{"id":18859,"date":"2023-10-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18859"},"modified":"2023-10-27T23:11:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T03:11:36","slug":"old-book-love-a-pub-renewed-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18859","title":{"rendered":"Old Book Love, a Pub Renewed, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Two Antique Books: Shakespeare and Spenser\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7OUXv9dyZ3w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a Thoroughly Professional Video showing a couple of my antique books. They aren&#8217;t commercially valuable, but they&#8217;re pretty and have the humanistic value of a great books. On the left is the Complete Works of Shakespeare, a Walter J. Black edition, which I think means it&#8217;s cheap. I say it&#8217;s leather bound, but I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s imitation leather. On the right is the Works of Edmund Spenser, an 1895 MacMillan edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s too bad I don&#8217;t have something really nice to show you, but I may record more physical books to better reveal their tangible value, especially if I can up my A\/V quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Inklings<\/strong>: &#8220;The Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) has purchased the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordstudent.com\/2023\/10\/26\/historic-eagle-and-child-pub-to-reopen\/\">historic Eagle and Child pub on St Giles\u2019<\/a> from St John\u2019s College, with plans to refurbish and reopen the space to the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Poetry<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com\/2023\/10\/life-is-slow-dying.html\">From Philip Larkin<\/a><br>&#8220;For nations vague as weed,<br>For nomads among stones,<br>Small-statured cross-faced tribes<br>And cobble-close families<br>In mill-towns on dark mornings<br>Life is slow dying.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Horror<\/strong>: Mike Duran has written on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikeduran.com\/2023\/10\/25\/christian-horror-2nd-edition-is-now-live\/\">horror stories and how they fit with a Christian worldview<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, some of the story of the man who portrayed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/exorcising-his-demons\">Father Damien Karras in <em>The Exorcist<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">(Photo: &#8220;The Eagle and Child,&#8221; Hofendorf\/ Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a Thoroughly Professional Video showing a couple of my antique books. They aren&#8217;t commercially valuable, but they&#8217;re pretty and have the humanistic value of a great books. On the left is the Complete Works of Shakespeare, a Walter J. Black edition, which I think means it&#8217;s cheap. I say it&#8217;s leather bound, but I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18859\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Old Book Love, a Pub Renewed, and More<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5,7,11],"tags":[4934,1236,1298,1345,2555],"class_list":["post-18859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-social-media","category-coffee-tea-drinks","category-fiction","category-poetry","tag-edmund-spenser","tag-horror","tag-inklings","tag-j-r-r-tolkien","tag-shakespeare"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18861,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18859\/revisions\/18861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}