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Sancho Panza se convierte en escudero de don Quijote a cambio de... en Capítulo VII... ⚔️🛡️ #DonQuijote
https://fictograma.com/d/3173-el-ingenioso-hidalgo-don-quijote-de-la-mancha-parte-i-capitulo-7
«La brevedad es el alma del talento». En las escenas IV, V y VI de #Hamlet, Polonio cree haber descubierto la verdadera causa de la locura del Príncipe, mientras las intrigas de palacio..
https://fictograma.com/d/3175-hamlet-acto-2-escenas-4-5-y-6
En "El indio: La tabla de la ley», un desgarrador relato que retrata la profunda desigualdad, el misticismo y la resistencia de una comunidad indígena...
https://fictograma.com/d/3174-el-indio-segunda-parte-la-tabla-de-la-ley-gregorio-lopez-y-fuentes
"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.
Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) Catalan-Cuban-French author, diarist
More about this quote: wist.info/nin-anais/84384/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #anaisnin #books #censorship #freedom #literature #oppression #puritanism
I mind when I was a bairnie hou ma mither
brocht out ae day a kist o skinklan things,
ferlies I thocht them, ilk mair rare nor anither,
aa kind o gowdies, stanes and chains and rings…
—Douglas Young, “Thesaurus Paleo-Scoticus”
10 June is Gies a Scots Poem Day
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #GiesAScotsPoemDay
2026 marks the centenary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”. For Gies a Scots Poem Day, Colin Bramwell invited some of the standard-bearers of present-day Scots poetry to compose new work responding to MacDiarmid & his legacy
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/gies-a-scots-poem-day-2026/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #GiesAScotsPoemDay #HughMacDiarmid
Born this day: 06/10/1952 (d. 01/31/2010)
Kage Baker was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. The Women of Nell Gwynne's (2010) won the Nebula and Locus Awards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kage_Baker
#Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
#KageBaker @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction
Cover art by J. K. Potter
Weird Tales vol X number 2 (August 1927) - featured story: The Bride of Osiris by Otis Adelbert Kline
#Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #books #bookstodon #coverart #bookart #bookcovers
#OtisAdelbertKline
@books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction
Cover art by Hugh Rankin
In the Mouth of the Room #2
Genre: A live composition of poetry, sound, and bodiesLineup: Curated and hosted by Sunni Lamin Barrow | Line up tbaTime: 20:30 - 22:00 hrsTickets: € 12,50 (vanaf) | Regulier: €17,50 | Student/CJP/<26: €12,50 | Stadspas Groene Stip: €2,50Tickets
What does a room hold?
And what does it refuse?
What does it swallow and amplify?
And if the room speaks back, do we answer?
In The Mouth of the Room is a 70-minute performance program where poetry, music, and movement unfold as a continuous act of listening. Across four artists, the stage becomes a living space, one that breathes and responds, and all who enter it become part of it.
Each artist contributes to a shared composition where nothing fully begins or ends, but instead circulates. A voice lingers. A sound stretches. A body interrupts or absorbs. Works bleed into one another, forming a single evolving landscape for the evening.
The “mouth” is both metaphor and mechanism: a site of speech, but also of consumption and transformation. The room listens as much as it speaks. Together with the audience, the artists shape what can be said and shared, and what remains unsaid and unshared.
This is an invitation to experience performance as something shared and unstable, where boundaries between disciplines dissolve, and where the audience is not outside the work, but within it.
Time: 2026-07-25 20:30:00+02:00 / 22:00:00+02:00
Graeme Armstrong: Raveheart
22 June, Erskine – £12
Graeme Armstrong discusses his new novel RAVEHEART: a high-octane narcotic trip of a story where underground rave culture clashes with a dystopian regime. Followed by a Q&A & book signing
German authors who wrote about Freemasonry, and were Masons, include Gottfried Lessing ("Ernst and Falk" and "Nathan the Wise") and Johan Wolfgang von Goethe ("Wilhelm Meister").
Other famous authors who used Masonic themes include Lew Wallace, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Burns, Rudyard Kipling, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
#Freemasonry #Freimaurerei #Masonry #2B1ASK1 #History #Literature #publishing
#books #literature
The BBC has has polled book critics that reside outside the UK to see what are their favourite British books. Their choices had not to include plays, poetry, narrative or short story collections. The list contains a wide range of authors from the 1700s to modern day. Middlemarch by George Elliot (pen name- actually Mary Ann Evans) came top. the whole list can be seen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20151204-the-100-greatest-british-novels
Of Mice and Mountain Daisies: Robert Burns & Nature
17 June, Ellisland – tickets by donation
Led by acclaimed authors & historians Neil Baxter & Mary Craig, this special event will examine how Robert Burns experienced nature not simply as an observer, but as a poet whose daily life at Ellisland was shaped by the land, the River Nith & the rhythms of rural life
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #RobertBurns #poetry #nature #naturepoetry
Drifting Pleasantly In The Midday » 🌐
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This week’s wallpapers are from Set 8, for The Worlds Across Time Trilogy. To download them, visit this link and scroll down to the last Book-Themed-Wallpaper link on that page.
Generally, I haven’t written epic fantasy. Or even high fantasy. My fantasy has always been a type of low fantasy, using mildly unrealistic elements to explain typical things more creatively, and blending a lot of science fiction into it. In early years, I heard many people whine online about their dislike of combining these 2 genres, but I could never find any actual rules in the speculative genre that don’t allow me to do so. And honestly, I’ve never been that big into following rules to begin with. But when I began to work on these wallpapers, I focused purely on a thematic fantasy ambience. While the 3 Worlds Across Time books contain a lot of historical, even contemporary, and sci-fi elements, I suddenly started thinking that doesn’t make them any less fantasy. What famous fantasy stories don’t draw from at least one of these other genres?
In fact, Fantasy makes no sense unless you have some concept of Ordinary Reality, not only underlying the story, but actively woven into it. My stories also explore spiritual and deeply psychological concepts–but in presentation, I never address the impending end of the world. Character situations rarely affect anyone except themselves. And I do not use magic frequently. When writing these stories, I just never thought of including, for instance, spells, trained enchantresses, or wizards. Only years later did I even notice that these characters appear often in other fantasy I read. My mind just skipped over them as uninteresting.
But when I began to use some really beautiful templates saved in Canva, I was surprised. Dragons fit really well into This Merry Summertime, even into sarcastic quotations like the one used in the wallpaper. Taking a basic galaxy or space design for Ryan and Essie was super-obvious-stale. But I found these Little Squiggles (Canva specializes in Little Squiggles, and they can look great once you figure out how to implement them) that gently evoke the genetic spiral of DNA, to describe Ryan and Essie’s underlying closeness, without showing it blatantly. For one thing, because that would give the incorrect idea that this book uses a genetic mutation plot! Which is an admirable, but different storyline.

I think this series wallpaper just about sums up my fantasy writing. It makes connections to the unseen just as much as magic-heavy or epic stories do, but you might miss this at first. The ideas are veiled behind the low-key vibe. If you are the kind of person I like, you will see and understand without having it explained. If you don’t figure it out, you may be better off pursuing another author.
Facets of Fantasy’s “Jurant” is one of the few stories that uses what seems to be an inborn magical trait in one of the characters–Sekana is able to raise people to life. But “Halogen Crossing” actually contains some of the most surreal and fantastical elements. They are also largely very dark and kept unknown in the story, symbolized by the deep and mysterious ocean that surrounds Cassandra’s island home. Like the ocean around Moana’s home, no one knows how far it goes. Some questions aren’t answered in HC. This DOES NOT MEAN THE QUESTIONS AREN’T THERE. They simply aren’t explored openly. I looked at the Facets wallpaper for this set, all the varying shades of blue and ocean, and I thought of all the ones I’ve made, this most reflects what Halogen Crossing is about. I hadn’t done one for this story before.
Yhe essential quality of all fantasy, which is examining what is behind the daily world we see, the internal and core movements that make people do things, is actually present in my books. I had grown to believe myself that Worlds Across Time was really just a compilation of other genres written as fantasy because I grew up in a clique of fantasy readers. But after working on these wallpapers, I learned a couple of new skills for image insertion (especially proud of getting central quote image into a frame on MerrySummer’s Wallpaper!) And I realized sometimes it’s ABSOLUTELY HEINOUS to believe what other people tell you.
RE: https://typo.social/@Luke/116671739937301786
As much care as went into making this impressive show (it revealing the breadth of the human condition), it is precisely this that makes it hard to watch but compelling to not ignore.
Especially during this …moment of tyranny — a mere 80 years later.
"We have, I believe, crossed a new threshold, and all authored writing [...] will be judged according to which side of that divide it falls on. On one side are texts produced before the arrival of generative #largeLanguageModels (#LLMs). On the other, everything that has followed—texts that might still be useful, even compelling, but that will always face a lingering suspicion of not being entirely human..."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/fakes-future-artificial-intelligence-llms-larb-quarterly-traffic/
#AI #artificialIntelligence #tech #literature #techCriticism
A literary history map of Stirling has been launched to celebrate the city’s wealth of myths & legends & contemporary writing greats.
Stirling’s map offers six literary routes tracing the steps of Scotland’s great writers & the sites that inspired them, from the Golden Lion Hotel, where Robert Burns etched his “Stirling Lines” on a window, to the Trossachs of Walter Scott’s “The Lady of the Lake”.
https://www.stirling.gov.uk/news/step-into-stirling-s-story-as-new-literary-walking-map-launched/
GRIG. A farthing. A merry grig; a fellow as merry as a grig: an allusion to the apparent liveliness of a grig, or young eel.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons
The appearance of the Albatross to lead - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Gustave Doré (1876)
#illustration #drawing #draw #engraving #book #poetry #author #vintage #rancient #art #history #literature #graphicart #sea #scifi #sciencefiction #gustavedoré #samueltaylorcoleridg
"If, as I maintain and firmly believe, there is no objective definition of intelligence, and what we call intelligence is only a creation of cultural fashion and subjective prejudice, what the devil is it we test when we make use of an intelligence test?"
💡 Did You Know?
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in three days, inspired by a nightmare.
Born in 1810, Margaret Fuller Was Labeled a Child Prodigy. She Later Used Her Intellect to Ask Important Questions About Women’s Role in America
Her writing posed the novel premise: What does it mean to be a woman? Her early death meant she never saw the movement she inspired
by Megan Marshall
Books by Margaret Fuller at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2829
Eight Overlooked Characters from Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books
Everyone loves the White Rabbit and the Cheshire Cat, but what about these weird and wonderful creations?
By Kelly Robinson
https://reactormag.com/eight-overlooked-characters-from-lewis-carrolls-alice-books/
Books by Lewis Carroll at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7
This ebook explains what AI really is in a simple and humorous way. It describes the history and inner workings of AI.
https://www.amazon.de/AI-Demystified-English-Torben-Kopp-ebook/dp/B0H22FQTTQ
#ai #artificialIntelligence #llm #openai #anthropic #chatgpt #claude #copilot #technology #science #turing #ebook #literature #nonfiction