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Matthew Lloyd
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by Amy Jeffs
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"St Agnes' Day (the last feast day in January); Jeffs uses this to highlight the iconography of sainthood through the Royal Gold Cup in the British Museum, showing the short life of St Agnes. I still find Jeffs' storytelling a little flat, but the historical information is always interesting." — Jan 21, 2026 12:49PM
"St Agnes' Day (the last feast day in January); Jeffs uses this to highlight the iconography of sainthood through the Royal Gold Cup in the British Museum, showing the short life of St Agnes. I still find Jeffs' storytelling a little flat, but the historical information is always interesting." — Jan 21, 2026 12:49PM
“All TV is educational. The question is, ‘What are we teaching?”
― Star Trek: The Next Generation 365
― Star Trek: The Next Generation 365
“Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands.”
― Jingo
― Jingo
“I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.”
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“There’s nothing wrong with being happy. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying something so much that it strips away all that irony and cynicism. And there’s nothing wrong with loving anything so much that it feels like it could pull your heart out of your chest and toss it on the floor. We build ourselves up to not do that, and then we build up the armor so thickly that we have trouble finding what’s underneath. We use that as an excuse to lash out at people who do feel stuff, who do like things (and I am, of course, mostly saying this about myself). It’s hard sometimes to remember that the world isn’t a place to glide through, so nothing can touch you. It’s a place to be experienced.”
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