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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"If I must die,
I will encounter darkness as a bride,
And hug it in mine arms." (Shakespeare)

🎨 Harry Clarke

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“I'll follow you, I'll lead you about a round,
Through bog, through bush, through brake, through brier:
Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a hound,
A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire…”
–William Shakespeare, MND A3S1

🎨Arthur Rackham

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Full fathom five thy father lies
Of his bones are coral made

Those are pearls that were his eyes
Nothing of him that doth fade

But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange

Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell


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"Her clothes spread wide;
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element:

Ophelia by Friedrich Heyser

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‘There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself,
‘Do trousers matter?’

‘The mood will pass, sir.’

The Code of the Woosters
P.G. Wodehouse 

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He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.
–Mark Twain, The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer.

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Have you ever received a book with missing pages?

Uh oh...

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🌟 'The best inspiration for little bookworms to get outside and make an autumn rainbow of their own' Jennie,

Fletcher and the Rainbow by and is now available in paperback. 🌈

Order your copy: https://t.co/bklfpa9xPs

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All is black shadow but the lucid line
Marked by the light surf on the level sand,
Or where afar the ship-lights faintly shine
Like wandering fairy fires, that oft on land
Misled the pilgrim …

Charlotte Smith (1749–1806)
art by Paul Delaroche

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“I am the vampire at my own veins.”

― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs Du Mal
🎨Georges Rochegrosse (colorized) & Carlo Farneti

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Death is inside the folding cots:
it spends its life sleeping on the slow mattresses,
in the black blankets, & suddenly breathes out:
it blows out a mournful sound that swells the sheets,
& the beds go sailing toward a port
where death is waiting.
–Pablo Neruda

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"They celebrate Death, you sing of Awakening; you go forth hymning the awakening of my soul, stars whose flame no sun can wither." ~ Charles Baudelaire.

[Art: Death of the Endless by Ricardo Drumond, DC Comics]

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Heyo Bookworms! I am Kryptos Nyanoma, Interdimensional Archivist and Gremolin Catboi. I don't often make appearances in this reality, the portals where you can find me are below!

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“When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now...”
-Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen


🎨The Snow Queen by Charles Robinson

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"Three coffins, in which lay three beautiful maidens, glided from the thickest part of the forest across the lake. The fire-flies flew lightly over them, like little floating torches." (Andersen "Snow Queen")

🎨 Maximilian Pirner (1888)

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Illustration of The Land of Counterpane (poem by Robert Louis Stevenson) by Jessie Willcox Smith

"I was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow-hill,
And sees before him, dale and plain,
The pleasant land of counterpane."

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"Light isn't always good neither shadows are always evil. Light often plays with human eyes and pranks shadows." ~ Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen.

[Art by Stanley "Artgerm" Lau]

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'But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.'

Dear bookworms, Saturday we're celebrating Hans Christian Andersen's birthday with the theme Fairytales.📚🐛

Use for a retweet! (9am - 10pm CET)

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Rose Lalonde - Patchouli Knowledge

- Purple
- Bookworms
- Magic

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