The things you come across while revising.

[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. ^^"

Comments

[dystopiarcadia.livejournal.com]

I knew it! Pretending to poke bones and act all serious about, when you're in it for the necrophilia!

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? ;____;

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Bad Syl. XD

hey now! I'm not one of those people. I've never done enough work to be accused of hiding it by not publishing. XD

[blue-emotion.livejournal.com]

Ahhh necrophillia...it seems I can't go a week without hearing that word. It is actually starting to disturb me ^_0 Last weekend it was Helen pondering whether Muraki was practicing necrophillia with Tsuzuki, and the discussion that followed hurt my brain 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...

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Muraki: Everything He Does Is A Little Bit Excessively Kinky.

...yeah, I'm getting vague English Lit memories as well now. WHAT WAS IT?

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

OH! OH! I KNOW! She was talking about Isabella and the Pot of Basil. XDDD "All kinds of unpleasantness... necrophilia... gardening."

Yes?

[blue-emotion.livejournal.com]

YES! That was it! I was then thinking she said something about gardening at the same time hehe, my icon reminded me haha!

It figures my one memory of Keats was linked to something like that doesn't it really haha.

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Ah, Sue. You taught us all we know about the romantic poets. Such.... useful, normal things. ^_^

I've seen that icon before but it never fails to make me laugh.

[blue-emotion.livejournal.com]

*sniggers* To be fair it's us, and when have we ever liked normal things *grins*

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 XD

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

The other thing I remember is "Romantic poets had to die young. It was sort of compulsory, along with those frilly shirts and all of that. Wordsworth was about the only one who didn't, and look what happened to him." XD

[blue-emotion.livejournal.com]

*snerk* oh yes XD

And this is TOTALLY random, but how many eps of GetBackers are there?

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

err. 49, possibly.

[blue-emotion.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. In that case I'm going to have to buy some more blank discs...haha. I can only fit 4 on a disc 0_o

[forochel.livejournal.com]

*snickers*

I liked the bit at the end about necrophilia.

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was the bit that prompted me to post it, really. XD

[postingwhore.livejournal.com]

On an unrelated note, happy 20th birthday!

[elenya54.livejournal.com]

Another opportunity for me to wish you Happy Birthday :kiss:

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.

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Ooh cool! Looks interesting.

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.

[cyrus-ii.livejournal.com]

Not hungover. Repeat.

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.

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Snerk. I was actually not hung over. And I survived the exam okay! Woohoo!

*pets your brain*