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“From this boy's head, whereon the apple lay,
Your new and better liberty shall spring;
The old is crumbling down—the times are changing
And from the ruins blooms a fairer life“ (Schiller)

William Tell shot the apple off his son’s head #OTD 1307 on the Altdorf market square

@loveandgrace11 @ameliabrowntale That's indeed a bitter loss.

“Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.” (Robert Louis Stevenson "Treasure Island")

🎨 J.M.W. Turner "Small Boats beside a Man-o’-War" (1796)

#BookWormSat

“You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman...
'You never can tell...' he answered.
'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly.
'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!” (Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita")

🎨 F. Eichenberger (1959)

#Dostoevsky200

“The adventures of Fra Diavolo have left a legendary reputation" (Victor Hugo)

Fra Diavolo, the devil's brother, legendary Italian robber chief turned guerrilla leader against Napoleon was brought to bay by Victor Hugo's father, of all the people.

#WyrdWednesday

@Kerria Difficult to find a favourite from Caravaggio, but here is one of mine.

@bjorn_stjerne

"And I told how I came from Ireland, which is of Europe, whereat the captain and all the sailors laughed, for they said, “There are no such places in all the land of dreams." (Lord Dunsany "Idle Days on the Yann")

🎨 Sidney Sime (1910)

#WyrdWednesday

"I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs" (Thoreau)

Two villages were drowned in the Red and the Black Bog of the Rhön Mountains for their sins. At night, one can see the village girls dance as will-o'-the-wisp on the moor

#SwampSunday #31DaysOfHalloween

"I saw pale kings, and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
Who cry'd—'La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!'" (Keats)

🖼️ Frank Dicksee "La Belle Dame sans Merci" (1901)

#FaustianFriday #31DaysOfHalloween