"What can this world more afford / Than a lass who will sociably sit on my knee?"

[larryhammer]

The internets continues to have more cool things --

More world music: Debashish Bhattacharya plays Indian classical music on (modified) Hawaiian slide guitar: Calcutta Slide Guitar volume 3. Sah-weeeet. (via)

More flight: footage from a cam strapped to the back of an eagle soaring in the Alps. Stunning. (via)

More questions: Why are there so many medieval illuminations of knights fighting snails? THIS IS IMPORTANT YOU KNOW. (via)

What goodness have you across lately?

Subject quote from "The Wine Vault" by George Alexander Stevens, who apparently didn't appreciate cabana boys.

---L.

Comments

Re: Fighting the snail

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

[ETA oh for goodness' sake, LJ, not everything with a link is spam]

Do you know about Carl Pyrdum's blog, Got Medieval? The old "Mmm… Marginalia" posts (he seems not to use categories or tags) have boatloads of odd--sometimes not at all unusual!--bits of MS art which may help to contextualize these snails (without, y'know, going and looking at hundreds of European medieval MSS oneself).

Re: Fighting the snail

[larryhammer]

I know of the blog, but not those posts. I will archive-binge post-haste.

---L.