This week, the fourth in several scribblings about my research: borrowing from Oscar Wilde, the importance of being earnest with one’s sources.

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Sources:

• Ologies Podcast: https://www.alieward.com/ologies
• "Metropolis," Wednesday Blog 3.20: https://wednesdayblog.org/2023/01/11/metropolis/.
• Marie V. Alessandro, "The Workers of Metropolis" in Cinema at UMass Boston, (6 November 2020), https://blogs.umb.edu/cinemastudies/2020/11/06/workers-of-metropolis/
• Surekha Davies, “Here be black holes: Like sea monsters on premodern maps, deep-space images are science’s fanciful means to chart the edges of the known world,” Aeon (13 July 2020), https://aeon.co/essays/how-black-holes-are-like-sea-monsters-at-the-edge-of-our-vision.
• Chicago Manual of Style, 18th Ed., Notes-Bibliography System Quick Guide, https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html.
• Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, trans. S.G.C. Middlemore, (London, 1878): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2074.

This week, the third in several scribblings about my research: how studying Thevet and his world fulfills a need to find purpose in life.

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This week, the second in several scribblings about my research: why I chose to study André Thevet and build my career on the mound of his works.

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This week, the first in several scribblings about my research: how I connect historic places in my sources with their modern names.

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This week, I spoke with a friend who converted to Catholicism as an adult about her conversion and how she relates to the Catholic Church as a whole.

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This week, I reflect on the role of love in balancing between self-praise and community in a discussion of vanity.

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This week, some comments about my trip to Boston last month and reflections on that resilient city.

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This week, in memory of His Holiness Pope Francis and of the revolutionary anniversaries in America and Ireland this week, some words on the humility necessary for the best sorts of leaders.

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