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Raphanidosis: the birth of the vegetable tortures.
Rhaphanidosis is the act of inserting the root of a plant of the raphanogenus (commonly known as a radish) into the anus. It is mentioned by Aristophanes as a punishment for adultery in classical Athens in the fifth and fourth century BC. … Continue reading
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Tagged ceramics, consumption, pleionexia, The Vegetable Tortures
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SylvaC Stories: Bunny Boilers.
Once upon a time, rather more years ago than I care to remember, I found a dear little green pottery bunny in a junk shop on the Isle of Wight. As I have a predilection for green ceramic items I … Continue reading
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Tagged art, bunnies, ceramics, collectors, Greed, parasite, pleionexia, Plumbing, shelf life, SylvaC
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La Fontana delle Scimmie.*
*warning blog post contains references to Florence (again) This is the Museo delle Porcellane di Boboli, an exquisitely faded small palazzo in the gardens of the Pitti Palace. It has a superb collection of porcelain and chinaware and delicious … Continue reading
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Tagged art, boboli personality, ceramics, consumption, Florence, la Specola, museum, pleionexia, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, sculpture
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We Have Lost the Taste for Acorns.
About 2000 years ago the Roman philosopher Lucretius wrote: “We have lost our taste for acorns. So we have abandoned those couches littered with herbage and heaped with leaves. So the wearing of wild beasts’ skins has gone out of fashion … Continue reading
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Tagged acorns, Aristotle, art, Lucretius, oak, pleionexia, sculpture, slugs, Tinkers Bubble
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Lares et Penates II: Knick Knacks
The Oxford dictionary defines a knick knack as a “cheap ornament, trinket, trifle, bauble, bric-a-brac, bagatelle, gimcrack, gewgaw, bibelot or kickshaw.” A sample sentence in the dictionary uses the word thus – “Her flat is overflowing with knick knacks.” But … Continue reading
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Tagged a dainty rogue in porcelain, ceramics, Mark Twain, pleionexia, Richard Slee
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An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles.
J.B.S. Haldane (a British geneticist and evolutionary biologist) was asked by a group of theologians what he had learnt about the Creator from the study of creation. Haldane, an atheist, is alleged to have replied “If one could conclude as to … Continue reading
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Tagged beetles, Bob and Roberta Smith, boboli personality, D'Arcy Thompson, dr Seuss, dundee, Florence, Hospitalfield, Insects, la Specola, museum, pleionexia
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The Grapes of Wrath
On one of my forays along the Arno I came across a creeper that was covered with what I described to myself as “lumpy leaves’. So lumpy in fact, that at first I thought they were berries. On closer examination … Continue reading
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Tagged Arno, Bedeguar Gall, boboli personality, consumption, Greed, Phylloxera, plant galls, pleionexia
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