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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Thirteen Tweeets about Civil War (2024) : #CivilWarAndAlexGarland (work in progress)

Thirteen Tweeets about Civil War (2024) : #CivilWarAndAlexGarland (work in progress)

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Thirteen Tweeets about Civil War (2024) : #CivilWarAndAlexGarland (work in progress)

1) Even with a road-trip* (especially ?), a director should earn the right to behave as if a film's emotionally taken anyone somewhere else :

Hanging affectless exchanges in the air may make other, flat scenes seem pacy, but is unsubtle.

* Ostensibly.#CivilWarAndAlexGarland

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2) Civil War (2024) establishes no more on-screen relationship or rapport between Jessie (Cailee Spaeny) and Lee Smith (Kirsten Dunst) than with Joe (Wagner Moura) or Sammy (Stephen McKinley), yet thinks us willing to behave as if it had done.

But...#CivilWarAndAlexGarland

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3) Also from A24, but wholly unlike C'mon, C'mon (2021) - a different type of Jesse, and Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) learning from his nephew* in a process of the former's unmasking and self-realization.

* Very ably and effectively played by Woody Norman.#CivilWarAndAlexGarland

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4) However, it has a reason *not* to be that type of film, which relates to why Joe, who is already accompanying Lee, is on the trip and – which seems plausible – to what makes him tick, but Joe is 'thinly written' and this feint does not earn its place.#CivilWarAndAlexGarland

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6) At first, maybe the lack of good or considered dialogue could be read as denoting the characters' fatigue*, but the misdirections also [need to] abound to make us not just want to quit.

* As well as a stultifying effect that tends to lead to ours !#CivilWarAndAlexGarland

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7) (A film set in Austria (?) that Michael Haneke made in German – then, 10yrs later and with an American cast, re-shot in English – dares us to leave, too : it and a Peter Gabriel song [on the album Up (2002)] tells us all that Garland does in 109 mins.)#CivilWarAndAlexGarland

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The 'Fits to the rhythm of Eleanor Rigby' Tweets : #EleanorRigbyRhythms

The 'Fits to the rhythm of Eleanor Rigby' Tweets : #EleanorRigbyRhythms

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The 'Fits to the rhythm of Eleanor Rigby' Tweets : #EleanorRigbyRhythms

Lennon McCartney

Fits to the rhythm of Eleanor Rigby#EleanorRigbyRhythms

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Fr. Ted Crilly

Fits to the rhythm of Eleanor Rigby#EleanorRigbyRhythms

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Sheridan Morley

Fits to the rhythm of Eleanor Rigby#EleanorRigbyRhythms

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Eric and Ernie

Fits to the rhythm of Eleanor Rigby #EleanorRigbyRhythms

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The Totally New (and Gratuitous) #BeatUpBeatles Tweets

The Totally New (and Gratuitous) #BeatUpBeatles Tweets

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26 February

The Totally New (and Gratuitous) #BeatUpBeatles Tweets

I am The Onion

Happiness is a Warm Walrus#BeatUpBeatles

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On finding a DVD of Underworld (2003), understandably abandoned by an ex's ex

On finding a DVD of Underworld (2003), understandably abandoned by an ex's ex

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24 February

On finding a DVD of Underworld (2003), understandably abandoned by an ex's ex

Michael S.'s part was clearly written for Rik Mayall, Bill N.'s for NE Other, and, when not stomping, Kate's repertoire, is limited to looking as if deducing, trap-hole descents and flinging doors open that she doesn't need to kick unlocked.

[Fans of these films needn't reply !]

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If there's any reason to continue with it (is it so bad that it's just very bad* ?), maybe more...



* The buried non-treasure implied by the title.


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#OldSawsAndSayings : A Useful Collection

#OldSawsAndSayings : A Useful Collection

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20 February

#OldSawsAndSayings : A Useful Collection

It's better to be safe than sentient#OldSawsAndSayings No. 1

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A bird in the hand is one sure way of getting it pecked, crapped on or both#OldSawsAndSayings No. 2

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He who laughs last shall miss the bus (or boat)#OldSawsAndSayings No. 3

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Foot loose - and fancy falling over ?#OldSawsAndSayings No. 4

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