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"You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, & so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened."

Jorge Luis Borges

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“I...confirm the fact - with a certain bittersweet melancholy - that everything in the world brings me back to a quotation or a book.”
Jorge Luis Borges, Atlas
🖼 by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

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Soft hair, hair that is all the softness of the world:
without you lying in my lap, what silk would I enjoy?

sweet the ancient sadness, at least for the few hours it slips between my hands.
—Gabriela Mistral, Children’s Hair

🎨 Marie Fischerova Kvechova

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"Only those who dare may fly"

The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly

🖋 Luis Sepúlveda Chilean writer and Greenpeace activist



🎨 Edmund Dulac

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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

—Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits
art by Justyna Dura

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The Dream Walker
The silence of the street seemed to close in around him whilst his own thoughts were riddled with disquiet.
link: https://t.co/Jzj9fVSBu2
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Remedy Teaser
One needed only to reveal themselves as a messenger from the Gods to invoke adoration and unquestioning loyalty.
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Supporting local bookshops. Young Bookworms Bookstore proudly carries Scoochie's Adoption Story. Visit them online or the next time you're in Colorado Springs, CO.

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‘Grey and furtive in the final twilight,
he lopes by, leaving his spoor along the bank
of this nameless river that has quenched the thirst
of his throat, these waters that repeat no stars.’ A Wolf, Borges. 🐺

Join us on for a day of South American literature.

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Remedy Teaser
One needed only to reveal themselves as a messenger from the Gods to invoke adoration and unquestioning loyalty.
https://t.co/kTnNX1eOCD
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The Dream Walker
The silence of the street seemed to close in around him whilst his own thoughts were riddled with disquiet.
link: https://t.co/Jzj9fVS3Eu
amreading fantasy ILikeBigBooks epicfantasy mustread swordandsorcery

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"Go not to the Nixie’s pool!
In those waters dim and cool
Gleams a pale and lovely face
Framed in hair like green fern-lace,
Arms of more than mortal grace
Smooth as lily, and as cool."

Leah Bodine Drake, Weird Tales May 1946

🎨 Arthur Rackham, The Rhinemaidens

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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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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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- “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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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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