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Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
    It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
Clasp a rare & radiant maiden…”

Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
–Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven.
🖼Edmund Dulac

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2022-07-09



And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine.
–John Steinbeck, East of Eden.

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2022-07-09

'There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath...'
-Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

Dear bookworms, tomorrow's theme is American Literature. Use for a retweet. 📚🐛

🎨Martin Aagaard

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2022-07-08

‘“Will you walk a little faster?”
said a whiting to a snail.
“There’s a porpoise close behind us,
and he’s treading on my tail.’ Carroll’s The Mock Turtle’s Song. Illustration ~ John Tenniel

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2022-07-03

Letting go of logic was always half the fun of Wonderland: ❤️🫖

“For if one drinks much from a bottle marked ‘poison,’ it’s almost certain to disagree with one sooner or later.”
–Alice

“I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.” –Alice

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2022-07-03

“Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe -
Sailed on a river of crystal light,
Into a sea of dew...”

A C19th bedtime by Eugene Field. by Margaret Tarrant, for Verses for Children, 1918.

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2022-07-03

You never heard of a water-baby. That is the very reason why this story was written.
"But there are no such things as water-babies."
How do you know that? If Mr. Garth does not find a fox in Eversley Wood- that does not prove that there are no such things as foxes.

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2022-07-02

“Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing—turn out your toes as you walk—and remember who you are!”
― Lewis Carroll, Through The Looking Glass

🎨Mervyn Peake (1945)

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2022-07-02

'The wolf ran as fast as he could, taking the shortest path, and the little girl took a roundabout way, entertaining herself by gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and gathering bouquets of little flowers.'
-Charles Perrault

🎨Graham Franciose

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2022-07-02

"Jofuku put into Sentaro's hand a little crane made of paper, telling him to sit on it's back and it would carry him to the country of Perpetual Life. Sentaro obeyed wonderingly. The crane grew large enough for him to ride on it with comfort. It then spread...

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2022-07-02

'I'd been in a place where animals can talk and where there are - er - enchantments and dragons - and well, all the sorts of things you have in fairy-tales.' ... The Silver Chair.

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2022-07-02



Some people think that there are no fairies. But it is a wide world, and plenty of room in it for fairies, without people seeing them; unless, of course, they look in the right place.
–Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies.

🎨Warwick Goble.

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2022-07-02

“Their breath added mist to mist... Behind them, in the crawling fog, came a soft gentle sound. Something rustled, pushing towards them.”
- The Giant Under The Snow - John Gordon

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2022-07-02

"Merry, merry England has kissed the lips of June:
All the wings of fairyland were here beneath the moon,
Like a flight of rose-leaves fluttering in a mist
Of opal and ruby and pearl and amethyst."

- Alfred Noyes
🎨 Warwick Goble

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2022-06-26

“Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,
You moonshine revellers, and shades of night,
You orphan heirs of fixed destiny,
Attend your office and your quality.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V, Scene 5
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2022-06-25


“All this took place before summertime came in.
[…] Some, I think, [come] out of the water, and some out of the ground. […]
I certainly prefer the daylight population of the Playings Fields to that which comes there after dark.”

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2022-06-25



The stories in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser take the reader into a world of adventure-seeking knights, fairies, captive maidens, treacherous magicians, fire-breathing dragons, enchanted trees and other wonders. https://t.co/onrBvVnajS

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2022-06-25

‘O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.’ The Stolen Child, Yeats. 🖼 Rackham

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2022-06-25

'Oh, how near to Fairyland!
Blow, blow, gust of wind!
Sweep away my soul-boat against that very shore!'
-Yone Noguchi

is with you for the first half of a that is all about Fairies in Literature.

🎨Asako Eguchi

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2022-06-25

"Robert Kirk believed the fairies to be the doubles or, as he called them, the 'co-walkers' of men, which accompanied them through life, and thought that this co-walker returned to Faerie when the person died" ~ Lewis Spence




🎨 Arthur Rackham

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2022-06-25