Romo by Bill Romanowski #books #literature #dedication

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To my alter ego, "Romo," who became the symbol of my ceaseless drive for perfection. You are being retired, but you will always remain alive as my burning ambition to be the best in everything I do.

Heritage had passed the stage where he was conscious of hunger. Indeed, there was an almost complete and ascetic severance of mental and physical consciousness, a serene exhilaration in which his mind functioned with amazing clarity.
Questions for whose answer he had often groped blindly were now revealed to him as vividly as a strange countryside is photographed upon…

— John D. Swain
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Lines etched on a window at Wingate’s Inn, Stirling, 26 August 1787

Here Stewarts once in triumph reign’d,
And laws for Scotland’s weal ordain’ d;
But now unroof’d their Palace stands,
Their Sceptre’s fall’n to other hands…

#OTD, 26 August, 1787, Robert Burns wrote this poem with a diamond-tipped pen on a window in Stirling

https://burnsmuseum.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/graffiti-artist/

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Lines etched on a window at Wingate’s Inn, Stirling, 26 August 1787 Robert Burns Here Stewarts once in triumph reign’d, And laws for Scotland’s weal ordain’d; But now unroof’d their Palace stands, Their Sceptre’s fall’n to other hands; Fall’n indeed, and to the Earth Whence grovelling reptiles take their birth. The injur’d STEWART-line are gone, A Race outlandish fills their throne: An idiot race, to honour lost— Who know them best despise them most.

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“The life of John Buchan reads like one of his adventure stories… he roamed both continents & careers alike, leaping from one cliffhanger to the next”

John Buchan (1875–1940) – from son of the manse to Governor-General of Canada – was born #OTD, 26 August.

A 🎂 🧵

1/9

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/the-reign-of-saturn/

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John Buchan wasn’t just a master of the suspense thriller: he also wrote poetry, short stories, essays, biographies & histories – & was an editor, publisher, intelligence officer, civil servant, politician, & churchman

Nick Rankin examines John Buchan’s life – currently available on BBC Sounds

2/9

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qjq6h

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THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS is a ticking bomb of a book. “The speed is breathtaking,” noted former MI5 chief Dame Stella Rimington. “It doesn’t matter that the reader has no clue where he is being taken.”

How THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS created the modern thriller

3/9

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/thirty-nine-steps-modern-thriller-john-buchan/

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“Class-conscious we are, and class-conscious wull be
Till our fit’s on the neck o’ the Boorjoyzee”
—Dougal, chief of the Gorbals Die-Hards, in John Buchan’s 1922 novel HUNTINGTOWER

Buchan’s father was minister at the John Knox Free Church in the Gorbals, Glasgow

4/9

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17491019.gorbals-39-steps---can-learn-love-john-buchan/?ref=li

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Author of more than 100 books, dozens of short stories & poems, thousands of articles… Ursula Buchan explores her grandfather’s rich literary legacy, via The History of Literature podcast

5/9

https://www.historyofliterature.com/611-john-buchan-with-ursula-buchan-my-last-book-with-marsha-gordon-a-hemingway-letter/

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But Davie’s deid!
Nae mair gude nor ill can betide him.
We happit him doun by Beaumont toun,
And the half o’ my hert’s in the mools aside him.

“Home Thoughts from Abroad”—one of John Buchan’s First World War poems in Scots

6/9

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/

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John Buchan Home Thoughts from Abroad Aifter the war, says the papers, they’ll no be content at hame, The lad that hae feucht wi’ death twae ’ear i’ the mud and the rain and the snaw; For aifter a sodger’s life the shop will be unco tame; They’ll ettle at fortune and freedom in the new lands far awa’. No me! By God! No me! Aince we hae lickit oor faes And aince I get oot o’ this hell, For the rest o’ my leevin’ days I’ll mak a pet o’ mysel’. I’ll haste me back wi’ an eident fit And settle again in the same auld bit. And oh! the comfort to snowk again The reek o’ my mither’s but-and-ben, The wee box-bed and the ingle neuk And the kail-pat hung frae the chimley-heuk! I’ll gang back to the shop like a laddie to play, Tak doun the shutters at skreigh o’ day, And weigh oot floor wi’ a carefu’ pride, And hear the clash o’ the countraside. I’ll wear for ordinar’ a roond hard hat, A collar and dicky and black cravat. If the weather’s wat I’ll no stir ootbye Wi’oot an umbrella to keep me dry. I think I’d better no tak a wife— I’ve had a’ the adventure I want in life.— But at nicht, when the door are steeked, I’ll sit, While the bleeze loups high frae the aiken ruit, And smoke my pipe aside the crook. And read in some douce auld-farrant book; Or crack wi’ Davie and mix a rummer, While the auld wife’s pow nid-nods in slum’er; And hark to the winds gaun tearin’ bye And thank the Lord I’m sae warm and dry. When simmer brings the lang bricht e’en, I’ll daunder doun to the bowling-green, Or delve my yaird and my roses tend

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For the big floo’er-show in the next back-end. Whiles, when the sun blinks aifter rain, I’ll tak my rod and gang up the glen; Me and Davie, we ken the pˇles Whaur the troot grow great in the howes o’ the hills; And, wanderin’ back when the gloamin’ fa’s And the midges dance in the hazel shaws, We’ll stop at the yett ayont the hicht And drink great wauchts o’ the scented nicht, While the hoose lamps kin’le raw by raw And a yellow star hings ower the law. Davie will lauch like a wean at a fair And nip my airm to mak certain shüre That we’re back frae yon place o’ dule and dreid, To oor ain kind warld— But Davie’s deid! Nae mair gude nor ill can betide him. We happit him doun by Beaumont toun, And the half o’ my hert’s in the mools aside him.

“You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass…”
—John Buchan, THE POWER-HOUSE (1914)

David Goldie, at our 2024 Schools Conference, discusses why we should read John Buchan today

7/9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_wvxwN2puY

#Scottish #literature #JohnBuchan #20thcentury

John Buchan: A Man For Our Time?

Prof Murray Pittock paints a fascinating picture of John Buchan – a literary legend & a man who was ahead of his time on many issues that still resonate today, from Scottish nationalism to the rights of indigenous peoples

8/9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5zPRJt1Hdg

#Scottish #literature #JohnBuchan #20thcentury

A Queer Warld
Four Short Stories by John Buchan
FREE EBOOK

Although John Buchan is best remembered as the author of thrillers such as THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS, it was his short fiction that established him as a master of storytelling & suspense

9/9

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/a-queer-warld/

#Scottish #literature #JohnBuchan #20thcentury #shortfiction #shortstory #shortfiction

F a straight line () meeting two other straight lines, ( and ) makes with them the alternate angles ( and ; and ) equal, these two straight lines are parallel.

— Oliver Byrne
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Like, follow, share to help support libraries!

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Moby Dick: The 19th-Century novel that challenged our fear of the 'monstrous' whale

By Elizabeth Sulis Kim

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20260819-moby-dick-the-19th-century-novel-that-challenged-our-fear-of-the-monstrous-whale

Moby Dick is available at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701

#books #literature

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Title: Whale Fishery of New England Editor: Mass.) State Street Trust Company (Boston A small rowboat crew of whalers, harpoons in hand, approaching a large sperm whale as it thrashes at the surface with its tail raised. A larger sailing ship sits in the background.

Moments
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Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
And all the craggy mountain yields.

— Christopher Marlowe
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The first school south of the Columbia river was the Mission school, taught by Philip L. Edwards in 1835, near Old Champoeg, in what is now Marion county. Commencing with only a few pupils, twenty-five more were brought in from the settlers on French prairie, and from native Indians, on either side of the Cascade mountains, until all the persons, pupils and others…

— Joseph Gaston
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Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr #books #literature #dedication

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DEDICATION This book is dedicated to the trans community. As I worked on this biography of the transgender pioneer Candy Darling, I saw that community increasingly demonized in ways both cruel and traumatizing. So, dear trans community: May this account of one life make a difference. May you be understood. May you be appreciated. May you be loved.

"Philosophy," says Hegel, "is utterly useless and fruitless, and, for this very reason, is the sublimest of all pursuits, the most deserving of our attention, and the most worthy of our seal"—a somewhat Coleridegy assertion, with a rivulet of deep meaning in a meadow of words. It would be wasting time to disentangle the paradox—and the more so as no one will…

— Edgar Allan Poe
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💡 Did You Know?

Bram Stoker spent 7 years researching Dracula, studying Romanian folklore — despite never visiting Romania.

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"For man to become successful, for man to establish himself as the ruler of the planet, it was necessary for him to use his brain as something more than a device to make the daily routine of getting food and evading enemies a little more efficient. Man had to learn to control his environment.""

#literature

Revelation through Joseph Smith to Oliver Cowdery, Fayette, New York, September 1830. History of the Church 1:109-11.
Behold, I say unto thee, Oliver, that it shall be given unto thee that thou shalt be heard by the church in all things whatsoever thou shalt teach them by the Comforter, concerning the revelations and commandments which I have…

— The Doctrine and Covenants (unsourced)
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"I do things with no faith, but like a clock."

Federico García Lorca

#literature

DRAGGLETAIL or DAGGLETAIL. One whose garments are bespattered with dag or dew: generally applied to the female sex, to signify a slattern.

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

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Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): DRAGGLETAIL or DAGGLETAIL. One whose garments are bespattered with dag or dew: generally applied to the female sex, to signify a slattern. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

'TIS NOT thy flowing hair of orient gold,
Nor those bright eyes, like sapphire gems that glow;
Nor cheek of blushing rose, nor breast of snow,
The varying passions of the heart could hold:

— Robinson
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To Atticus on his way to Rome, from Rome, November 54 BC
At last the long-expected letter from you! Back to Italy, how delightful! What wonderful fidelity to your promise! What a charming voyage! About this last, by Hercules, I was very nervous, remembering the fur wrappers of your former crossing. But, unless I am mistaken, I shall see you sooner than you say…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. What does the scientist have to offer in exchange? Uncertainty! Insecurity!"

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Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear by Dr. Carl L. Hart #books #literature #dedication

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For Parker and countless other real [n-word]s— who shielded me from the hit, making it possible for a hood counterfeit to become mainstream legit.

Poemas de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga.
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Poemas de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga.
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‘The Panther’ by Rainer Maria Rilke

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IT starts not far beyond the centre of the world, the Bank of England, the Stock Exchange and a regular jungle of other banks and financial establishments; this Golden Shore is almost washed by the black waves of East London.

— Karel Čapek
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Since now the hour is come at last,
When you must quit your anxious lover;
Since now, our dream of bliss is past,
One pang, my girl, and all is over.

— George Gordon, Lord Byron
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One of my favorite authors. Because of his humanistic stance.

#johnsteinbeck #literature #books

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GEORGETOWN, the capital of British Guiana (see Guiana),
and the seat of the colonial government, situated on the left
bank of the Demerara river at its mouth, in 6° 29′ 24″ N. and
° 11′ 30″ W. It was known during the Dutch occupation
as Stabroek, and was established as the seat of government
of the combined colonies of Essequibo and Demerara (now…

— Archibald Graeme Bell
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O Sorrow, cruel fellowship,
O Priestess in the vaults of Death,
O sweet and bitter in a breath,
What whispers from thy lying lip?
"The stars," she whispers, "blindly run;
A web is wov'n across the sky;
From out waste places comes a cry,
And murmurs from the dying sun:
"And all the phantom, Nature, stands--
With all the music in her tone,
A…

— Lord Alfred Tennyson
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WHAT do they matter, our headlong hates, when we take the toll of our Dead?
Think ye our glory and gain will pay for the torrent of blood we have shed?
By the cheers of our Victory will the heart of the mother be comforted?

— George Herbert Clarke
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But when I wrote in the sand
A little unlegended name,
A human unhistoried name.
With a bitter cry and uplifted hand
You rose and over that famished land,
Fled away like a flame.

— John Cowper Powys
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"Mi vida como vampiro - Capítulos IX y ":🧛‍♂️

Entre chupetones, amigos que confraternizan con ron barato y el "tío bueno" de la oficina que te escribe en redes, la nueva vida de Pedro resulta más... https://fictograma.com/d/3887-mi-vida-como-vampiro-capitulos-ix-y-x

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¡Nuevo capítulo disponible! 📖

"Rusia de noche" - Capítulo 3
Un lunes gélido en Moscú, el metro atestado, encuentros fugaces y el peso de las decisiones pendientes…
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Nuestro escritor necesita de tu crítica literaria: Aquí tienes un tuit corto:

En la Mansión Ashcroft el silencio es más aterrador que los gritos. Capítulo 3 de Silent Threat ya está disponible.

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Atkinson, William Biddle (1832–1909)
William B. Atkinson, an obstetrician in Philadelphia and also one who gathered the lives of well-known American physicians into a volume of biography, was the son of Isaac S. and Mary R. Biddle Atkinson and was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania, June 21, 1832. His father's people were among the earliest settlers in…

— American Medical Biographies
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Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins #books #literature #dedication

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This book is dedicated to the Kendrick boys—Capt. John (deceased) and Billy (kicking); to Shazam, to tiny Terrie, and to the "fantastic foolybear" wherever she may be.

Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, who died OTD in 1882, wrote the Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg; he is considered to be the father of the national #literature of #Estonia https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/estonia/?s=mb #travel #history

"Mi vida como vampiro - Capítulos IX y ":🧛‍♂️

Entre chupetones, amigos que confraternizan con ron barato y el "tío bueno" de la oficina que te escribe en redes, la nueva vida de Pedro resulta más humana de lo que esperaba.
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