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"Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades." (Isak Dinesen)

🎨 Hofer

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2023-02-14

“To hatch a crow, a black rainbow
Bent in emptiness
over emptiness
But flying” (Ted Hughes)

🎨 Teagan White

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2023-01-29

“‘Why is a raven like a writing-desk?
‘Have you guessed the riddle yet?’ the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.”
—Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

🎨 Tenniel & Rackham

8 90
2023-01-28

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
—Lewis Carroll

🎨 John Tenniel

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2023-01-28

Happy Birthday to Lewis Carroll! Not his, un-birthday, mind you. 🎂😉So I’ll post a few scenes from Alice’s world today:

Alice: ‘How long is forever?’

White Rabbit: ‘Sometimes, just one second.’

🎨 John Tenniel

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2023-01-28

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.
"Who are you?"
~ Lewis Carroll

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2023-01-27

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."

― John Steinbeck.



🎨 winter scene, Paul Klee

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2023-01-26

"Those are the eyes of the dead, truly,
No loving hand has closed their void" (Goethe)

🎨 Fritz Roeber (1910)

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2023-01-21

Thank you to everyone who is accompanying and for a stroll through imaginary snow! We return tomorrow.

🎨Lowell Birge Harrison

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2023-01-12

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade.

~Italo Calvino

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2023-01-11

'He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.'
-Robert Frost

🎨Alexandre Calame

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2023-01-10

"Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth."
(John Ruskin)

🎨 Charles Livingston Bull

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2023-01-02


“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

~ “A Dream Within A Dream” ~
by Edgar Allan Poe [1809-49]

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2022-12-30

“On the dead walk, & on every tile of the house a soul is sitting, waiting for your prayers to take it out of purgatory.”

From Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland by Lady Jane Francesca Wilde, 1888

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2022-12-30

"We were immured in ice and should probably never escape" (Mary Shelley)

🎨 Bernie Wrightson

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2022-12-23

"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

"Ah, distinctly I remember
it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember
wrought its ghost upon the floor. "
~ Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Raven'

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2022-12-09

"Fast gliding along, a gloomy bark
Her sails are full, though the wind is still,
And there blows not a breath her sails to fill."
(Thomas Moore)

🎨 Ferdinand Leeke

16 53
2022-12-07

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"May and October, the best-smelling months? I'll make a case for December: evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon."

Lisa Kleypas


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2022-12-05

Then joining hands to little hands
Would bid them cling together,
“For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather…”

~ The Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti

🎨 Victoriasmoon


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2022-11-30