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There Came a Day ~ Ted Hughes.
There came a day that caught the summer
Wrung its neck
Plucked it
And ate it.
Now what shall I do with the trees?
The day said, the day said.
Strip them bare, strip them bare.
Let´s see what is really there. 1/4 #BookWormSat
From James Sowerby's Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms, published in three volumes between 1797 and 1809.
‘Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.’
Montaigne, The Complete Essays. #BookWormSat #SuperstitionSat
🖼️ Hebe, Carolus-Duran.
‘There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near.’
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, The Haunted Baronet and Others: Ghost Stories 1861-70. #BookWormSat #SuperstitionSat