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[?]BookShelves eBook Reader » 🌐
@getbookshelves@mastodon.social

📅 This Day in Literature — June 16

This day in literature: Bloomsday (1904)

The day Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses.

lk0.eu/bks170m

    [?]North Sea Armed Forces Lodge » 🌐
    @North_Sea_829@norden.social

    Asked how a man may find suitable candidates for Freemasonry if it should not be advertised, Harold Voorhis of the Mystic Brotherhood Lodge in New Jersey wrote:

    "By conducting ourselves in such a manner as to make other men, especially young men, want to join us in our work. We must take the teachings of the Craft into our daily lives and set an example for the uninitiated "

      [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
      @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

      The Things We Keep by Sally Hepworth

      For everyone touched by dementia, especially for Pat Hanrahan, who will never be forgotten

      Alt...For everyone touched by dementia, especially for Pat Hanrahan, who will never be forgotten

        [?]Izaskun Gracia Quintana » 🌐
        @IzaskunGraciaQuintana@mastodon.world

        Esto es una delicia 🖤

        Fotografía en color del libro «El gato filósofo»

        Alt...Fotografía en color del libro «El gato filósofo»

          [?]Isaac Asimov » 🤖 🌐
          @CuratedAsimov@mastodon.social

          "It is my own experience ... that commentators are far more ingenious at finding meaning than authors are at inserting it."

            [?]quadrivial, mostly water » 🌐
            @quadrivial@beige.party

            Just finished "Jerusalem" by Alan Moore. He's enough of a magician to make me think there's something to be said for the idea of time being solid, as it were.

            Also, what Hell is and what eternity is. He'd hate this reference, I am sure, but I can't help thinking of C.S. Lewis's "The Great Divorce". Hell is in some way what we make it. Also, living one's life in such a way that you won't have moments you'd be ashamed to be stuck in for eternity seems a good way to go.

            This is rambling and incoherent but I can only plead "guilty, your Honor, and may I have another cup of coffee".

            Have a good day, all.

              [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
              @scotlit@mastodon.scot

              “not only is there no invocation of the free market […] Smith does not believe in a capitalist marketplace wholly free from restriction or regulation”

              —Adam Smith (1723–1790) was baptised , 16 June (NS). Evan Gottlieb examines Smith’s “Invisible Hand”. Evan Gottlieb examines Smith’s “Invisible Hand”

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              thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/in

                [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                “All writers have ideas for books they will never write. Mine is ADAM SMITH’S GUIDE TO PARENTING, an attempt to de-throne mummy & re-anoint society as the prime mover in child development”

                —As we confront how time spent in digital spaces impacts socialisation & child development, Allyson Stack looks at Adam Smith’s THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS for inspiration

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                imaginedspaces.org/new-writing

                  [?]Assoc for Scottish Literature » 🌐
                  @scotlit@mastodon.scot

                  “It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the publick expence, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion”

                  —Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations, vol. III (1776)

                  Adam Smith ſays tax the rich

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                  The necessaries of life occasion the great expence of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expence of the rich; and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. A tax upon house-rents, therefore, would in general fall heaviest upon the rich; and in this fort of inequality there would not, perhaps, be any thing very unreasonable. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the publick expence, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

                  Alt...The necessaries of life occasion the great expence of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expence of the rich; and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. A tax upon house-rents, therefore, would in general fall heaviest upon the rich; and in this fort of inequality there would not, perhaps, be any thing very unreasonable. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the publick expence, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

                    [?]Dead Poets Daily » 🌐
                    @deadpoetsdaily@mastodon.social

                    ‘The Night is Darkening Round Me’ by Emily Brontë

                    deadpoetsdaily.com/p/emily-bro

                      [?]C.G. Alcocer » 🌐
                      @cgalcocer@mastodon.social

                      Cuando el cielo pierde azul y el maizal se tiñe de rojo, las viejas canciones cobran un significado distinto.

                      "La canción del maizal" es un relato breve de terror rural inspirado en las leyendas que sobreviven entre los campos y la memoria de quienes las escucharon de niños.

                      cgalcocer.com/la-cancion-del-m

                        [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
                        @TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us

                        HANGMAN'S WAGES. Thirteen pence halfpenny, according to the vulgar tradition, was thus allotted: one shilling for the executioner, and three halfpence for the rope. This refers to former times; the hangmen of the present day having, like other artificers, raised their prices.

                        A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                        --
                        @histodons

                        Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): HANGMAN'S WAGES. Thirteen pence halfpenny, according to the vulgar tradition, was thus allotted: one shilling for the executioner, and three halfpence for the rope. This refers to former times; the hangmen of the present day having, like other artificers, raised their prices. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                        Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): HANGMAN'S WAGES. Thirteen pence halfpenny, according to the vulgar tradition, was thus allotted: one shilling for the executioner, and three halfpence for the rope. This refers to former times; the hangmen of the present day having, like other artificers, raised their prices. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                          [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                          @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                          Drag: Combing Through the Big Wigs of Show Business by Frank DeCaro

                          To Mimi, my first drag queen. May she always be Where the Boys Are...

                          Alt...To Mimi, my first drag queen. May she always be Where the Boys Are...

                            [?]BookShelves eBook Reader » 🌐
                            @getbookshelves@mastodon.social

                            📖 Bloomsday Read: Dubliners by James Joyce

                            Fifteen short stories capturing life in early 20th-century Dublin — intimate, sharp, and beautifully observed. From childhood to maturity, Joyce reveals the quiet epiphanies of ordinary lives. The perfect entry point to one of literature's greatest writers.

                            Read for free in BookShelves:
                            lk0.eu/bks18m

                              Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 boosted

                              [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
                              @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

                              "When a young man came up to him in Zurich and said, 'May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?' Joyce replied, somewhat like King Lear, 'No, it did lots of other things too.'"

                              Let's celebrate, today is Bloomsday!

                              Read the whole article in our June newsletter:
                              gutenberg.org/newsletter/

                              Ulysses by James Joyce at PG:
                              gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300

                              First edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, published by Paris-Shakespeare, 1922. The colour of the cover was meant to match the blue of the Greek flag. Plain Aegean-blue cover with white serif lettering: "ULYSSES / by / JAMES JOYCE" — the iconic first edition cover (Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)#/media/File:JoyceUlysses2.jpg

                              Alt...First edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, published by Paris-Shakespeare, 1922. The colour of the cover was meant to match the blue of the Greek flag. Plain Aegean-blue cover with white serif lettering: "ULYSSES / by / JAMES JOYCE" — the iconic first edition cover (Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)#/media/File:JoyceUlysses2.jpg

                                [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
                                @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

                                Undiscovered Country: The 100th Anniversary of Virgina Woolf’s “On Being Ill”

                                Darcey Steinke on Chronic Pain, Loneliness, and the Truth of Woolf’s Work

                                lithub.com/undiscovered-countr

                                Books by Virginia Woolf:
                                gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89

                                Photograph of Virginia Woolf with hand on face wearing a fur stole (10 x 15 centimeters). Sepia studio portrait of a slender-faced Virginia Woolf, cheek resting on her hand, wearing a fur stole, gazing directly at the camera with large, intense eyes.Sepia studio portrait of a slender-faced woman, cheek resting on her hand, wearing a fur stole, gazing directly at the camera with large, intense eyes. Hair swept back, small ring visible on her finger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:Virginia_Woolf_1927.jpg

                                Alt...Photograph of Virginia Woolf with hand on face wearing a fur stole (10 x 15 centimeters). Sepia studio portrait of a slender-faced Virginia Woolf, cheek resting on her hand, wearing a fur stole, gazing directly at the camera with large, intense eyes.Sepia studio portrait of a slender-faced woman, cheek resting on her hand, wearing a fur stole, gazing directly at the camera with large, intense eyes. Hair swept back, small ring visible on her finger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:Virginia_Woolf_1927.jpg

                                  [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                  @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                  A Bedouin Boyhood by Isaak Diqs

                                  To all of my people driven from their land

                                  Alt...To all of my people driven from their land

                                    [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                                    @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                                    Morirás. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

                                    [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                                    @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                                    Shoot It. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

                                    [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                                    @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                                    Lánzala. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz.

                                    [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                                    @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                                    Give Me Strenght. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

                                    [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                                    @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                                    Dame fuerzas. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz. 5

                                    [?]Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga » 🌐
                                    @siradramelekallighieri@mastodon.social

                                    You Will Die. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice.

                                    [?]Isaac Asimov » 🤖 🌐
                                    @CuratedAsimov@mastodon.social

                                    "I believe that every human being with a physically normal brain can learn a great deal and can be surprisingly intellectual. I believe that what we badly need is social approval of learning and social rewards for learning.We can all be members of the intellectual elite and then, and only then, will a phrase like "America's right to know" and, indeed, any true concept of democracy, have any meaning."

                                      [?]OhSnap!Dragon » 🌐
                                      @DrOinOR@mastodon.social

                                      @KanaMauna

                                      I was a kid that liked reading.
                                      (Imagine that.)
                                      I loved those Scholastic catalogs, where I could order Dynamite magazine, Encyclopedia Brown novels, and books that are now banned, like A Wrinkle In Time, and The Phantom Tollbooth.





                                        [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                        @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                        Making Documentary Films and Reality Videos: A Practical Guide to Planning, Filming, and Editing Documentaries of Real Events by Barry Hampe

                                        On the principle that the important people in one's life never receive enough recognition, I gratefully dedicate this book with love to three of them. To my sister Barbara Hempleman, who helped me to love reading and then writing... And to my brother Warren Hampe, who not only helped me to see behavior as it is, but has always been a wonderfully challenging guy to talk with... And to the memory of my teacher, colleague, and friend Sol Worth, who taught me that a craftsman values the work. I owe so much to you, and I miss you.

                                        Alt...On the principle that the important people in one's life never receive enough recognition, I gratefully dedicate this book with love to three of them. To my sister Barbara Hempleman, who helped me to love reading and then writing... And to my brother Warren Hampe, who not only helped me to see behavior as it is, but has always been a wonderfully challenging guy to talk with... And to the memory of my teacher, colleague, and friend Sol Worth, who taught me that a craftsman values the work. I owe so much to you, and I miss you.

                                          [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                          @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                          Han pasado 4 años y Raiden ya no es el chico débil del pasado. Con pura fuerza bruta y entrenamiento, aplasta a sus rivales y clasifica al gran torneo de la isla. ¡Luchará por su libertad y la de la princesa Himari! ⚔️💥
                                          fictograma.com/d/3221-capitulo

                                            [?]Isaac Asimov » 🤖 🌐
                                            @CuratedAsimov@mastodon.social

                                            "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.""

                                              [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                              @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                              En "Punto y coma": Cambió la cerradura para mantenerse a salvo. Descubrió demasiado tarde que algunas personas no necesitan llaves para entrar en tu vida.
                                              fictograma.com/d/3223-punto-y-

                                                [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                                @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                                En "Qualia": Despertó desnuda bajo un cielo rojo que no pertenecía a la Tierra. Cuando regresó, las manchas en su ropa fueron la única prueba de que no había sido un sueño.
                                                fictograma.com/d/3224-el-sol-r

                                                  [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                                  @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                                  🎃 Halloween 2017. Tres niñas, un disfraz de Cazafantasmas y una casa al final de Hillside Lane. Entraron buscando caramelos. Solo dos volvieron. La tercera nunca apareció. 👻🖤
                                                  fictograma.com/d/3225-hallowee

                                                    [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                                    @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                                    Esperar el colectivo en esta ciudad es deporte olímpico. El cartel del 132 lleva 10 minutos diciendo “0 minutos”. Filosofía pura. Mientras tanto, le explico a una señora cómo llegar a Spielberg al 800: “Siga por Granizo..."
                                                    fictograma.com/d/3226-eventos-

                                                      [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                                      @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                                      🌊 Abraham llega a Ocevaris: una ciudad flotante que se ahoga en agua negra y pesada. Para llegar a las Islas Muertas debe hacer un trato peligroso… pero el precio es su último artefacto. Entre la desesperación y la...
                                                      fictograma.com/d/3229-los-hech

                                                        [?]The Vulgar Tongue » 🤖 🌐
                                                        @TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us

                                                        ROUGH. To lie rough; to lie all night in one's clothes: called also roughing it. Likewise to sleep on the bare deck of a ship, when the person is commonly advised to chuse the softest plank.

                                                        A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                                        --
                                                        @histodons

                                                        Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): ROUGH. To lie rough; to lie all night in one's clothes: called also roughing it. Likewise to sleep on the bare deck of a ship, when the person is commonly advised to chuse the softest plank. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                                        Alt...Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): ROUGH. To lie rough; to lie all night in one's clothes: called also roughing it. Likewise to sleep on the bare deck of a ship, when the person is commonly advised to chuse the softest plank. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

                                                          [?]Fictograma.com » 🌐
                                                          @fictograma@mastodon.social

                                                          En "La presión espacial, Cap. XIII: Convencidos": 43 planetas acaban de cederle su voto.
                                                          La cascada de firmas no para. Su madre, sin embargo, solo tiene una pregunta:
                                                          —¿Por qué no has usado aún las ojivas nucleares? ..."

                                                          fictograma.com/d/3234-la-presi

                                                            [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
                                                            @dedication_bot@stefanbohacek.online

                                                            The Last Spirits of Manhattan by John A. McDermott

                                                            For Cornelia Banks McDermott, who taught her children many vital lessons, chief among them— never leave the house without a book

                                                            Alt...For Cornelia Banks McDermott, who taught her children many vital lessons, chief among them— never leave the house without a book

                                                              [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                              @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                              🎃 Halloween 2017. Tres niñas, un disfraz de Cazafantasmas y una casa al final de Hillside Lane. Entraron buscando caramelos. Solo dos volvieron. La tercera nunca... 👻🖤
                                                              fictograma.com/d/3225-hallowee

                                                                [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                                @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                                Esperar el colectivo en esta ciudad es deporte olímpico. El cartel del 132 lleva 10 minutos diciendo “0 minutos”. Filosofía pura. Mientras tanto, le explico a una señora cómo..."
                                                                fictograma.com/d/3226-eventos-

                                                                  [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                                  @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                                  «Al otro lado de los saberes del hombre, cansado y sumiso ante la realidad, reclamo: este corazón latiente y este brazo son míos. Aunque me llamen loco, dejaré...»
                                                                  fictograma.com/d/3227-corazon-

                                                                    [?]CNI_CNoticias Internacionales » 🌐
                                                                    @CNI_CNoticiasInternacionales@mastodon.social

                                                                    "Vio la luz antes de la luz...
                                                                    y volvió con el infinito escrito en el alma." Poema sobre el alma inquieta que cruza los límites del cielo para encontrar lo que...
                                                                    fictograma.com/d/3228-acerca-d

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