Secret histories of code-breaking : #TheCodicoteCodex

Secret histories of code-breaking : #TheCodicoteCodex

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17 May

Secret histories of code-breaking : #TheCodicoteCodex

In detective mode, presented with a very carefully composed photo, we have to suspect that there's more going on here than may meet the eye...

1) First of all, the purposeful lady in smart attire - immediately at the most natural point for us to register her.#TheCodicoteCodex pic.twitter.com/QasFvWKIU3

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2) Yes, and maybe - because we naturally next look at the vehicles - we then don't ever think to notice the open window... ?

[The large window, in the property that abuts* the neighbouring public-house.]

* Or does it adjoin it, too ?#TheCodicoteCodex pic.twitter.com/tJzXLf592D

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3) We are unmistakably told the date - 17 August 1935** - and it is possible that there may be good reason to credit it**.

** Except that it's given to us in exact reverse - '1935 August 17'.#TheCodicoteCodex pic.twitter.com/TK4oEJk2P9

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4) At On This Day [@OnThisDaycom], they have more for us :

It was a Saturday, 88 years and 9 months ago,,,https://t.co/aUrujEHviA#TheCodicoteCodex

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#ExamTime in, and at, an uncertain age : ai-powered approaches to question-setting

#ExamTime in, and at, an uncertain age : ai-powered approaches to question-setting

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10 May

#ExamTime in, and at, an uncertain age : ai-powered approaches to question-setting

In memoriam, Charles Hunt, RIP

Discuss themes of despair and destruction, and how they are invoked, in this poem by William Carlos Williams.#ExamTime

1 / 3

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If, instead, this poem had been written by Sappho (and this were a translation made by Robert Lowell in circa 1943), how - if at all - would your answer differ, and why ?#ExamTime

2 / 3

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If, yet again, this were considered, by its author, to be prose (rather than, principally, poetry), and had perhaps been written by the lead examiner (who may be a published poet), how also - if at all - would your answer differ, and why ?#ExamTime

3 / 3

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Maybe coming to a universe of examination-halls* near you (soon)... ?
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* You know the ones : where you're suddenly aware that you are still wearing your slippers, or pyjamas - or that you forgot to revise !


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Some Twaddle about The Scottish Play...

Some Twaddle about The Scottish Play...

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4 May

Some Twaddle about The Scottish Play...

Jacobean theatre (following Tillyard & Molesworth)

Thane of Cawdor : Is this a dagger which I see before me / The handle toward my hand ?

Groundling 1 : Well, is it - or is it a quarter-pounder with cheese ?

Groundling 2 : If it is, mate, chuck it here - I'm famished ! !

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Groundling 3 : Nah, shut it, you two - can't you see it's a half-pounder, no cheese, but with a generous helping of tomato, red onion and lettuce and lashings of burger-sauce ? !

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Groundling 4 starts arguing that burgers being mistaken for a dagger lacks any credence, but Groundling 3 retorts that it's dark in the castle corridors, Glamis doesn't want to be seen, and is high on the dopaminergic cascades of his heat-oppressed brain.https://t.co/7ShtY0nObN

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Unsatisfied, Groundling 4 contends that, even when eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, by a dagger of the mind, the false creation must be a longer foodstuff that calls Glamis back to his room for a pre-murder snack - a duck wrap with hoisin sauce or a sausage-roll, say.

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With any luck, popular acclaim won't require any more on this...


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