The things you come across while revising.
May. 7th, 2006 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firstlight"Whom do you trust for advice? Archaeologists (I am one, but not a collector) are on the whole rather jealous and greedy creatures. They are quick to cry out against illicit trade, and against those other scholars who may make academic use of objects from what are taken to be illicit sources (but now in museums or collections), in which case some try to impose a despicable form of censorship (USA). There can be a measure of hypocrisy or even guilt here. All excavation, licit and illicit, is destructive. We dig for information, not objects. No little cultural property is lost through the very common failure of archaeologists to publish what they have found (which is more than objects). And their jealous "squirreling away" of what they have found, so that it can serve neither other scholars nor the education of the public who have paid them, has been described recently by a senior archaeologist/art-historian as a form of necrophilia." - John Boardman, in a memo submitted to parliament
Yeah, of interest to no-one but myself. Again. *coughs* I have a definite urge to cite that comment about necrophilia in an exam now. ^^"
Yeah, of interest to no-one but myself. Again. *coughs* I have a definite urge to cite that comment about necrophilia in an exam now. ^^"
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Date: 2006-05-07 10:34 am (UTC)Kinky. XD
And here I thought I was good enough for you.. But then again, I can't compete against 5000 year old dead musty old romans, now can I? ;____;no subject
Date: 2006-05-07 10:37 am (UTC)hey now! I'm not one of those people. I've never done enough work to be accused of hiding it by not publishing. XDno subject
Date: 2006-05-07 11:22 am (UTC)bearing in mind it was me, her and Lynsey discussing it.And also it makes me think of English Lit classes, I have this vague yet disturbing memory of Sue saying something about Keats and necrophillia, yet can't for the life of me think was it was...
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Date: 2006-05-07 11:31 am (UTC)A Little BitExcessively Kinky....yeah, I'm getting vague English Lit memories as well now. WHAT WAS IT?
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Date: 2006-05-07 11:33 am (UTC)Yes?
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Date: 2006-05-07 11:37 am (UTC)It figures my one memory of Keats was linked to something like that doesn't it really haha.
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Date: 2006-05-07 11:57 am (UTC)I've seen that icon before but it never fails to make me laugh.
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Date: 2006-05-07 12:02 pm (UTC)Chibi Tezuka is love, he actually has expressions
and is married to Fuji ♥which makes me happy. To be fair chibi PoT is love in general XDno subject
Date: 2006-05-07 12:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-07 12:14 pm (UTC)And this is TOTALLY random, but how many eps of GetBackers are there?
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Date: 2006-05-07 12:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-07 12:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-07 11:57 am (UTC)I liked the bit at the end about necrophilia.
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Date: 2006-05-07 11:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-07 03:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-07 10:15 pm (UTC)I've got some holiday prezzie's for you. I'll bring them Wednesday. Amongst other things, I found a cool shop in NY called Evolution: http://www.evolutionnyc.com/
You'd love it.
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Date: 2006-05-08 04:12 pm (UTC)I'm gaming with friends tonight, but I'll try to get in touch at some point? I think Syl would like to come to the British Museum, also.
And I realised that I have to see my tutor on Wednesday but it shouldn't take long and I might be able to reschedule it anyway.
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Date: 2006-05-08 11:08 am (UTC)keep repeating until my head believes me.
I likes that memo. We need to print out excerpts and pin them in the lift.
then scrawl the word "discuss" underneath. possibly in blood.
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Date: 2006-05-08 04:10 pm (UTC)*pets your brain*