Steve Forrest

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Read teach eat run, bike write build. Traveller; always learning. Teaching (classical) Japanese at a public univ. in USA. Doing life and Japanese book history, etc. In diversity, strength; in equity, justice; in inclusion, an open welcome. LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍⚧️

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📜 Flax to Folio: The Global Diffusion of Early Paper and the History of Textiles 
Join us for the 2026 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography delivered by Professor Marina Rustow.
17 & 18 November 2026
5-6pm
In-person at Robinson College & online
🎟️ Book your free tickets: https://loom.ly/Du7jSUs

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【 #近刊 紹介📢】
川平敏文編『近世随筆とはなにか　文学・思想史・歴史』(bensei.jp/index.php?ma...)
鵺のごとき「#近世随筆」を把捉するために、文学・思想史・歴史など諸ジャンルの一線で活躍する研究者16名を糾合、「近世随筆」という沃野を耕していくための基盤を提示する意欲的成果。
#近世
#随筆

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"Opera doesn't make money. Opera’s what you spend money *on*.” “But . . what do you get out of it?” “You get opera. You put money in, you see, and opera comes out,” said Salzella wearily. --Terry Pratchett, 'Maskerade'

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Late afternoon, coming back from a long road run around local lanes--all intensely autumnal out there, with pumpkin harvesting and last haymaking going on, & roadsides littered with generous drifts of acorns and hickory nuts. Caught this #SkyPortrait as I was walking the final section.
#AmRunning

View of sky mostly covered in light patchy cloud, brightly underlit, the blue of the sky darkening, and in silhouette below a line of trees with a house gable visible at lower left.
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I know and admire the daylights out of a number of these writers, and others are ones I've been intending to read for years! (must get on that...), and still others sound super cool. ...plus, I am participating! Join us if you're free :-)

@sforrest.bsky.social

Truly! Takes me back a good few decades to other Lancia Beta models: family had two, one after the other -- Berlina first then an HPE. Much fun, but maybe less so to own?

1979 Lancia Beta Berlina.1982 Lancia Beta HPE.
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🏆The 2027 Fellowships application is now open and accepting submissions! BSA funds a number of fellowships annually to promote inquiry and research in books and other textual artifacts in both traditional and emerging formats. Application deadline is 1 December 2026.

🔗https://bit.ly/bsa-fellowships

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