{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"690: Ch 12 \u2014 Cranford","description":"Ep. 690: Cranford | Chapter 12 Book talk begins at 15:55 Peter may be lost to the mists of time (or possibly crowned the llama of Tibet, if Miss Pole is to be believed) but it\u2019s Lady Glenmire who\u2019s dropped the real bombshell in this week\u2019s chapter. --------------------------------------------------------------- 0:00 Episode start 02.00 - This week\u2019s Tea - Bookshop Blend white https:\/\/bit.ly\/craftlit-pdtea \u2022 Erin has a free Book Tracker quilt pattern that you might be interested in. It\u2019s also an FPP (Foundation Paper Piecing) pattern and can be found here: https:\/\/www.snugglepuzzle.com\/book-tracker-quilt\/ \u2022 Don\u2019t forget to send us your crafty videos 03:55 - Foundation Paper Piecing patterns 04:30 - Benjamin Dryer of \u201cDryer\u2019s English\u201d & Andrew on AI this is what he wrote to me to introduce all these interactions: The reason I was remembering this book (that I can\u2019t quite remember) is that the idea of scale has been on my mind. It started with this story, and then this post that I wrote in response to it\u2014and then this post by Benjamin Dreyer, which I asked my Chat-GPT to respond to, which then led to THIS piece from America\u2019s Copy Editor, with both of us being a little dazzled and a little terrified by a \u201cmere\u201d predictive-text engine\u2019s ability to create a phrase like \u201cphrenology for prose.\u201d 07:30 - CraftLit is now on Audible\u2014please check and let us know if it worked! 08:20 - Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah 10:25 - Jameella Jamil\u2019s article 12:17 - Don\u2019t forget to send us your crafty videos like Steph!!! 13:00 - Listener Margaret had JUST read this book on the Porter Sisters when their books were mentioned on a Cranford episode! ZEITGEIST!!!! 13:46 - I just listened to the podcast Haptic and Hue: Tales of Textiles. the June 4 episode is on The Witches of Scotland: How a New Tartan Became a Living Memorial - and thought Craftlit people would be interested\u2014thank you JayKay 15:20 - And from Maia a BBC podcast on the same topic 15:30 - And another podcast from Lily M 15:55 START BOOK TALK 16:05 - A Moving Chess Pieces Chapter 17:49 - \u201cveiled prophet in Lalla Rookh\u201d by Thomas Moore (1799-1852), verse tales joined by prose text, first tale \u201cThe Veiled Prophet of Khorassan\u201d Edward Said\u2019s book Orientalism 19:00 - Rowland\u2019s Kalydor: a skin tonic with a basis of almond oil. 19:20 - Bonds are issued by governments or companies wishing to raise money. Foreign bonds in Cranford = risky (a kind of South Sea bubble). 22:56 - \u201cTibbie Fowler\u201d\u2014poem by Robert Burns (1756 to 1796) 24:30 - \u201cQueen of Spain\u2019s Legs\u201d\u2014just sayin\u2019 \ud83e\udd23 47:21 - Post Chapter Chat 51:10 - it\u2019s not The Kiss scene, it\u2019s \u201cThe Reunion Scene\u201d and you can find it here. 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