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Aug 20 2026
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Three muses

Thursday 20th August 2026, 4.30pm (day 5,474)

Weston Library muses, 20/8/26

There are nine Muses, at least according to most classical mythology. Sculpted representations of three of them currently occupy the lobby of the Weston Library, while the building across the road has some cosmetic surgery undertaken. I’d like to think I have engaged with eight of them at some point in my life although I must have done something in my karma to upset Terpsichore as she and I have never really got together.

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Aug 18 2026
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“New” College, Oxford

Monday 17th August 2026, 11.30am (day 5,471)

New College, 17/8/26

You may or may not have gone to university but if you did, and lived in a hall of residence, unless you did in fact go to Oxford or Cambridge I will bet it did not look like New College, or indeed any one of the other medieval halls that lie around this great seat of learning. Statues, cloisters, that kind of thing. It says a lot that this can be called “New” when it was founded in 1387.

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