690: Ch 12 — Cranford

Ep. 690: Cranford | Chapter 12

Book talk begins at 15:55

Peter may be lost to the mists of time (or possibly crowned the llama of Tibet, if Miss Pole is to be believed) but it’s Lady Glenmire who’s dropped the real bombshell in this week’s chapter.

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03:55 - Foundation Paper Piecing patterns

04:30 - Benjamin Dryer of “Dryer’s English” & Andrew on AI this is what he wrote to me to introduce all these interactions:

• The reason I was remembering this book (that I can’t quite remember) is that the idea of scale has been on my mind. It started with this story, and then this post that I wrote in response to it—and then this post by Benjamin Dreyer, which I asked my Chat-GPT to respond to, which then led to THIS piece from America’s Copy Editor, with both of us being a little dazzled and a little terrified by a “mere” predictive-text engine’s ability to create a phrase like “phrenology for prose.”

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08:20 - Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah

10:25 - Jameella Jamil’s article

12:17 - Don’t forget to send us your crafty videos like Steph!!!

13:00 - Listener Margaret had JUST read this book on the Porter Sisters when their books were mentioned on a Cranford episode! ZEITGEIST!!!!

13:46 - I just listened to the podcast Haptic and Hue: Tales of Textiles. the June 4 episode is on The Witches of Scotland: How a New Tartan Became a Living Memorial - and thought Craftlit people would be interested—thank you JayKay

15:20 - And from Maia a BBC podcast on the same topic

15:30 - And another podcast from Lily M

15:55 START BOOK TALK

16:05 - A Moving Chess Pieces Chapter

17:49 - “veiled prophet in Lalla Rookh” by Thomas Moore (1799-1852), verse tales joined by prose text, first tale “The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan” Edward Said’s book Orientalism

19:00 - Rowland’s Kalydor: a skin tonic with a basis of almond oil.

19:20 - Bonds are issued by governments or companies wishing to raise money. Foreign bonds in Cranford = risky (a kind of South Sea bubble).

22:56 - “Tibbie Fowler”—poem by Robert Burns (1756 to 1796)

24:30 - “Queen of Spain’s Legs”—just sayin’ 🤣

47:21 - Post Chapter Chat

51:10 - it’s not The Kiss scene, it’s “The Reunion Scene” and you can find it here.

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