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"These, or something like these, were Ivan Ilyitch's reflections, (a man says all sorts of things sometimes to himself, gentlemen, especially when he is in rather an eccentric condition)." #DostoevskySaturday https://t.co/rkQ5mxZlPI
A powerful witch - the Lady of the Green Kirtle, is the villain of CS Lewis' The Silver Chair. A beautiful, seductive, serpent woman. She is associated with the colour green, and also silver - colours of fairy. #WyrdWednesday #WitchyWednesday #Narnia
"For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls." Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno. #Poetry #MondayThoughts
"Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect." C.S. Lewis #MythologyMonday #Narnia.
'Under a juniper-tree the bones sang, scattered and shining
We are glad to be scattered, we did little good to each
other ...' T.S. Eliot. #Poetry #FaustianFriday https://t.co/UnelJVsdkk
'The White Rabbit is the first Wonderland character Alice encounters... ' #AliceinWonderland #WyrdWednesday https://t.co/Dp4oW5LXyV
Fortuna, the #Roman goddess of luck and change, had several iconographic features repeated in the Tarot trump, The Wheel of Fortune. [Fortuna, engraving by Hans Sebald Beham, 1541.] #MythologyMonday https://t.co/UF4P4tbRGM
'The Legend of Dama De Noche - Night Blooming Jasmine.' #MythologyMonday https://t.co/wMHTlyyKpF
"In 1653, fourteen-year-old King Louis XIV of France took part in the Ballet Royal de la nuit, ... A twenty-one-year old Italian musician and dancer, Jean-Baptiste Lully (Giovanni Battista Lulli) danced with Louis in the ballet." #StuartsSaturday https://t.co/MdHzHBSYMR
By the Pricking of my Thumbs is one of Agatha Christie's later works. It has an eerie plot, with themes such as memory, enigmatic artworks and missing children. There is also an old ruined doll which falls out of a chimney and provides a clue. #FolkloreThursday