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"Erect in his armor, a tall man carved from stone
Was standing at the helm and cutting the black flood;
But the hero unmoved, leaning on his rapier,
Kept gazing at the wake and deigned not look aside"

(Baudelaire "Don Juan in Hades")

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2023-01-08

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe'



🖋 Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

🎨 Sir John Tenniel

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2023-01-07

"All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask." (Melville)

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2023-01-07

‘sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; and often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing room door.’

JS Le Fanu, ‘Carmilla’

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2022-12-31

"Sitting under the mistletoe
(Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),
One last candle burning low,
All the sleepy dancers gone,
Just one candle burning on,
Shadows lurking everywhere:
Some one came, and kissed me there."

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2022-12-24

Salutations, dear Bibliophiles✨
Saturday is BookCat’s catnap day. You can find today’s hashtag fun with our pals at

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2022-12-17

"When the strain of music sounded, all the things that Ghost had shown him, came upon his mind; he softened more and more; and thought that if he could have listened to it often, years ago, he might have cultivated the kindness of life..." - (Charles Dickens)

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2022-12-11

'And the night shall be filled with music'
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

welcomes you to Today's theme is Music in Literature. 📚🐛

🎨Valera Lutfullina

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2022-12-10

"High in the halls of the kings who are gone,
Jenny would dance with her ghosts..."

- Jenny of Oldstones and Duncan Targaryen, Prince of Dragonflies as mentioned in A Storm of Swords by G.R.R.Martin
🖼️ Jessi Ochse

5 25
2022-12-10

“Look at the moon! How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. You would fancy she was looking for dead things.”
― Oscar Wilde, Salomé
🎨Aubrey Beardsley

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2022-11-27

'For the winds that awakened the stars are blowing through my blood.'
-W. B. Yeats

🎨Constantin Nepo

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2022-11-26

Salutations, dear Bibliophiles✨
Saturday is BookCat’s catnap day. You can find today’s fabulous hashtag fun with our pals at and

(art bySei Koyanagui)

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2022-11-26

"These Tuatha were great necromancers, skilled in all magic, and excellent in all the arts as builders, poets, and musicians."
(Lady Jane Wilde "Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland)

🎨 Stephen Reid

with a bow to

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2022-11-26

'Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.'
-Bram Stoker

welcomes you to

🎨Abbott Handerson Thayer

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2022-11-26

'Then the sudden rush
Of the rain, and the riot
Of the shrieking, tearing gale
Breaks loose in the night'
-Henry Van Dyke

🎨ZsaZsa Bellagio

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2022-11-20

‘Her own storm was always the most terrible.’ Tove Jansson ~ Tales from Moominvalley.

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2022-11-19

"The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows." (Schiller)

🎨 Aivazovsky

24 131
2022-11-19

"People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not."
–J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye

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2022-11-12

‘Not hear it?—yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long—long—long—many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it—yet I dared not….I dared not—I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!’ 😱
—Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher

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2022-10-30

“God! Whose hand was I holding?” (Shirley Jackson)

🎨 Ben Stahl

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2022-10-29