Olivia Smith

Hello, I am a researcher of mixtures: early modern literature, big feelings, writing, the natural world, love— those sorts of things. I have a little substack to put my most casual mixtures on: ofsmith.substack.com

the odorous cedar chips of the wrecks danced round and round, like the grated nutmeg in a swiftly stirred bowl of punch

We saw this today. The bones of a deer caught perfectly in shape.

We saw this today. The bones of a deer caught perfectly in shape.

Ok, nice to glimpse everyone, I'm going back to my hermitage.

I walk past this house all the time, dusty and unattended, but very beautiful; set back from the road. It has recently been for sale. I love IM and also the quiet pace of these paintings and their magic energy all a secret for years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hell I'll take any excuse to share my favorite Gerard Manley Hopkins poem and one I have had memorized for 30 years and say to myself in bed when I'm awake at night.

British and European readers go here - www.orionbooks.co.uk/titles/phili...

The best is probably what I left out, which was his love of P.G. Wodehouse and him telling me off the record how he did little walks in LA and London to visit places Wodehouse had mentioned/visited. He was very insistent that our conversations about Wodehouse were not to be mentioned.

Does anyone nearby have spare 'eclipse glasses' I could have?

Birdie Hatcher www.findagrave.com/memorial/765...

Interesting new paper on cellular memory - link.springer.com/article/10.1...

90s techno is the most effective giant spreadsheet music

Tired lady with gsoh seeks funny thing to watch on tv… any suggestions?

Thinking of doing a completist Shakespeare film watch (as in, all the plays). What are your favourites?

Thinking of doing a completist Shakespeare film watch (as in, all the plays). What are your favourites?

Just read a commenter explaining that British children's top three fears in the early eighties were: rabies, quicksand and the Bermuda Triangle. This is TRUE.

I’ve got my jumper on and I’m so happy. Oh ye gods of the weather please never let me have to be so hot again. I pledge myself to a life of devotion to my hot water bottle.

I am upstairs in the house, closing and then quickly opening each door in turn like an amdram Nosferatu. That has been proven to work, right?

I love these transcripts sometimes

This was in my bag and none of the usual suspects put it there.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your paws for a hundred miles through the afterlife repenting. You only have to let the soft bear of your body love what it loves.

very sportsmanlike of England to wait until the entire nation of Croatia has arrived near the box before attempting to score

Max Sex United States, Census, 1930

What’s the best way to get rid off quite a lot of expensive academic books?