on 19 October 1745. He was an Anglo-Irish satirist, poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #Dublin #JonathanSwift #OnThisDay
Literarischer #19Oktober
„Gesetze sind wie Spinnweben, die kleine Fliegen fangen, aber Wespen und Hornissen entkommen lassen.“
#JonathanSwift #CriticalEssay Tod 1745
Useless quote for 11 Sep:
"… reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired …"
~ Jonathan Swift, 1720
Depending upon one's definition, either John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678) or Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" (1726) could be called the first English fantasy novel. They both provide numerous imaginary continents, along with maps for context.
#BookologyThursday #BookChatWeekly #31DaysofHaunting #literature #fantasy #map #JonathanSwift #GulliversTravels #PilgrimsProgress
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