During the "any questions?" part of the DOS meeting, James asked for general advice about the Lent term. Our DOS was quiet for a moment and then said that people generally start to look very pale quite early on, and are sinking fast by week five. "But by week six, they've usually attained clarity and are standing in the light."
It's funny how the course attracts religious imagery, especially the Catholic kind. Supervisions are like catechisms, or sometimes like confession (followed by absolution if you're lucky). Exams are the refining fire, I suppose. The analogy breaks down at graduation, unless you think of the real world as heaven, which I'm not quite prepared to. Of course we're all drama queens and therefore find the idea of being practically encouraged to stress out about work exciting. We stood around in Old Court afterwards discussing it. "Look at us, we're well hard," said Ian. "Hanging outside the chapel."
What I Am Going to Eat Next: raspberries.
How Mary Barton is Going: slightly better than expected. I'm mostly glad I don't have to work as as dressmaker's apprentice for two years for no money in order to be allowed to work for a very small amount of money afterwards. "It just seems like a bad deal," Vicky said. "But it's RESPECTABLE," said Iona, more au fait with the Victorian frame of mind.
What The Weather is Like: sunny. Go, Britain!
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Du vet, det er ikke langt fra Cambridge til katolsk hvasomhelst. Det berömte Cambridge Camden Society fra 1800-tallet, bedre kjent som Ecclesiological Society, var visserligen anglikanske men hadde seriöse katolske tendenser. All arkitektur, liturgi og kirkeinnredning fra tiden etter reformasjonen var tullball og skulle bort; den katolske middelalderen var det som gjalt. Dette fikk enorme konsekvenser for engelsk kirkerestaurering på 1800-tallet, hvilket jeg kan skrive mer om i en kommentar til neste innlegg
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