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Fungi Collected in Shropshire and Other Neighbourhoods (1860–1902)
- donatj 4y agoBeautiful old illustrations but I find the authors writing style off putting and garden path at best. Almost every sentence is a run on, I struggle to find a single sentence in the entire thing lacking either a comma or hyphenated sub-thought. The sentences are impenetrably long and in dire need of a skilled editor. What follows is a single sentence. > Like many other women naturalists in the second half of the nineteenth century, Lewis appears to have collected and illustrated specimens for her own edification, combining her “polite” training in the arts with meticulous scientific observation against the backdrop of a growing embrace of natural history’s wonders. Beyond that, it’s own claims are unbacked. Over and over it cites the current zeitgeist being obsessed with Fungi but cites nothing, and nothing in my life experience backs that claim. Back it up with something, anything. > mushrooms have represented something queer, sexy, and dark for centuries Citation needed. I have never heard of mushrooms as sexy - back it up, > Behind recent calls for fungal futures — involving everything from “biohacked” bodies to anti-capitalist visions What? Reword, cite or omit > It’s unclear whether today’s obsession with fungi […] is another fleeting trend or a longer embrace of our primordial ancestors How am I meant to interpret this? Am I to interpret that final “of” as “akin to that of”? That’s the only way I can even make that thought make any kind of sense. The whole thing reads like some kind of fever dream.
- zasdffaa 4y agoI've no trouble with single sentences like that, at all. > I have never heard of mushrooms as sexy Never sexy but definitely sexual-organ-like - there's a lot of that (can't find examples ATM though), and noted for centuries. > How am I meat to interpret this? It's the kind of bullshit sentence that seems de rigueur at the end of popsci articles where you have to open it up in some way that vaguely relates to humanity. It's embarrassing, I agree.
- n4r9 4y ago> I have never heard of mushrooms as sexy This may not be a very convincing counterpoint, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallaceae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallaceae
- cormullion 4y agoYou might (or might not) enjoy the book "Mushrooms, Russia, and History"... https://archive.org/details/wasson-1957-mushrooms-russia-history/page/153/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/wasson-1957-mushrooms-russia-his...
- indymike 4y ago> The whole thing reads like some kind of fever dream. Or, perhaps inspired by shrooms.
- klyrs 4y ago> Citation needed. I have never heard of mushrooms as sexy - back it up, Be inquisitive, not dismissive: https://www.google.com/search?q=mushroom+aphrodesiac https://www.google.com/search?q=mushroom+aphrodesiac
- raydiatian 4y agoShropshire is still the best name to come out of England. Shropshire. So fun to say.
- hahamrfunnyguy 4y agoYesh it ish.
- zasdffaa 4y agoI dunno, try Cirencester - "siren-sester". Always slides off the tongue for me and sounds like something magical, perhaps like Circe (sur-see) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe
- n4r9 4y agoSure Shingay cum Wendy is a strong competitor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingay_cum_Wendy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingay_cum_Wendy
- klyrs 4y agoOne of the best cheeses, too
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoMushrooms, right? Fungi are the bodies underground; mushrooms are the fruiting bodies above-ground, if I remember right. So the illustrations could be entitled "Mushrooms of Shropshire..."
- adammarples 4y agoFungi are the whole thing. Mushrooms are a part of the fungi.