THE MATTER OF MANNERS In Pursuit of Civility – Manners and Civilisation in Early Modern England Keith Thomas, Yale: New Haven and London, hb., 457 pages Among the Bodleian Library’s celebrated Douce Collection of arcana, incunabula and later works is an instructional manuscript of circa 1350, which contains the first-known written English expression of what… Continue reading
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As I went walking down Broadway…
As I went walking down Broadway… Cities, like men, are embodiments of the past and mirages of unfulfilled dreams Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, Matrix of Man, 1968 The subway train clanked and screeched out of the darkness at last into stretched autumnal sunshine. I rattled northwards in an emptying carriage gazing down on nameless nondescript streets, and… Continue reading