Mil gracias a Salvador Luis, por esta fantástica reseña 🖤🖤🖤

http://www.panoptista.com/mal-de-bosque-de-izaskun-gracia-quintana/

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The unlikely pen pal who shaped Tolkien’s later years

When deaf fan Eileen Elgar wrote to the author with notes for improvement, they began a remarkable friendship based on a shared interest in language, revealed in a set of letters now up for auction

by Lily Isaacs

https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-unlikely-pen-pal-who-shaped-tolkiens-later-years

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Photograph of J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1920s on leaving Leeds University. A black-and-white portrait photograph of a young man with neatly combed short hair, wearing a tweed jacket and white collar, gazing thoughtfully to one side against a dark background.

"An Old Man and his little Boy were once driving an Ass before them to the next market-town, where it was to be sold. 'Have you no more wit,' said a passer-by, 'than for you and your Son to trudge on foot, and let your Ass go light?' So the Man put his Boy on the Ass, and they went on again. 'You lazy young rascal!' said the next person they met; 'are you not ashamed to ride, and let your poor old Father go on foot?' The Man lifted off the Boy, and got up himself. Two women passed soon after, and one said to the other, 'Look at that selfish old fellow, riding on, while his little Son follows after on foot!' The Old Man thereupon took up the Boy behind him. The next traveller they met asked the Old Man whether or not the Ass was his own. Being answered that it was: 'To one would think so,' said he, 'from the way in which you use it. Why, you are better able to carry the poor animal than he is to carry both of you.' So the Old Man tied the Ass’s legs to a long pole, and he and his Son shouldered the pole, and staggered along under the weight. In that fashion they entered the town, and their appearance caused so much laughter, that the Old Man, mad with vexation at the result of his endeavors to give satisfaction to everybody, threw the Ass into the river, and seizing his Son by the arm, went his way home again."" - https://fablesofaesop.com/the-man-the-boy-and-the-donkey.html #fables #story #donkey #parable # #literature

Luna del lobisón. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz. #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagramespañol #reseñaliteraria #Libros #gothic #Kindle #kindle #explorepage #amazonkdp #amazonkindle #gothicstyle #poetry #poemas #verso #lirica #gothicfashion #literature #poetry #viral #viralvideo #viralvideos #ViralPost

Chapines (Mediocre Chonicles of Reality) Story by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice. #bookstagram #bookstagrammer
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Chapines (Crónicas mediocres de la realidad) Relato de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz. #bookstagram #bookstagrammer
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Talent. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice. #bookstagram #bookstagrammer
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El talento. Poema de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. Sus poemas en su voz. #bookstagram #bookstagrammer
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Wolf Moon. Poem by Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga. His poems in his own voice. #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagramespañol #reseñaliteraria #Libros #gothic #Kindle #kindle #explorepage #amazonkdp #amazonkindle #gothicstyle #poetry #poemas #verso #lirica #gothicfashion #literature #poetry #viral #viralvideo #viralvideos #ViralPost

Sky Daddy by Kate Folk #books #literature #dedication

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TO MY FRIENDS, NEW AND OLD. THE ONES I HAVEN'T TALKED TO IN A WHILE, AND THOSE I HAVEN'T MET YET.

You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion by Meera Shah #books #literature #dedication

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To my parents, who taught me to always look beyond myself and to do the right thing

Aquel viaje de 20 km fue «intensito». Me despedían… o eso creía. Llego a casa a echar el polvo de mi vida y mi mujer me suelta:
—¿Tú has visto cómo hablas? Si hasta yo soy experta en partos de cerdas. De dios del Bajo Aragón
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"La Vida (no tan) Normal de Juan - 003": Juan en su primera cita con Carla… y el narrador omnisciente metiéndose en todo. ¿Ella también lo escucha? Papas fritas, miradas sospechosas y una cuarta pared que tiembla.
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"Printing will tell you such useful things and such interesting things that not being able to read would be as bad as not being able to see."

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The small penis rule is an informal strategy used by authors to evade libel lawsuits. #MostDiscussed #Law #Literature #SexologyAndSexuality https://www.mostdiscussed.com/article/2000

😂 La Vida (no tan) Normal de Juan - 004

Juan limpiando su departamento como si fuera una batalla épica, mientras el narrador se burla sin piedad. Vela que huele a taxi, pochoclos quemados y una muleta con vida propia...
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CONTENT. A thick liquor, in imitation of chocolate, made of milk and gingerbread.

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

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=> playing with chiasmus in dark matter space - from my Radioactive Poetry

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struggle to study

study to struggle

struggle for what?

a mind in a universe

a universe in a mind

mindless dark matter?

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"Just then we came to the top of the hill, and looked down on the Ferry and the Hope. The Firth of Forth (as is very well known) narrows at this point to the width of a good-sized river, which makes a convenient ferry going north, and turns the upper reach into a landlocked haven for all manner of ships. Right in the midst of the narrows lies an islet with some ruins; on the south shore they have built a pier for the service of the Ferry; and at the end of the pier, on the other side of the road, and backed against a pretty garden of holly-trees and hawthorns, I could see the building which they called the Hawes Inn."
—Robert Louis Stevenson, "Kidnapped"
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/421/421-h/421-h.htm

#FirthOfForth #Scotland #literature

"“Why didn’t people just use a computer?”“That was before they had computers,” cried Paul.“Before?”“Sure. Do you think people always had computers? Didn’t you ever hear of cavemen?”"

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The al-mi'raj from medieval Arabic folklore resembles a yellow hare with a single horn. This creature is so fierce that much larger animals flee from it. The inhabitants of an island in the Indian Ocean gave Alexander the Great an al-mi'raj to repay him for slaying a dragon.

#WyrdWednesday #Mythology #Folklore #Literature #Arabia #Medieval #AlexandertheGreat #Monster

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Image of a fierce al-mi'raj from an old Arabic manuscript.

August Alle, who died OTD in 1952, was one of the figures association with the Siuru movement of Estonian #literature https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/estonia/?s=mb #travel #Estonia #history

A quotation from Salman Rushdie

When censorship intrudes on art, it becomes the subject; the art becomes “censored art,” and that is how the world sees and understands it. The censor labels the work immoral, or blasphemous, or pornographic, or controversial, and those words are forever hung like albatrosses around the necks of those cursed mariners, the censored works. The attack on the work does more than define the work; in a sense, for the general public, it becomes the work.

Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) Indian novelist
Speech (2012-05-06), Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, PEN World Voices Festival, New York City

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Aquel viaje de 20 km fue «intensito». Me despedían… o eso creía. Llego a casa a echar el polvo de mi vida y mi mujer me suelta:
—¿Tú has visto cómo hablas? Si hasta yo soy experta en partos de cerdas.
https://fictograma.com/d/3446-pico-dorado-2

#books #literature #writing

Ayuda a nuestro novel escritor romántico con un crítica literaria. Dile en qué debe mejorar. "VIVIRSE,PARTE 2: AMAR": 23 años. 12 horas de trabajo. Una rutina..

Entre compañeros que buscan...
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"La Vida (no tan) Normal de Juan - 003": Juan en su primera cita con Carla… y el narrador omnisciente metiéndose en todo. ¿Ella también lo escucha? Papas fritas, miradas...
https://fictograma.com/d/3448-la-vida-no-tan-normal-de-juan-003-cita-ndeg-1

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😂 La Vida (no tan) Normal de Juan - 004

Juan limpiando su departamento como si fuera una batalla épica, mientras el narrador se burla sin piedad. Vela que huele a taxi...
https://fictograma.com/d/3449-la-vida-no-tan-normal-de-juan-004-cita-ndeg-x

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Their Accompliced Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System by Brando Simeo Starkey #books #literature #dedication

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Never knew joy before you Haven't known sorrow since you May our Bond forever be Brave Love you forever Wendy

The World Turned Inside Out: Settler Colonialism as a Political Idea by Lorenzo Veracini #books #literature #dedication

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This one is for Clare. She was there when I wasn't.

Reading, and greatly enjoying, #ThreeBodyProblem - but my old Western 🧠 is having trouble with Chinese proper names. e.g.: identify/derive gender or track characters across plot lines

Seriously good book 👍️

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Weird Tales vol 13 number 01 (January 1929) - featured story: The Black Master by Seabury Quinn.

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Cover art by C. C. Senf

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Weird Tales vol 13 number 01 (January 1929) - featured story: The Black Master by Seabury Quinn. Cover art by C. C. Senf. The Unique Magazine, 25¢, 10¢ IN CANADA. A man wearing a red fez with a black tassel, a black mask covering his eyes and nose, and red trousers holds a woman in his arms. The man's right hand grips the hilt of a curved scimitar while his left arm supports the back of the woman, who has long black hair and a gold headband. She wears a pink sleeveless dress and leans her head back against the man's shoulder. A brown cloth sash is tied around the man's waist against a background of diagonal streaks in orange, yellow, and dark blue.

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In Arabian folklore, one of Sinbad the Sailor's adventures was when he sailed to the City of Apes. The city's inhabitants must sleep in boats on the water since at night savage apes come down from the mountains and enter the city to steal its fruit and attack any humans they find.

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Photo of snarling chimpanzees

Angels and Demons
Novel by Dan Brown.

An explosive international thriller, Angels & Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.
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Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop by J. Hoberman #books #literature #dedication

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In memory of intended readers Callie Angell (1948-2010), Mel Gordon (1947-2018), and Suze Rotolo (1943-2011)

"The Dantean conceptions of Inferno were childish and unworthy of the Divine imagination: fire and torture. Boredom is much more subtle. The inner torture of a mind unable to escape itself in any way, condemned to fester in its own exuding mental pus for all time, is much more fitting. Oh, yes, my friend, we have been judged, and condemned, too, and this is not Heaven, but hell."

#literature

“Annie S. Swan both requires revaluation through her own biography & calls into question easy valorisations of ‘danger’ as expressed in terms of explicit challenge & radicalism. The extent of her appeal & influence demands a more nuanced analysis of the politics of emotion & the gendering of reader response”

—Prof Glenda Norquay on Annie S. Swan (1859–1943) – born #OTD, 8 July

@litstudies

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https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2016/09/08/annie-shepherd-swan/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #romance #womenwriters

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Beyond OUTLANDER: Annie S. Swan & the Scottish Popular Romance Novel
Amy Burge, Scottish Literary Review 14/2, 2022 – via Project MUSE

Not just “slushy women’s romances”: Swan’s works are part of a longer tradition of Scottish popular romance fiction

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https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/871719

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #romance #womenwriters

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Abstract: Annie S. Swan has become recognised as one of the most significant Scottish women authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. However, her twentieth-century works remain largely understudied and dismissed due to their critical perception as simply 'slushy women's romances' (Sutherland). Such a view overlooks the potential importance of Swan's writing in this period for the development of the Scottish popular romance novel. A subgenre that has enjoyed increasing attention and success in recent years, the origins of the modern Scottish romance novel are generally traced to Gabaldon's Outlander (1991) and imitators in the 1990s and 2000s by authors like Terri Brisbin, Julie Garwood, and Lyndsay Sands. However, as I will argue in this article, Swan's twentieth-century works display several of the structures and motifs that are definitional for what we now term Scottish popular romance fiction. The article traces the shifting structures of Swan's twentieth-century writings, as well as her representation of Scotland as primitive, magical, and romantic, showing similarities between 1990s and 2000s Scottish romance and selected works of Swan from the 1910s to 1940s. Ultimately, the article argues that Swan's twentieth-century works can be classified as part of a longer tradition of Scottish popular romance fiction and that, rather than dismissing her 'slushy women's romances', we reposition her as an early writer of Scottish popular romance fiction.

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Annie S. Swan & THE INHERITANCE

From 2020: Angela Gilchrist, editor of THE PEOPLE’S FRIEND – first published in 1869 & the world’s longest-running women’s weekly magazine – discusses Annie S. Swan’s life & work with Prof Juliet Shields & Dr Charlotte Lauder

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV9DQJauD5I

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #romance #womenwriters

7-Jul-2026
Lost #medieval #manuscripts inferred by family tree

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1134963

#science #literature

‘To the Poet’ by Sterling North

https://www.deadpoetsdaily.com/p/sterling-north-poem-to-the-poet

#poem #poetry #english #literature

One more beautiful passage from When the Tree Sings by Stratis Haviaras. #greekliterature #literature #books

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One more beautiful passage from When the Tree Sings by Stratis Haviaras. #greekliterature #literature #books

MUGGLETONIANS. The sect or disciples of Lodowick Muggleton.

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

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This Week in Literary History: Ernest Hemingway is Wounded on the Italian Front

“When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you.”

https://lithub.com/this-week-in-literary-history-ernest-hemingway-is-wounded-on-the-italian-front/

Hemingway at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/50533

#books #literature

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This is a photo of Ernest Hemingway from 1916, showing him from the waist up. He wears a dark suit jacket, a white shirt with a collar, and a tie. His short dark hair is neatly combed, and he looks serious.

"We face eternity now. We have no universe left, no outside phenomena, no emotions, no passions. Nothing but ourselves and thought. We face an eternity of introspection, when all through history we have never known what to do with ourselves on a rainy Sunday."

#literature