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Tom Powell

@tompowell.bsky.social
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Former philosophy professor and attorney, nascent historian and writer on Tudor intellectual history. Chapel Hill, Oxford, Charlottesville, God only knows where next. Would very much like to live in a P. G. Wodehouse novel if that can be arranged.

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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This photo, from President Carter’s funeral, says it all.
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Edith Nesbit.
Photograph of novelist Edith Nesbit
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
The first lilies just bloomed, joining the lupine in wishing all a very fine May morning!
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
Helping change the sheets ….
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
The garrison sleeps in the citadel With the ghosts and the ancient stones High on the parapet A Scottish piper stands alone And high on the wind The highland drums begin to roll And something from the past just comes And stares into my soul
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
Fun question! I think I will be okay …. 🙂
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
Io Saturnalia!
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Obsessive? Me?
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
Reading Wodehouse’s school stories. An absolute hoot, not least for the chance to see him trying out various tropes and turns of phrase that would become memorable in the Blandings and Jeeves & Wooster tales. #TalesofStAustins
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
In 2020, just before the pandemic, I was lucky enough to attend a performance of Le Nozze di Figaro in Prague’s Estates Theatre, where Mozart premiered Don Giovanni in 1787. The sound was spectacular, as it was for Mozart, and as is Prague itself. It is hardly a wonder that Mozart loved the city.
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
The one thing I learned in the other place ….
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Reskeet how people would know if you suddenly became rich
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Digging? Why, whatever could you mean?
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Someone has been helping plant the Nandina ….
Someone has been helping plant the Nandina ….
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
You can’t see me.
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 16/07/2023
Spoiled? Why, whatever could you mean?
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 08/07/2023
Skathi sends her compliments to Loki and says that she has now absolutely had it with Virginia summer humidity.
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 01/07/2023
Happy Saturday from Skathi, Queen Malamute.
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 24/06/2023
Saturday strategy until further notice ….
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 24/06/2023
The four varieties of cherry tomatoes I planted seems kind of reasonable. But eleven varieties of hot pepper may call for an intervention ….
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Tom Powell @tompowell.bsky.social · 24/06/2023
The lilies are coming along nicely with all this wonderful rain.
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