The geometry of the nave is not just a matter of numbers and measurements; it is a form of knowledge that is acquired through bodily experience.
- John Skillen
Ely Cathedral’s sacred geometry.
The modern world uses math to create addictive social media algorithms. The old world used math to create works of timeless beauty.
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View from the Octagon Tower, Ely Cathedral, England (11th century) by David Murphy (Biggleswade)
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Back on tumblr like its 2008
Some things have happened in my life:
I've moved back to Cambridgeshire
The drama of the horrors of my doctoral thesis being unembargo'd got resolved, so I can write about it on the internet
It's four years since my doxx-aversary (the day I got doxxed by a bunch of mean Oxford grad students when I was just living my life climbing glacier in Iceland, which led to me fearing for my life because my doctoral thesis became publicly available, and it was on human rights law, so was embargo'd for good reasons -- oy, it is a long story. In fact it is a novel, about the evil of academics and haunted libraries and interrogations in embassies)
I'm reading some Philip Pullman
I'm planning to open a patisserie in 2024
It's 20 years since I left Cambridgeshire in the first place, as a little 18 year old proto-person, off to the evil other place that hurt me, and then everywhere else, and now I'm back
So. I thought this might be a good moment to make a place to write about the things going on in my life.
I do other things elsewhere, such as: lecture on law, write papers on space law, write fiction under a pseudonym, learn languages, try to be a good person etc etc. But this blog/ website is specifically for my time in Cambridgeshire, and my exploration of returning home.
My dear lovely friend from my sixth form years has been persuaded to make a podcast with me about all things Fenland and East Anglian. so if that actually materialises, I will post that here as well.
The most pressing question I have in my life at the moment is: what name should I give my patisserie? Two candidates are:
*Dottirons (a portmanteau of part of my surname and the word 'macarons')
*Pistachio Kisses
*Allansdottir's (naming a cafe after oneself feels mega pretentious, but my surname actually names me after my father so it is actually in his honour)
Cambridge I love you, it's good to be back
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First roll of film on my 6x9 folding camera
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