En el Yermo el sol quema, las jaulas chirrian y el viento ácido anuncia la muerte.
Un orco oye la voz del metal, abre..

fictograma.com/d/3909-los-hijos-del-yermo-puerto-gris-capitulo-2

https://fictograma.com/d/3533-los-hijos-del-yermo-el-pulso-en-el-yermo-capitulo-1

#books #literature #writing

The Romantic Tragedies of a Drama King by Harry Trevaldwyn #books #literature #dedication

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To all the romances that couldn't happen, and all the ones that still can

Bajo Puerto Gris, la esfera esmeralda se abre y el Arquitecto se revela en luz: la Esencia es veneno y el Yermo...
https://fictograma.com/d/3911-los-hijos-del-yermo-proscritos-capitulo-4

https://fictograma.com/d/3910-los-hijos-del-yermo-el-altar-del-impostor-capitulo-3

#books #literature #writing

El corte de Kaelen se cierra bajo la luz azul de Lyra.
Más abajo, el calor de la vieja fundición y los ojos de Rask...
https://fictograma.com/d/3912-los-hijos-del-yermo-el-mercado-capitulo-5

https://fictograma.com/d/3913-los-hijos-del-yermo-la-fundicion-capitulo-6

#books #literature #writing

Las miradas se alargan. Un niño grita la recompensa.
Puerto Gris ya no es solo hostil: ahora tiene precio por sus cabezas.
Persiguidos por las...
Capítulo 7 de *Los hijos del yermo* https://fictograma.com/d/3914-los-hijos-del-yermo-cabezas-con-precio-capitulo-7

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🌊 **Capítulo 15: Náufrago**

Raiden se enfrenta al mar… y el mar no perdona.
Hambre, sed, tormenta y una isla desconocida.

¿Sobrevivirá?

👉 https://fictograma.com/d/3904-capitulo-15-naufrago

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Capítulo 12 de *Dragones Eternos* ya está aquí.
Emboscada, Yurak imposibles y la sombra del Korbulo cayendo sobre Varkos.
Katska y el Usak cruzan la línea.

https://fictograma.com/d/3905-dragones-eternos

#books #literature #writing

Nuevos capítulos de *Mi vida como vampiro* (XV y XVI) ya disponibles. Drama, baby shower y más vampiros 🩸

https://fictograma.com/d/3906-mi-vida-como-vampiro-capitulos-xv-y-xvi.

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Nuevo capítulo de *Rusia de Noche* (Capítulo 6) ya disponible. Tren nocturno, monjes y secretos en el búnker ❄️

https://fictograma.com/d/3908-rusia-de-noche-capitulo-6

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Secretos compartidos, complicidad y ese nudo en la garganta que solo la familia sabe provocar. 🤫💔
Sumérgete en «No le digas a mamá», un relato breve e intenso en Fictograma:
https://fictograma.com/d/3915-no-le-digas-a-mama

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En el Yermo el sol quema, las jaulas chirrian y el viento ácido anuncia la muerte.
Un orco oye la voz del metal, abre los cerrojos y... parlanchina hacia la tormenta.
"Los hijos del yermo":

https://fictograma.com/d/3533-los-hijos-del-yermo-el-pulso-en-el-yermo-capitulo-1

fictograma.com/d/3909-los-hijos-del-yermo-puerto-gris-capitulo-2

#books #literature #writing

"Moon is not a mirror of the Sun but of the soul [...] Moonlight not reveal but changes what it covers."

These two ideas together show me an interesting concept connection: the moon as a window to the introspection needed for change. A silent gift in the middle of the night.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/03/06/moonlight/

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#moonlight #fullmoon #TheMarginalian #art #literature #culture

Ashby, Thomas Almond (1848–1916)
Surgeon, teacher, author, Thomas A. Ashby was born near Front Royal, Virginia, November 18, 1848, the son of Thomas Newton and Elizabeth Almond Ashby, of good old English stock descending through Col. John Ashby, a friend of Washington.
He secured his preliminary training in Washington College, Virginia (now Washington and Lee…

— Howard Atwood Kelly
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How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking by Nigella Lawson #books #literature #dedication

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FOR JOHN, GODDESS-MAKER

MAUNDERING BROTH. Scolding.

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

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): MAUNDERING BROTH. Scolding. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

the naked liberty of daylight

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If such a post-world exists
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The Diaspora of Moonlight Interposed
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1/4

I am weary of “still,” and you of Tammuz of the soul,

I am weary of the weariness of time, and you of the radiance of the sky,

I am the guardian of the moments, I who have remained weary,

you have not been without impatience, why then this, and sometimes that?

Turning the pages of time, walking toward the alley of sorrow,

#poetry #Literature #philosophy
#philosophyofmind #poetrylovers

2/4

upon the threshold of the heart, revealed, I have arrived from the depths of my soul,

you, with the broken-hearted, with the burning pain of those torn apart,

you have lain in wait, you have blocked the way,

you became me and you became free,

strange that you became faithless, you remained, a weary soul,

you are you, how shameless you have become,

#poetry #poetrybooks
#philosophyofmind
#philosophy #Literature

@rezamemaryan
Caro Reza, su Mastodon si può cambiare e correggere. Noto un hashtag sbagliato, quello corretto è #Literature.
Buona serata. 🌿

3/4

a captive of us and of our way, you have set fire to our moon,

to our ruined harvest, come,

come and see the burned, those whose souls have reached their lips,

they call you, openly,

“Mercy, mercy,”

from the dust and turmoil of this time, no trace remains upon the earth,

of the tracks of those who passed through,

#poetry #poetrybook #philosophyofmind
#philosophy #Literature

4/4

you remained, and I, like a stranger,

I, from this fleeting world, I, from you,

I give you a sign,

and you, from me, this keepsake,

that I am weary of “still,” and you of Tammuz of the soul.

#poetry #poetrybooks
#philosophyofmind
#philosophypoem #philosophy #Literature

The Outline of Sanity: A Life of G. K. Chesterton by Alzina Stone Dale #books #literature #dedication

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To two men who reminded me of G.K. Chesterton My father, Professor Raleigh Webster Stone and My uncle, the Revered Paul Stevens Kramer in loving thanks for what they taught me

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We knew this day would come.

Some of us have known for decades, have been writing and pontificating about this since Ken Jennings lost at Jeopardy and Kasparov lost at chess. The writing was on the wall, and now the writing is everywhere. Literally. Artificial Intelligence is writing about as well as humans — at least well enough to cause confusion and speculation — and that’s creating an existential crisis among authors, confusion among readers, and legal action within the industry.

Which takes me back to my statement about lucky windows. We had less than 20 years of writing being hard and publishing being easy, and we will never get that window back. Ever.

I’ve always felt bad for authors who lived and worked before 2007. The choices unavailable to them made life harder than it needed to be. Getting their work out into the world was brutal. After KDP, that brutality became a choice, not a necessity.

I now feel awful for anyone who wants to tell a story post-2026. You will forever be doubted. If you love an em dash the way I do, or you like flowy run-on sentences like I do, if you grew up reading Proust to let the words flow over you in all their glory, if you memorized sonnets so the iambic pentameter would soak into your bones, you’re gonna sound like a fucking bot.

Less than 20 years. More like 10, honestly. You can argue that 2014-ish was when self-publishing became legit and 2024-ish was when the tools made AI writing viable. A decade where it was easy in the ways it should be and hard in the ways it should be. That’s insane. Ten years across the one-hundred-thousand years of language.

Q: Why Were J.R.R. Tolkien’s Works So Revolutionary?

ANSWER: I think people sometimes give J.R.R. Tolkien credit for inventing things he didn’t invent. Tolkien did not invent Elves, Dwarves, dragons, magic swords, enchanted rings, heroic quests, ancient kingdoms, or supernatural enemies. Other writers had created imaginary worlds before The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were published, and […]

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4 small figures walk across a wild landscape unaware of the layers of history below them that are exposed in an illustrative cross-section. The words 'Why Were J.R.R. Tolkien's Works So Revolutionary' float above the landscape.

A boy leaves a small house
Of sea light. He leaves
The sea smells, creel
And limpet and cod.

The boy walks between steep
Stone houses, echoing
Gull cries, the all-around
Choirs of the sea…

—George Mackay Brown, “Island School”
published in Carve the Runes: Selected Poems (Polygon 2021)

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#Scottish #literature #Orkney #poem #poetry #GeorgeMackayBrown #backtoschool

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Island School George Mackay Brown A boy leaves a small house Of sea light. He leaves The sea smells, creel And limpet and cod. The boy walks between steep Stone houses, echoing Gull cries, the all-around Choirs of the sea, Ship noises, shop noises, clamours Of bellman and milkcart. The boy comes at last To a tower with a tall desk And a globe and a blackboard And a stern chalk- smelling lady. A bell Nods and summons. A girl comes, cornlight In the eyes, smelling Of peat and cows And the rich midden. Running she comes, late, Reeling in under the last Bronze brimmings. She sits Among twenty whispers.

"There is no way of being almost funny or mildly funny or fairly funny or tolerably funny. You are either funny or not funny and there is nothing in between. And usually it is the writer who thinks he is funny and the reader who thinks he isn't."

#literature

Born this day: 08/28/1916 (d. 05/26/2013) John Holbrook Vance was an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and mysteries. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made him its 15th Grand Master in 1997. The Dragon Masters won the Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction in 1963.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Vance

#Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
#JackVance @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

https://astralcomputing.com

Art by Jack Gaughan

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Galaxy Magazine (August 1962) - featured story: Three Portraits And A Prayer by Frederik Pohl. Cover art by Jack Gaughan. The Dragon Masters Complete Short Science-Fiction Novel by Jack Vance, Jack Sharkey, Jim Harmon, Willy Ley, 50c A man with black hair sits atop a large orange reptilian creature, leaning forward while his hand grips the hilt of a sword. He wears a blue and black armored suit with silver trim. The large creature has orange and tan patterned skin and red eyes, lunging across the frame with its limbs extended under the man's weight. In the bottom right, a small blue creature with purple skin and red eyes faces the viewer with its mouth wide open to reveal large sharp teeth. The man holds a sword with a silver blade, while the blue creature holds an axe featuring a large silver blade and a black handle. The background consists of dark green and blue foliage under a dark sky, where several silhouettes of humanoid figures appear in the distance.

Miracles
#writing #poetry #literature #life

"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best."

~ Robertson Davies, born today, 1913.

#RobertsonDavies #Today #Quote #Literature

"Straightforward preaching spoils the effectiveness of a story. If you can't resist the impulse to improve your fellow human beings, do it subtly."

#literature

The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death by Colson Whitehead #books #literature #dedication

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FOR ALISON RICH who made people pick up a book about elevator inspectors

God tagging church walls (detention and mountain bikes)

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"As the #scholar #BrettGary notes in an #essay in the #book Forged in #America: How #Irish- #Jewish Encounters Shaped a Nation, it was two Jewish #NewYorkCity lawyers, #MorrisErnst and #AlexanderLindey, who “planned the battle to free #Ulysses from the clutches of the censors, making the story of #Joyce’s protagonist #LeopoldBloom, a #Dubliner of Irish and Jewish parentage, available for all the world to read.” In August 1931, two years before they’d finally bring the book to #trial in a federal courtroom in #NewYork City, #Lindey reminded his senior partner #Ernst of the stakes of their campaign: “I still feel very keenly that this would be the grandest #obscenity case in the #history of #law and #literature, and I am ready to do anything in the world to get it started.”

#Gary explains that “Ernst and Lindey’s defense of Ulysses needs to be situated in the context of their larger pursuit of what Ernst called ‘rational sex laws..."

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Sphinx
To express yourself, that would be a riddle.

Goethe, Faust

Photo: Kathrin Federer

#bookstodon #Literature #Photography

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Black-and-white waterscape: the upper half is reflected upside down in the water—a large white cloud against a black background, a thin brown strip, and in the center, a small tree with a short trunk and a lush crown. Photo by Kathrin Federer.

nuair a tha mi fhìn nam sheasamh
aig ceann Loch an Dala
’s mi a’ coimhead thar cuain geur
a’ deàrrsadh ’s a’ deàlradh
fo ghrian na sìorraidheachd
chan fhaic mi sgath dhen ghlasadh cheilteach…

—Iain S. Mac a’ Phearsain, “ceann Loch an Dala”
published in Friends & Kangaroos: New Writing Scotland 17

#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #Islay

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ceann Loch an Dala Iain S. Mac a’ Phearsain nuair a tha mi fhìn nam sheasamh aig ceann Loch an Dala ’s mi a’ coimhead thar cuain geur a’ deàrrsadh ’s a’ deàlradh fo ghrian na sìorraidheachd chan fhaic mi sgath dhen ghlasadh cheilteach a’ ciaradh Ile na eilean shìthichean faoin ach soitheach mo shinnsearan a’ triall dhan iar Gilleasbaig is Eòghann a’ cur cùl ri Cill’ Nèimh an aghaidh leis a’ ghaoith ’s an làmhan air a’ chliathaich blàth ’s cha mhòr air chrith.

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head of Loch Indaal John Scott MacPherson personally, when I stand at the head of Loch Indaal and look out over a razor-sharp sea shining and radiating under an everlasting sun I see none of the Celtic twilight reducing Islay to an island of vacant faeries but my ancestors’ ship heading for the west Archibald and Hugh turning backs on Kilnave facing downwind their hands on the gunwhales warm and almost shaking.

Jaroslav Rudiš liest am 24.09.2026 von 19:00 Uhr – 21:00 Uhr im Tietz (Moritzstraße 20, 09111 Chemnitz) aus seinem neuen Buch „Wo die toten sprechen“ und wir sind mit einem Büchertisch dabei. :D

Mehr Infos gibt es hier: https://buchhandlung-am-bruehl.de/2026/08/jaroslav-rudis-liesst-aus-seinem-neusten-roman-wo-die-toten-sprechen/

#chemnitz #Lesung #literature #literatur #books #bucher #bookstodon #veranstaltung #europe #tschechien #sachsen

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Das Cover von "Wo die Toten sprechen" von Jaroslav Rudiš. Auf einem Weißen Cover sind lila stiliserte Lilien zu sehen, im böhmischen Stil. In der Mitte ein alter weißer Volvo aus den 90ern.

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🪶 Words That Last: from Thomas Mann's Lübeck to Dante's Florence to Anatolia, meet the poets and guardians whose words shaped whole languages.
Today's Foreign Trivia #92: Words That Last. Five questions, five languages, no account needed.
#literature #poetry #languages #OnThisDay #books #ForeignFive
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Foreign Trivia #92: Words That Last card

(Isaiah, ix. 15-20)

Hear what God the Lord hath spoken,
"O my people, faint and few,
Comfortless, afflicted, broken,
Fair abodes I build for you.
Thorns of heartfelt tribulation
Shall no more perplex your ways;
You shall name your walls, Salvation,
And your gates shall all be Praise.

"There, like streams that feed the garden,
Pleasures without end shall flow,
For…

— William Cowper
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In addition to the works mentioned Wundt has published a valuable Enleitung in die Philosophie (1901), and he is at present engaged on a comprehensively planned Völkerpsychologie, the content of which consists of investigations concerning Language, Myth and Custom.

— Harald Høffding
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Chapter 1.2 An enchanting meeting

الفصل الأول: لقاء ساحر

Lina was a little confused, then she dared to speak to the attractive neighbour.

- Assalamu alaykum, beautiful, what is your name?"

- I'm not sure, I feel different here with you.

- You should have a name. Very soon the dawn will come upon us, and the plane will land in
London.

- In that case, my name is Duha.

- "Duha," Lina repeated. "Duha…" The name was in her mouth like honey.

But what if she was only my imagination? Lina worried.

Then she did something she had never done before.

- May I touch you? Lina whispered

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تحيّرت لينة قليلًا ثم تجاسرت على الحديث مع الجارة الجذّابة.

- السلام عليكم يا جميلة، ما اسماك؟

- أنا لست متأكدة، أشعر بأنني مختلفة هنا معك

- يجب أن يكون لكِ اسم. قريبًا سيحلّ الضحى علينا، وستهبط الطائرة في لندن

في هذا الحالة اسمي ضحى

ضحى كررت لينة. ضحى... الاسم كان في فمها كالعسل

ومع ذلك، ماذا لو كانت هي خيالي فقط؟ قلقت لينة

وهنا هي فعلت ما لم تفعلْه من قبل

هل أستطيع أن ألمسك؟ همست لينة
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Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes by Elizabeth Losh #books #literature #dedication

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Dedication The book is dedicated to my husband Mel Horan, who proofread every page, and to my dad, Samuel Losh, who gave me my first computer, an 8-bit Xerox 820 with enormous eight-inch disk drives

I have found you

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Aus der Reihe "Literarische Orte":
Nördlingen – wo «Die Andere Bibliothek» herkam

https://birgit-boellinger.com/die-andere-bibliothek/

#literature #bavaria

Hesitation and Trust
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A Poem Recited by God as Best as I Could Understand Her
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Exertion on maple coats
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fishing for neither capsule of the house
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