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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

PISSCHAT VILKCHAT PILKCHAT PRECHAT NOW HAS A TWITTER ACCOUNT REEEEEEEEEEE

Blessing our twitter account with our icon, Jar-kun, our sona!

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2023-01-09

"And I told how I came from Ireland, which is of Europe, whereat the captain and all the sailors laughed, for they said, There are no such places in all the land of dreams” (Lord Dunsany)

🎨Sidney Sime

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2023-01-07

"It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice."
(Wallace Stevens)

🎨 Eyvind Earle

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2023-01-06

📚📖Our Teatime Bookchat group are having their first monthly meeting of 2023 in Greenock Central Library on Monday 9th January at 5.30pm. Why not start the New Year with like minded people who love books. 📚📖

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2023-01-05

"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

“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

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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

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2022-12-07

‘That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from
anyone. You belong.’
—F. Scott Fitzgerald

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2022-12-06

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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

'The ones who living come today
To read the stones and go away
Tomorrow dead will come to stay.'
-Robert Frost

🎨James Christopher Hill

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2022-11-30

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”

~ Zelda Fitzgerald

🎨 Source: Daydreams and Moonbeams


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2022-11-29

'Black and monotonously sounding is the midnight and solitude of the rain.'
-Edward Thomas

🎨Catia Chien

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2022-11-29

"Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city." (Dickens)

🎨 Schindler (1886)

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2022-11-27

'But where in the world is the path for me
Except the river that runs to the sea!'
-Zoe Akins

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2022-11-27