1.23.2012

5 comments:

Erk said...

As I tweeted awhile back-- "as close to a brownie as a French macaron can be." In this instance and context, totally a good thing.

inkysocks said...

yum. what are we doing today? what's the weekly pacquet?

Erk said...

See below! It's nice to have a picture at the top of the feed, so I've decided to post m'goals underneath/before the more traditional blog entries. Sorry, that's more than you needed to know, I know.

The Weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome is a late 17th-c Whig (or opposition) periodical written by Henry Care. It's unusually hard to access. All the pages I need to check are missing from the microfilm. Each issue contains two parts, an ongoing anti-Catholic history of the Catholic church and a more topical bit of partisan raillery. Often the microfilm only captures the history sections, and I'm only interested in the bits of raillery. The story about a Catholic priest trying to seduce a boatswan's boy and the plan to circumcise the priest in retaliation has sadly been excised from our library's holdings... Again, more than anyone needs to know, but xoxo.

inkysocks said...

so what does one do to find the missing sections? i love your list.

Erk said...

I'll keep you posted on the elusive periodical literature of the late 17th-century. These days, it's usually so easy: most stuff's readily available in some online format...