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"Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
And Wilderness is Paradise enow"

Poet Edward FitzGerald, famous for translating the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, died #OTD 1883

🖼️ Edmund Dulac

“I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them”

Godfather of Wild Things Maurice Sendak was born #OTD 1928 in Brooklyn

"Gestumblindi said:
"Who are the twain
that on ten feet run?
three eyes they have,
but only one tail.
Alright guess now
this riddle, Heithrek!"
Heithrek said:
"Good is thy riddle, Gestumblindi,
and guessed it is:
that is Odin riding on Sleipnir"

🖼️ Rackham

#FairytaleTuesday

"The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths"

Aleksandr Pushkin was born #OTD 1799 in Moscow

"That night I couldn’t sleep. Toward sunrise I dreamed of an engraving in the style of Piranesi, one I’d never seen before or perhaps seen and forgotten—an engraving of a kind of labyrinth" (Jorge Luis Borges)

Piranesi's kafkaesque carceri d'invenzione for #Wyrdwednesday

“Who hath seen the Phantom Ship,
Her lordly rise and lowly dip" (A.P. Ryder)

The legendary Flying Dutchman, seen East of the Good Hope, with red sails flying or bathed in an eerie red light, a portent of doom for those whose bows she crosses.

🖼️ Howard Pyle

#Mythologymonday

@bjorn_stjerne And there's the "Neubauten" logo, of course...

@bjorn_stjerne Yay! It's Goat GIF time again!

@bjorn_stjerne Whatever floats your goat, right?

"We should like him to be less clever and more affecting - less wonderful and more terrible" (John Ruskin)

Large-scale marine drama master Clarkson Frederick Stanfield died #OTD 1867 aged 73 in London.

🖼️ "Mount St Michael, Cornwall" (1830)