“There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe”

Castellan of Otranto and father of the Gothic novel Horace Walpole was born 1717

🎨 Susanna Duncombe (c1800)

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Suspicious wizard owl 🧙✨
Smartypants bookworm owl 📖👓
Big brawler baker owl 🥐💪
Fishy chef owl 🧑‍🍳🐟

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"Most people dream when they are asleep.
But to be a writer,
you have to dream while you are awake.”
– Haruki Murakami

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this is my first time knowing that there’s a Spider-Ham villain called Bookworm lmao

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Re-introducing my fruit bat character, Dennis! He’s a shy bookworm with bad posture. He read book, he munch fruit, the works.

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雑木の庭は見ていて飽きない
小さな木、大きな木
芽吹いたり色付いたり
栄えたり衰えたり
整えることはできても、支配なんてムリ
でもそこがいい

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"Reading Time"

Milo is a bookworm (he likes to wear glasses during this) and enjoys talking about it. Jack is there to listen to him talk. He enjoys hearing him speak.

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‘Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.’
Montaigne, The Complete Essays.
🖼️ Hebe, Carolus-Duran.

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‘There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near.’
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, The Haunted Baronet and Others: Ghost Stories 1861-70.

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It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.

'The Song of Wandering Aengus'


🖼️'Boreas',1903

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