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Just occasionally, I have reason to read over an old piece of work, and can appreciate it afresh. Today, it's my 2017 book on the Anglican patron of the arts, Walter Hussey. The book has had little impact, I'm sorry to say, but I'm rather proud of it still.
Details at https://peterwebster.me/wh
nostr:npub15etk5uuwanz5nud3yc8sesqt2drxm9yzdvt09rznrlwzy46ry7ks2tup7a it is remarkable, but as a result, very hard to choose music for. A few years ago I sang Walton's Belshazzar's Feast in there; it was a pretty good performance but must have been all but unintelligible to the hearer: all noise and clatter.
nostr:npub1xpgperec0pgyzhj0umj49xee3ux6wgll7rc44pqzmm89wrxs5xps74apfc nothing written up that's publicly available but generally, knowing that I can't include everything, the criteria have been: two or more nodes; any transmission medium; any topology; must be able to be used for human communication that can be construed as language (so that excludes systems for monitoring, surveillance etc.); and is interesting, unusual, forgotten, and/or important. I think that's just about it!
nostr:npub1vtyne02pedwnyckqkz0dh4wu0px3afvnf2jzqjrhfwcskk62efjs7sl256 very interesting. It may be too old-school for you (and/or tangential) but I've been working on the edited collection of essays as a carrier of network-type things.
https://peterwebster.me/2022/12/13/visualising-english-theology-in-edited-collections/
nostr:npub1vtyne02pedwnyckqkz0dh4wu0px3afvnf2jzqjrhfwcskk62efjs7sl256 I'm intrigued by your many #othernetworks posts. Is there a definition somewhere of what you include/exclude?
It's curious how far apart one's estimation of one's work can be from that of readers. One rather slight paper, written solo after three collaborators dropped out, and nearly abandoned more than once, is widely cited, more so than the three next most cited things combined. A book, the product of a decade's work and close to my heart, has hardly landed at all, six years on.
*shrug emoji*
Update: 1,300 new words down on the page, my first new writing in some months. That feels good, like the return of an old friend.
This morning, a trial run writing a short piece for possible conclusion in a biographical dictionary: the Anglican welfare worker and educationalist Mollie Batten (1905-85).
Having written two biography-like books, I find the task of writing these very short lives both akin to the long form, and really quite different.
Well, well: I hadn't registered that one of the principal actors alongside Richard Burton and John Hurt in the film version of '1984' is also.... Rab C. Nesbitt (ie. Gregor Fisher).