Yes! Eliot had read reports of a mission in Antartica where this exact thing had happened, so he incorporated it in the poem. There is a double meaning, obviously, because it’s also a reference to Jesus on the road to Emmaus. But it is very much on purpose. He wrote:
“The following lines were stimulated by the account of one of the Antarctic expeditions (I forget which, but I think one of Shackleton’s): it was related that the party of explorers, at the extremity of their strength, had the constant delusion that there was one more member than could actually be counted”
the basic rundown is: you use the search bar to enter a topic, scientific paper name or DOI. the website then offers you a list of papers on the topic, and you choose the one you’re looking for/most relevant one. from here, it makes a tree diagram of related papers that are clustered based on topic relatability and colour-coded by time they were produced!
for example: here i search “human B12”
i go ahead and choose the first paper, meaning my graph will be based around it and start from the topics of “b12 levels” and “fraility syndrome”
here is the graph output! you can scroll through all the papers included on the left, and clicking on each one shows you it’s position on the chart + will pull up details on the paper on the right hand column (title, authors, citations, abstract/summary and links where the paper can be found)
you get a few free graphs a month before you have to sign up, and i think the free version gives you up to 5 a month. there are paid versions but it really depends how often you need to use this kinda thing.
A beautiful Mesolithic amber figure of a bear. It washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. 12,500-3,900 BCE, now on display at the National Museum of Denmark.
i love when i’m in the car at night and i look out the window and the moon is following me. it’s so romantic. we’ve been doing this since i was a child
Inge Bjørn, who turns 98 today, is a Danish textile artist. She worked for 40 years at Askov Højskole, and has woven tapestries based on works by Asger Jorn and others.
Above: Tæt på Havet, 2007 - silk, linen, and wool (Galleri Tom Christoffersen, København)
“Time was really visible in this sweater. But I also loved the thinness of the yarn and the pointlessness of the exercise. It felt more like it was about preserving a relationship than a need.”
Currently obsessed with this late 1800s Victorian silk-and-velvet quilt my mother brought out of storage, which I was scandalized to have never seen before. The colors are startlingly vivid, and the effect is strangely modern. It was likely the work of my second great grandmother, who lived in Eastern Iowa in the last quarter of the 19th century. Not sure if anyone will see this, given that I haven’t been active in quilting discussions, but I’d welcome any info on quilts of this type and period.
illustration-turned-weaving-turned-quilt, inspired by elm bark beetle feeding galleries in fallen elm trees I often see on my hikes. They are responsible for spreading the fungus that causes dutch elm disease. I traced the pattern with my free motion foot to quilt, and the puffiness of the shapes turned almost topographical in the process.
