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- “Under the root of the Ash Yggdrasil that goes to the frost giants is the Well of Mimir.
Wisdom and Intelligence are hidden there, and Mimir is the name of the well's owner.”

~ Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda
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2022-08-14

Reading for me, is spending time with a friend.

—Gary Paulsen

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2022-08-14

“What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.”

Thomas Mann died 1955

🎨 Rembrandt "Dr Faustus in His Study" (1652)

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2022-08-12

- "I looked from that highest of all gable windows… I saw no city spread below, and no friendly lights gleaming from remembered streets, but only the blackness of space...
The Music of Erich Zann - H. P. Lovecraft

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2022-08-12

‘But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.’
—Toni Morrison
‘Beloved’

🎨 Joe Morse

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2022-08-12

'After the dark, and before the light,
One lay sleeping; and one sat weeping,
Who had watched and wept the weary night.'
-Christina Rossetti

🎨Kinuko Y. Craft

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2022-08-10

'It was easy enough
to bend them to my wish,
it was easy enough
to alter them with a touch,
but you
adrift on the great sea,
how shall I call you back?'
-Circe, H.D.

🎨Frederick Stuart Church

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2022-08-09

- 👻👻👻"It is absurd asking me to behave myself. I must rattle my chains, and groan through keyholes, and walk about at night if that is what you mean. It is my only reason for existing." the ghost says...

"The Canterville Ghost" - Oscar Wilde 📚😱😱😱

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2022-08-08

"The spirit thou lamentest is not gone;
Ye caverns and ye forests, cease to moan!" (Shelley)

🎨 San'Ok (2021)

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2022-08-04

I deck myself with silks and jewelry,
         I plume myself like any mated dove:
They praise my rustling show, and never see
         My heart is breaking for a little love.

L.E.L., Christina Rossetti



Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) 🎨 by Maclise

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2022-08-04

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”

~ H.G. Wells - New Worlds For Old
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2022-08-03


You have probably observed that your baby-sister wants to do all sorts of things that your mother want[s] her not to do. […] It simply means that she is doing as she has seen the fairies do; […] and it takes about two years to get her into human ways.

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2022-08-02

More fun MG sci-fi: MOLLY AND THE MACHINE by ; COG by ; LAST GAMER STANDING by ; SPACE CASE by

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2022-08-02

The Forest is dark, dearie, The Forest is dark;
The moment you think that you’re lost in the woods, then you are.

—Emory R. Frie, Wonderland
art by Tom Krieger

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2022-07-29

The cats of born 28 July 1866. Here we have Miss Moppet, Tom Kitten & his sisters, & wicked Simpkin from the Tailor of Gloucester.

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2022-07-28

“Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons.
Also freedom.”

~Charles Frazier, Nightwoods.🎨 Sheri Dinardi.

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2022-07-27

"Whirl up, sea—
whirl your pointed pines,
splash your great pines
on our rocks,
hurl your green over us,
cover us with your pools of fir.'
-Oread, H.D.

🎨Bartolomeo Giuliano

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2022-07-23

- “But Thor said nothing. He was thinking about the night before, and wrestling old age, of drinking the sea.

He was thinking about the Midgard serpent.”

~ Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

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2022-07-22

"My soul is full of longing for the secrets of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.”



~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 🎨Ken Knight.

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2022-07-21