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"The stalk is withered dry my love
So will our hearts decay
So make yourself
Content my love
Till death calls you away" (The Unquiet Grave)

... whispers the dead maiden, slightly annoyed, to her officious lover mourning on her grave in the 15th century ballad

#FaustianFriday

“Happier are all men than the beings of faerie... Better a life like a falling star, brief and bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.” (Poul Anderson, #BOTD 1926)

🎨 Charles Robinson (1912)

“It happened that in the midst of the dissipations attendant upon a London winter, there appeared at the various parties of the leaders of the ton a nobleman, more remarkable for his singularities, than his rank.” (John Poldiroi "The Vampyre")

#BookWormSat

🎨 Max Ernst

@lit_saturday Not Richard III, though...

@bthomasa @MaeneSigne There's indeed a Good Reptile Fairy out there for everyone... you just have to believe in them so they can believe in you!

“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

"West Wind! West Wind! Canst thou tell me the way to Soria Moria Castle? Here is one who would go thither." (Andrew Lang)

In search of lost brides, bliss and enchanted places...

🎨 Kittelsen "Far, far away Soria Moria Palace shimmered like Gold" (1900)

#FaustianFriday

“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