Pinned
An abbreviation of the name 'Perpetua' in a c.9th century manuscript. Very satisfying!
P with a line through = per
& = et
Dr Mary Hitchman
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Dr Mary Hitchman
@maryhitchman
Women’s authorship pre-1000 • text cultures and manuscripts • the occult
- A friend at uni told me he liked to walk around the city at night and listen to music with his headphones on. He asked why I didn’t do that too.
- My partner feeds the local birds from the kitchen window, and this morning I heard him saying to them: ‘Yes, I suppose everyone is hungry and upset after the storm.’
- Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 45, largely due to societal pressures upon men to suppress their emotions. But, y'know, "man up".I'm not convinced by this new trend of male public soul-bearing. Time for our gender to get a grip, methinks. Life's tough- man up.
- A PhD is obviously a marathon and not a sprint, but why must I complete this marathon in flip-flops on a track made of lava
- How I think I look wearing a beret vs how I actually look wearing a beret
- 'I wonder why my back hurts', I think idly, whilst hunched over my laptop like a goblin
- Academics HATE her! Woman actually gets around to reading a PDF article she downloaded months ago
- I’m in a tiny bookshop in the Lake District. The shelves in the philosophy/self help section are labelled ‘deep things’, ‘deeper things’, ‘very deep things’, and ‘out of my depth’
- Every week I work a closing shift at Queen’s College library, and every week I get a variation on this view
