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Narcissus n goldmund is his true Master piece.

oh my word, you are speaking my language. I fell down the Benu rabbit hole and there is no turning back. I absolutely love every one of my Benu's

thanks for sharing

Beautiful pens! I have the same ones. Love them all.

You made me laugh when you imitated Nancy's unnatural speech.😂

I could look at your swatches all day! So many great colors! I think my favorite is Chilly Nights.

Congrats and happy birthday! Your new Benu pens are beautiful, and the inks are certainly matchy-matchy and just lovely. Happy Hannakuh and New Year!🎉

Your lighting looks great in this video! I love the purple vibe. Ursula, if you tag people properly then they will get a mention on their channel and it may alert them to your channel. I definitely tag people who I may not be super tight with. Having hosted an event twice now, I can tell you that even if the event is small it’s hard to get to everyone’s videos, especially if they don’t tag the hosts. 💛 Do you have a Ko-Fi page?

love that Tiger's eye Benu !!

Is this a replica ? Because my grandmother has a Betty Crocker cooking book and it look vintage nothing like this book !

I enjoyed your Diamine Inkvent series and look forward to your recap video.

Well, I sure guessed wrong. I thought 25 would be gold or red. Such a fun event!

Great job reviewing a novel about a horrific incident in our history

I've heard Star Bright is heavier than usual shimmer.

Beautiful pens and ink! Are your swatch cards Col-o-ring?

I liked seeing the spoiler videos this year. I didn't buy any of the inkvent calendars. If I had bought them, I just wouldn't have looked at the spoiler videos. I like your big ink swatches and writing samples.

Thanks for the thoughtful words. I'm a huge Hesse fan and can say I mostly agree with your reviews of his books. It's interesting to hear you found Glass Bead Game boring. I've never managed to get into it even though I've tried many times. I still hope to someday but unfortunately I agree it's kinda boring.

Lovely!

What a beautiful shade of blue!!! Love it!

Happy Birthday fellow Sagittarius 🥰🥰🥰

I like the way you swatch the ink. It's a good sized swatch.

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I don't mind the colour

There is a comprehensive biography on Yoko, I read part of it, it's wonderful, but it is out there..

Goldman was writing this book from an elitist perspective, he was an Ivy League educator, and it has a particular smugness to it, regardless, it's brilliant....

I see I have a dislike on this video without any accompanying comment. As a general PSA, if you genuinely disagree with anything in any of my videos, I invite you to leave a comment telling me what exactly you disliked, so long as you express yourself politely and respectfully. Let’s have a mature dialogue about our points of disagreement. If I don’t see any comments going along with dislikes, I’m going to assume you’re just being an immature, hit and run troll who hasn’t the courage of your convictions, or someone who just gets a thrill out of being mean for no reason. Sorry not sorry.

Congratulations! Both pens and inks are absolutely beautiful! 😊

I picked up an Opus 88 Harmony brown to match my Harmony Red / Grey Marble, Opus are one of my favourite brands. Also a few bottles of Noodler’s inks which are hard to get here in the UK. Thanks for sharing your haul with us. ATB Tim

Very pretty pens and ink! You are almost to 500 subscribers 🎉

what a wonderful haul I love the Narwhal and Opus 88 particularly

Very cool

Wilted rose is an intriguing colour for sure. Totally agree about the spoilers, and having to avoid a minefield of swatching videos since October! I want to surprise myself each day as I open the windows. I'd be really disappointed if I saw any of the colours before I got the chance to open them myself.

That looks amazing! I loved Diamine ink. Thanks for sharing!

I don't think there's a "proper" way to swatch, as long as your having fun :P I love day two, it might be my favourite ... though it is probably too early to declare haha

I use a seam ripper to both open ink boxes and get the shrink wrap off of the bottle necks

It worked for me ...I remembered reading this book back in the early 1970s thinking I would never want to go through any of the things she went though...If it works on some kids great

I have the original 976 pages

I have read this book very many times ❤

Omg, we all believed go ask alice growing up, and the one about Jay too. Shame on her!

Omg, I got that Opus 88 too. I got the stub nib because I never had the stub in Jowo. It's fantastic...much better than Broad nib. Rachelle in Seattle

Hey Sis, I have the Sweett Life Collection and blueberry muffin, pumpkin cake and iced cookie are my favorites. I have that same dip pen as well. I’m going to cut it in half so I can dip the point and write, and use the back as my swatch dip as I do now but the length will be gone. A glass cutter should do the trick. Thanks for sharing. I have a series of unboxing videos from my fountain day haul this year as well. Go check them out and subscribe. I’m building my channel as well.

I read "Go ask Alice" as a teenager and even back then it was extremely obvious to me that the whole dumb story was pure bull$hit. How this brazen fraud ever managed to fool a single adult is beyond me.

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Mark Musa is the translation I am currently reading....its pretty good!

I’ve always resonated with the sense of dejection and exile that pervades the Commedia. To quote Brunetto Latini’s advice to him in Mandelbaum’s translation: “Among the sour sorbs, the sweet fig is not meant to bear its fruit… Be sure to cleanse yourself of their foul ways.” He consoles himself, and the reader, with the words of his mentor, simultaneously bidding for literary eternity later in the canto. All together, it puts Ovid’s Metamorphoses into different perspective, as he wrote it before his own exile. And surely the commedia would not have been the gnarled and melancholy poem that it is, at least for me, if Dante had become Podesta of Florence. It makes me wish we had another epic poem from Ovid, one written in exile, and likewise with Dante. With his sense of humor, a pre-exile epic seems likely to bear more similarity to Ariosto and Apuleius, which would’ve been rollicking fun from Dante. Though I’m likely just projecting all this; you can see everything in Dante afterall.

I got my 1st Diamine Inkvent last year and found out I like to watch the ink reveal each day but not buy the calendar. I still have 12 bottles I didn't open from last year. Rachelle in Seattle

I do have my first inkvent calendar which i’m planning a series of videos for them in December. Thanks for sharing your new inks.

Historical Fiction is my favorite genre, congratulations on overcoming so many milestones!

I remember "Go ask Alice" from like fifty years ago. It seemed overly dramatic.