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"You alone will have the stars as no one else has them. In one of the stars I shall live. In one of them I shall laugh. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night, only you will have stars that can laugh."
El Principito

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2022-07-16

"The flesh is sad, alas! – and I’ve read all the books.
Let’s go! Far off. Let’s go! I sense
That the birds, intoxicated, fly
Deep into unknown spume and sky!" (Stéphane Mallarmé "Sea Breeze")

🎨 Tissot (c 1878)

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2022-07-16

An example of 19th century caricature art
Achille Lemot (1846-1909) — Gustave Flaubert Dissecting Madame Bovary (illustration from “The Parody'', 1869)

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2022-07-16

The Dream Walker
The silence of the street seemed to close in around him whilst his own thoughts were riddled with disquiet.
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2022-07-11

Remedy Teaser
One needed only to reveal themselves as a messenger from the Gods to invoke adoration and unquestioning loyalty.
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2022-07-11

The Bed-Time Book, by Helen Hay Whitney, 1907. by Jessie Willcox Smith, one of America’s most popular & prolific children’s

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- "From that chamber, and from that mansion, I fled aghast. The storm was still abroad in all its wrath as I found myself crossing the old causeway. Suddenly there shot along the path a wild light..."
- The Fall Of The House Of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

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2022-07-09

"The sun shines there no brighter than a star, but the beings need no light. They have other subtler senses and put no windows in their great houses and temples. Light even hurts and hampers and confuses them..."
~ The Whisperer In Darkness by H.P. Lovecraft

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2022-07-09

Far safer through an Abbey gallop,
The stones achase,
Than, moonless, one's own self encounter
In lonesome place.

– Emily Dickinson, “Ghosts”


🖼 John Constable

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2022-07-09



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

Remedy Teaser
One needed only to reveal themselves as a messenger from the Gods to invoke adoration and unquestioning loyalty.
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2022-07-07

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
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2022-07-07

‘“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

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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2022-07-02

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