Welsh historian, author and travel writer, Jan Morris wrote, "Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic."
#JanMorris #India
#JanMorris #India
October 2, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Welsh historian, author and travel writer, Jan Morris wrote, "Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic."
#JanMorris #India
#JanMorris #India
Let's read the Bible together in the next year. Today, our passages are Isaiah 62:6–65:25; Philippians 2:19–3:4a; Psalm 73:1-28; and Proverbs 24:13-14. #BibleinaYear #BibleReadings #JanMorris #Isaiah #Philippians #Proverbs #Psalms #TheMessage
Bible Readings for October 2, 2026
Let's read the Bible togethe r in the next year. Today, our passages are Isaiah 62:6–65:25; Philippians 2:19–3:4a; Psalm 73:1-28; and Pr...
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October 2, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Let's read the Bible together in the next year. Today, our passages are Isaiah 62:6–65:25; Philippians 2:19–3:4a; Psalm 73:1-28; and Proverbs 24:13-14. #BibleinaYear #BibleReadings #JanMorris #Isaiah #Philippians #Proverbs #Psalms #TheMessage
🪷 #HappyBirthday: ‘I haven’t gone from one sex to the other. I’m both’... #JanMorris, renowned and beloved essayist, historian, journalist and traveler, author of scores of books, died on 20 Nov 2020. She was born 2 Oct 1926 as James. 🪷
October 2, 2026 at 1:15 PM
🪷 #HappyBirthday: ‘I haven’t gone from one sex to the other. I’m both’... #JanMorris, renowned and beloved essayist, historian, journalist and traveler, author of scores of books, died on 20 Nov 2020. She was born 2 Oct 1926 as James. 🪷
#JanMorris was a member of 1953 British #MountEverest expedition, that made the first ever confirmed ascent of #Everest, the only journalist to accompany the expedition, climbing with the team to a camp at 22,000 feet. She too was a trans woman who knew early on.
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October 1, 2026 at 2:35 PM
#JanMorris was a member of 1953 British #MountEverest expedition, that made the first ever confirmed ascent of #Everest, the only journalist to accompany the expedition, climbing with the team to a camp at 22,000 feet. She too was a trans woman who knew early on.
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May 22, 2026 at 7:24 AM
🪷 #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance ‘I haven’t gone from one sex to the other. I’m both’... #JanMorris, renowned and beloved essayist, historian, journalist and traveler, author of scores of books, died on 20 November 2020, #TransgenderDay. She was born 2 October 1926 as James. 🪷
November 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🪷 #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance ‘I haven’t gone from one sex to the other. I’m both’... #JanMorris, renowned and beloved essayist, historian, journalist and traveler, author of scores of books, died on 20 November 2020, #TransgenderDay. She was born 2 October 1926 as James. 🪷
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.
- Jan Morris
born on this day, 1926
#BookSky
#JanMorris
- Jan Morris
born on this day, 1926
#BookSky
#JanMorris
October 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.
- Jan Morris
born on this day, 1926
#BookSky
#JanMorris
- Jan Morris
born on this day, 1926
#BookSky
#JanMorris
Anglo-Welsh journalist, historian and trans activist Jan Morris was BOTD in 1926. Enjoying huge success as a journalist and writer she became one of the UK’s first public figures to undergo a gender transition, described in her memoir “Conundrum”. #janmorris #transhero #bornonthisday
Jan Morris
Anglo-Welsh journalist and historian Jan Morris was BOTD in 1926. Born James Morris in Clevedon, Somerset to a Welsh and English mother, she was raised and educated in Oxford. She studied at Oxford…
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October 2, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Anglo-Welsh journalist, historian and trans activist Jan Morris was BOTD in 1926. Enjoying huge success as a journalist and writer she became one of the UK’s first public figures to undergo a gender transition, described in her memoir “Conundrum”. #janmorris #transhero #bornonthisday
What an absolute joy to see Jan Morri's A Venetian Bestiary, re-issued by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social, chosen as one of @dauntbooks.bsky.social five favourite new books of the week.
May 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
There are people everywhere who form a Fourth World, or a diaspora of their own. They are the lordly ones! They come in all colours.
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
December 31, 2024 at 1:35 PM
There are people everywhere who form a Fourth World, or a diaspora of their own. They are the lordly ones! They come in all colours.
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
all it need say about itself is "Sua Triestinità." To my mind this is an existentialist sort of place, and its purpose is to be itself. #triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
December 31, 2024 at 1:34 PM
all it need say about itself is "Sua Triestinità." To my mind this is an existentialist sort of place, and its purpose is to be itself. #triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
Hundreds more follow the Joyce Trail, the Svevo Trail or the Rilke Path, armed with maps and pamphlets provided by the tourist authority, and pursuing in fact as in fiction the memories of the three writers
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
December 31, 2024 at 1:39 AM
Hundreds more follow the Joyce Trail, the Svevo Trail or the Rilke Path, armed with maps and pamphlets provided by the tourist authority, and pursuing in fact as in fiction the memories of the three writers
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
They are gone, all those great vessels, gone with the old greatness of Trieste itself. They had sad ends. The Viribus Unitis was meanly sunk that day at Pola-
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
December 30, 2024 at 2:26 PM
They are gone, all those great vessels, gone with the old greatness of Trieste itself. They had sad ends. The Viribus Unitis was meanly sunk that day at Pola-
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
In the deep waters of Trieste bay, not far off Miramare, on the bottom of the sea sands a life-size figure of San Giusto San Giusto del Mare. He is standing, I am told, four-square on the sea floor, bound
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
December 29, 2024 at 4:14 PM
In the deep waters of Trieste bay, not far off Miramare, on the bottom of the sea sands a life-size figure of San Giusto San Giusto del Mare. He is standing, I am told, four-square on the sea floor, bound
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
The underground river Timava that flows into the Adriatic out of the Karst is attended by many a myth and legend-"vast with a murmur of mountains," Virgil called it;
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
December 28, 2024 at 2:21 PM
The underground river Timava that flows into the Adriatic out of the Karst is attended by many a myth and legend-"vast with a murmur of mountains," Virgil called it;
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
How sad that her bonfire that night, which she saw as a beacon of truest dedication, should have been interpreted ever since as a conflagration of betrayal.
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
December 27, 2024 at 1:49 PM
How sad that her bonfire that night, which she saw as a beacon of truest dedication, should have been interpreted ever since as a conflagration of betrayal.
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
It used to be said that she burnt the manuscript not in a bedroom grate, but in a bonfire in the garden of their house, and this is the version I prefer.
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
December 27, 2024 at 1:47 PM
It used to be said that she burnt the manuscript not in a bedroom grate, but in a bonfire in the garden of their house, and this is the version I prefer.
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
In those days I thought of his ironically tolerant outlook as idiosyncratic cosmopolitanism, but now I would characterize it as Triesticity.
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
December 26, 2024 at 8:57 PM
In those days I thought of his ironically tolerant outlook as idiosyncratic cosmopolitanism, but now I would characterize it as Triesticity.
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
but to my my mind nationalism has come to mean no more than narrow and offensive chauvinism, based on baloney.
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
December 26, 2024 at 8:54 PM
but to my my mind nationalism has come to mean no more than narrow and offensive chauvinism, based on baloney.
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
MY COUNTRY right or wrong. How meaningless how it sounds nowadays, how preposterous! It is the slogan of blind nationalism. Patriotism, the love of one's people try, seems to me still a noble emotion
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
December 26, 2024 at 8:54 PM
MY COUNTRY right or wrong. How meaningless how it sounds nowadays, how preposterous! It is the slogan of blind nationalism. Patriotism, the love of one's people try, seems to me still a noble emotion
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
This was nationalism patriotism gone feral.
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
December 26, 2024 at 8:54 PM
This was nationalism patriotism gone feral.
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON
#triesteandthemeaningofnowhere #JanMorris #Morris24 #TandTMON