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Weird films, peculiar children's stories, strange musicals, odd humour #libraries #writer he/him [email protected]
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Both philologists, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm not only published fairy tales, but also attempted to compile a German dictionary.

Both brothers died before they were able to finish the entry for the letter F. (For



🎨 Willy Pogany

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"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."

― John Steinbeck.



🎨 winter scene, Paul Klee

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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe'



🖋 Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

🎨 Sir John Tenniel

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Alfred Pomeroy Jones, sealawyer, born in Mumbles, sung like a linnet, crowned you with a flagon, tattoed with mermaids, thirst like a dredger, died of blisters.

Under Milk Wood
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🎨 W Heath Robinson

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"I understand what you are saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm going to ignore your advice"

Roald Dahl
The Fantastic Mr Fox



🎨 Quentin Blake (postage stamp)

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On this Thursday, on this particular walk to school, there was an old frog croaking in the stream behind the hedge as we went by.
'Can you hear him, Danny?'
'Yes,' I said

Danny, Champion of the World



🎨 Jill Bennett

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Illustration for Parsifal by
🎨 Willy Pogany

Percival was the original hero in the quest for the Grail but (according to wikipedia) replaced in later literature by Galahad. (Am not an Arthurian expert so was interested to discover this nugget of info)

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"Only those who dare may fly"

The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly

🖋 Luis Sepúlveda Chilean writer and Greenpeace activist



🎨 Edmund Dulac

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In the heat of summer

There's a refuge few know

Where the White Queen dwells

In her palace of snow




 🎨 Cecile Walton

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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable cites a watering hole as:

a pool where animals drink, or in human terms, a favourite pub or bar.

The latter looks more appealing today.



🎨Willy Pogany

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