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"Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy." - Albert Einstein
Happy Tartan Day to everyone, even you, Albert.
#TartanDay #Tartan #Scotland #DeclarationOfArbroath #AlbertEinstein
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“As a patterned textile, [tartan] features straight lines, right angles, bright colours, and no ambiguity; as a symbol, its lines become fuzzy, its angles circular, its colours muddied, and its meaning polysemic.”
—Ellen R. Beard, “When Tartan Was Not Fake: The Disclothing Act in Gaelic Song”
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2022/06/when-tartan-was-not-fake-the-disclothing-act-in-gaelic-song/
#Scottish #literature #culture #history #18thcentury #tartan #TartanDay #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #song #Jacobites