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‘…I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.’
—Edgar Allan Poe

24 162
2023-01-22



‘Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”
            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”’ (Edgar Allan Poe)

🖼 Gustave Doré

21 73
2023-01-22

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

A Dream Within a Dream
📖

🎨 by Leo Colapietro

11 44
2023-01-21

We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

Edgar Allan Poe
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

11 47
2023-01-21

‘Wynter wakeneth al my care,
Nou this leves waxeth bare;
Ofte I sike ant mourne sare
When hit cometh in my thoht
Of this worldes joie, hou hit goth al to noht.’ ~ Anon.

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2023-01-14

upon Helvellyn
lichen-covered
boulders beckon
winter's snow

(4-line)


art: Fresh Snow on Helvellyn by Elijah Walton 1876

9 33
2023-01-14

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

🎨Lowell Birge Harrison

11 57
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

10 68
2023-01-11

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

🎨Alexandre Calame

21 98
2023-01-10

‘I wish I hadn't cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out.
I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!’
Lewis Carroll ~ Alice in Wonderland.
🖼️ Rackham

22 137
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

11 57
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