GM! Greetings, fellow bookworms! Time to lose ourselves in some fascinating stories.

Once upon a time....

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This week’s Bookworm Saturday explores the world of fools:

‘When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.’
—William Shakespeare
King Lear

🎨 Frederick Bensell

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Every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

A Christmas Carol

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Pocket, Queen Cordelia’s trusted fool, is lured into a trap by a merchant, Antonio, by senator Brabantio and by Iago, a naval officer. In a dark dungeon he is offered a rare Amontillado and we all know how that usually goes.
Christopher Moore, “The Serpent of Venice”

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🌺🤍🌺"From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April, dress’d in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing."

📖Shakespeare - Sonnet 98

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Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

~Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

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"This I do vow, and this shall ever be:
I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee." (Shakespeare)

🎨 Charles Robinson

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i pretty much always have playing in the background so here’s some bookworms

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‘Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them – that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still.'

- Anne -"Anne of Green Gables"

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Salutations, dear Bibliophiles✨

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One autumnal evening, when the winds lay still in heaven, Morella called me to her bedside. There was a dim mist over all the earth ... and amid the rich October leaves of the forest, a rainbow from the firmament had surely fallen.
~ Poe

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One of two drawings for a Savage's gondola, in the shape of a sea monster with gremlins on the front and back; undated, possibly late 19th century.

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LAUGHING, lucky Four-Leafed Clover
Is a most atrocious rover;
Doesn’t stay long in one place,
Goes and never leaves a trace.

Marion T. Ross (1881-1937)

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day🍀

Sharing some leprechaun images from my beloved and worn copy of FAERIES by Brian Froud and Alan Lee that I’ve had since I was 12.

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The nursery rhyme, Mary Had a Little Lamb was a true story. In 1815, nine-year-old Mary Sawyer had a little lamb that followed her to the one-room schoolhouse, Redstone.

Fellow student, John Roulstone, wrote the famous poem about the event for Mary.

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When Celtic Finn Mccool sailed with his men their ship reached a mysterious island that was as beautitul as dangerous.

Birds were singing and in the dark forest was a well with a curiously wrought drinking-horn.

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'Out with you upon the wild waves, children of the king!
Henceforth your cries shall be with the flocks of birds.'
-Joseph Jacobs, The Fate of the Children of Lir.

🎨P.J. Lynch

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