What I saw on the web on 2025.1.9

[reblogarythm]

1. "Rouen is the rainiest place"
   by James Joyce after T.S.Eliot
   https://www.amerlit.com/humor/HUMOR%20Joyce,%20James%20Parody%20The%20Waste%20Land.pdf
   i'd apparently misremembered the first line, whch is why i'd not seen this in some years. still goofy.
   via discord
   
   
2. The Mathematician So Strange the FBI Thought He Was a Spy
   by Tibees
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZQqfy5A1k4
   ok, i knew Erdős was a weirdo, but i don't think i'd ever heard about the FBI angle before
   via youtube recommends
   
   
3. Documentary Film on Dhrupad
   by Ashish Sankrityayan
   https://dhrupad1234.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/documentary-film-on-dhrupad/
   i'll have of course to watch this at some point
   via rss
   
   
4. The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism
   by Julie Philips
   https://lithub.com/the-way-of-water-on-the-quiet-power-of-ursula-k-le-guins-activism/
   excellent reminders about UKLG.
   via discord