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Poe’s Dupin was a first: a weird, detective genius: 🔍

“Let him talk,” said Dupin, who had not thought it necessary to reply. "Let him discourse; it will ease his conscience, I am satisfied with having defeated him in his own castle.”
-Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin

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2022-08-21

A friend posted this cartoon in her thread today.
I had a long, cathartic howl of laughter. I hope folk will, too.

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2022-08-21

- “To visit Yuggoth would drive any weak man mad - yet I am going there. The black rivers of pitch that flow under those mysterious Cyclopean bridges - things built by some elder race extinct and forgotten...”

~ The Whisperer in Darkness - H.P. Lovecraft

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2022-08-21

In Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, the narrator's friend known as Danforth completes his descent into insanity in Antarctica by repeatedly chanting the station names of Boston's Red Line.

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2022-08-21

“The most merciful thing in the world, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”



🎨 Carlos Villas

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2022-08-20

"In the tunnels of that twisted wood, whose low prodigious oaks twine groping boughs and shine dim with the phosphorescence of strange fungi, dwell the furtive and secretive zoogs" (Lovecraft)

🎨 V. Ermolaev "Zoogs" (2016)

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2022-08-20

Darklings!

Today's ends now. And while it's all things over here again, share lore of haunted mines and the crafting of cursed gems with Sam and celebrate dark, weird literature with

🖼️ J. Panuška https://t.co/RTY3Y6demH

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2022-08-20

All deep,earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea,while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.(Melville Moby Dick) I just had to! It's my all time favorite!

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2022-08-14

"The ocean has a life of its own. Its tides, whirlpools, currents and eddies are a testament to its conflicting emotions.”

~ Anthony T. Hincks,🎨Tim Jones

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2022-08-14

"Make no reply, but listen; I am not dead, nor yet am I alive. I hover between this world and the world of Spirits. Mark me."

(Frederick Marryat "The Phantom Ship")

🎨 Howard Pyle "Flying Dutchman"

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2022-08-14

"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy...The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural & wonderful existence. It is nothing but love & emotion; it is the Living Infinite."

-Jules Verne
🎨 Max Jensen

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2022-08-14

If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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2022-08-13

‘And now my spirit twists
out of my breast…
it soars widely
through all the corners of the world --
it comes back to me
eager and unsated;
the lone-flier screams,
urges onto the whale-road
the unresisting heart
across the waves of the sea.’ ~ The Seafarer.

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2022-08-13

‘I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.’ Nikos Kazantzakis, The Life and Times of Alexis Zorba.
🖼 Winslow Homer, c.1869.

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2022-08-13

“In an age of hard drinking Hornblower stood almost alone in his abstemiousness ...” ~ The Happy Return aka Beat to Quarters (1951), C.S. Forester.
[illustrations by Joe McLaren, for the Folio Society]

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2022-08-13

'I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave.'
-Mary Shelley

Dear Bookworms, tomorrow we're sailing on the seas with the theme Ocean Literature. Use for a retweet.

🎨Miquel Carbonell Selva

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2022-08-12

"...to read the mysteries
Of a love—so rumour said
By a magic philtre fed,
Which for ever in their veins
Burn’d with love’s consuming pains."

Tristan And Isolde: The Love Sin | Lady Jane Wilde


🖼️Night by Alexandra Khitrova / GaudiBuendia

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2022-08-06

“In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand. ”
📖Le Morte d'Arthur ~ Sir Thomas Malory



🎨an illustration for Ballads of Bravery (1877)

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2022-08-06

It was the closing of the day:
She loos'd the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shalott.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson


Art by Janet Chui

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2022-08-06

'But then the times grew to such evil that the holy cup was caught away to Heaven, and disappeared.'
-Lord Tennyson

🎨Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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2022-08-06