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

En "Siddhartha, Parte II, Cap. 8": Éste cayó al borde del río creyéndose vacío, pero fue el “Om” quien lo despertó de la muerte interior. A veces hay que perderlo todo...
fictograma.com/d/2995-siddhart

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

    En "El retrato de Dorian Gray, Cap. 18": Un disparo en el bosque.
    Un hombre muerto.
    Dorian Gray, pálido, cree que es su fin… Hasta que ve el rostro del cadáver...
    fictograma.com/d/2994-el-retra

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

      PS: Billy Kay’s 5-part radio series, “Don Roberto”, which he made for the BBC in 1999 – practically the only significant piece of media attention RBCG has received in living memory – is available to listen to on YouTube:

      youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgI

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

        PPS: a small selection of RB Cunninghame Graham’s books – including THIRTEEN STORIES, from which “A Hegira”, “The Goldfish”, & “Beattock for Moffat” are extracted – are available free from @gutenberg_org

        gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/644

          [?]Book dedications bot » 🤖 🌐
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          In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain by Tom Vitale

          To my loving family, for their unwavering support and steadfast belief I was worth the effort, despite all evidence to the contrary

          Alt...To my loving family, for their unwavering support and steadfast belief I was worth the effort, despite all evidence to the contrary

            [?]Bevan Thomas » 🌐
            @bevanthomas.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

              [?]Bevan Thomas » 🌐
              @bevanthomas@mstdn.ca

              "A sad tale's best for winter: I have one
              Of sprites and goblins."
              - William Shakespeare, "A Winter's Tale" (Act 2, Scene 1)

              Goblins from the movie "Labyrinth"

              Alt...Goblins from the movie "Labyrinth"

                [?]Dani Iduna 🖌️🫟🧶🪄🍄🪾 » 🌐
                @DaniIduna@troet.cafe

                Mit allem, was man über dieses tolle Land wissen muss. Sogar die einen oder anderen Ecken, die man fern der Touristenmeile finden kann, werden erwähnt.
                So muss das sein. Aber es dreht sich auch um Essen und Trinken, und weitere Besonderheiten.
                Es war jedenfalls eine Freude, das hier zu lesen.
                Wer nach Italien reisen will, sollte sich das hier mal anschauen!

                Love Italy by Nicoletta de Rossi

                Alt...Love Italy by Nicoletta de Rossi

                  [?]Walt » 🌐
                  @astralcomputing@bookstodon.com

                  Born this day: 05/24/1963
                  Michael Chabon is an American SciFi novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer. The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007) won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards.

                  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_


                  @books @scifi @Scifiart @sciencefiction

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                  Art by Will Staehle

                  Book cover for 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union' by Michael Chabon, with cover art and jacket design credited to Will Staehle. The composition is highly symmetrical, balancing intricate graphic design elements with stylized retro typography that evokes a classic 1940s pulp detective novel, integrated with traditional Jewish iconography and indigenous Pacific Northwest Tlingit and Haida artistic motifs. The dominant color palette is striking and minimalist, composed of flat cream, solid black, and sharp red accents, establishing a stark, dramatic, and noir-inflected mood. At the upper portion of the layout, the book title 'THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION' is displayed in bold, blocky, and custom-lettered crimson-red capital letters, positioned squarely within a black ornamental border. Directly below the title, the author's name 'MICHAEL CHABON' appears in clean, high-contrast black sans-serif lettering. The central visual focus features a bold graphic illustration depicting a stylized black-and-white hand emerging from a tailored suit sleeve to firmly grip a revolver, with a subtle wisp of white gun smoke curling upward against a solid background. Surrounding this central figure are intricate geometric borders, concentric circles, and stylized wing-like patterns that mirror the formal abstraction of Alaskan tribal art forms. A small red Star of David symbol is nested symmetrically at the bottom center of the framing layout.

                  Alt...Book cover for 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union' by Michael Chabon, with cover art and jacket design credited to Will Staehle. The composition is highly symmetrical, balancing intricate graphic design elements with stylized retro typography that evokes a classic 1940s pulp detective novel, integrated with traditional Jewish iconography and indigenous Pacific Northwest Tlingit and Haida artistic motifs. The dominant color palette is striking and minimalist, composed of flat cream, solid black, and sharp red accents, establishing a stark, dramatic, and noir-inflected mood. At the upper portion of the layout, the book title 'THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION' is displayed in bold, blocky, and custom-lettered crimson-red capital letters, positioned squarely within a black ornamental border. Directly below the title, the author's name 'MICHAEL CHABON' appears in clean, high-contrast black sans-serif lettering. The central visual focus features a bold graphic illustration depicting a stylized black-and-white hand emerging from a tailored suit sleeve to firmly grip a revolver, with a subtle wisp of white gun smoke curling upward against a solid background. Surrounding this central figure are intricate geometric borders, concentric circles, and stylized wing-like patterns that mirror the formal abstraction of Alaskan tribal art forms. A small red Star of David symbol is nested symmetrically at the bottom center of the framing layout.

                    [?]RJT » 🌐
                    @many@subconscioussignature.earth

                    to me the failed city
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                    Her stone horses of law and reclamation
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                      [?]RJT » 🌐
                      @many@subconscioussignature.earth

                      Arc of a series of 3 books/chapbooks

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

                        RBCG’s wife, Gabriela de la Balmondière, was equally exotic & romantic. Born in Chile, her father – French nobleman Francisco Jose de la Balmondière – & his elegant Spanish wife were both killed when Gabriela was 12. She grew up with an aunt in Paris.

                        📷 Gabriela de la Balmondière

                        9/18

                        A sepia photograph of a young woman in profile, wearing late-nineteenth-century clothes. Her hair is worn up, above her ears, giving her a slightly boyish look. The photo is small, oval, and surrounded by a white frame; the frame is slightly cracked in two places.

                        Alt...A sepia photograph of a young woman in profile, wearing late-nineteenth-century clothes. Her hair is worn up, above her ears, giving her a slightly boyish look. The photo is small, oval, and surrounded by a white frame; the frame is slightly cracked in two places.

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

                          RBCG & Gabriela met in Paris when he was 26 & she was only 17. They were married just 6 weeks later. They travelled to the USA & settled into a Bohemian life in Mexico, where RBCG taught fencing & Gabriela taught French & guitar.

                          10/18

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

                            They returned to Scotland where Gabriela won the admiration of her husband’s society friends – Wilde, Yeats, Engels, & others – with her “slight accent, neither French nor Spanish, but most attractive and charming, as foreign accents sometimes can be, especially with ladies.”

                            11/18

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

                              Gabriela was a talented writer herself. Emilia Pardo Bazán introduced Gabriela’s work to Spanish literary journals, & Gabriela translated Bazán’s novel El destripador de antaño into English. She also wrote a highly regarded 3-volume biography of St Teresa of Avila.

                              12/18

                              Title page from a book: SANTA TERESA BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF HER LIFE AND TIMES TOGETHER WITH SOME PAGES FROM THE HISTORY OF THE LAST GREAT REFORM IN THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS BY GABRIELA CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM

                              Alt...Title page from a book: SANTA TERESA BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF HER LIFE AND TIMES TOGETHER WITH SOME PAGES FROM THE HISTORY OF THE LAST GREAT REFORM IN THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS BY GABRIELA CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM

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

                                In 1906, when Gabriela died, tragically young, she was buried on the island of Inchmahome in the Lake of Menteith. RBCG dug her grave himself. He never remarried. When he died, 30 years later, he was buried alongside her

                                13/18

                                blog.historicenvironment.scot/

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

                                  Then, in 1985, papers were discovered by the family. “Gabriela” had not been born in Chile to European nobility: her real name was Carrie Horsfall, from Masham in Yorkshire, who ran away to become an actress – which might explain why her exotic accent was so hard to pin down.

                                  14/18

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

                                    Clearly, Carrie was an accomplished thespian. She, and Robert – & Carrie’s sisters, who were in on the secret – maintained the deception throughout her life & after, under an ever-present shadow of possible scandal & ruin.

                                    15/18

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

                                      Gabriela’s – Carrie’s – incredible career inspired the historian & novelist Clare Clark, whose novel BEAUTIFUL LIES is a (very lightly) fictionalised version of her life. But can fiction beat reality?

                                      16/18

                                      express.co.uk/news/uk/400682/T

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

                                        Our book EMPIRES & REVOLUTIONS: Cunninghame Graham & His Contemporaries contains essays exploring ideas of revolution, emancipation, equality, & liberty in the works of RBCG & other Scottish writers of the period – in print & online via Project MUSE

                                        17/18

                                        asls.org.uk/publications/books

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

                                          You’ve made it to the end! Have a FREE book! 3 short stories by Cunninghame Graham: “A Hegira”, “The Goldfish”, & “Beattock for Moffat”. Set in 🇲🇽 Mexico, 🇲🇦 Morocco, & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland, they are about journeys & frontiers, & about tenacity, loss, & death.

                                          18/18

                                          asls.org.uk/publications/books

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

                                            WAITS. Musicians of the lower order, who in most towns play under the windows of the inhabitants at midnight, a short time before Christmas, for which they collect a christmas-box. Said to derive their name from being always in waiting to celebrate weddings and other events.

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

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                                            @histodons

                                            Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): WAITS. Musicians of the lower order, who in most towns play under the windows of the inhabitants at midnight, a short time before Christmas, for which they collect a christmas-box. Said to derive their name from being always in waiting to celebrate weddings and other events. 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): WAITS. Musicians of the lower order, who in most towns play under the windows of the inhabitants at midnight, a short time before Christmas, for which they collect a christmas-box. Said to derive their name from being always in waiting to celebrate weddings and other events. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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

                                              Sit down & strap in: it’s going to be a long, wild Scottish literature 🧵…

                                              What 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotsman was caught up in a South American civil war before he was 20? Wrote a book that inspired an Oscar-winning film? Met a runaway teenager in Paris & married her against the wishes of his family? Lost his ranch to raiding Apaches?

                                              1/18

                                              A still from THE MISSION (1986). Robert De Niro, with a black beard and swept-back dark hair, stands in a haze of smoke in a jungle scene. He is dressed in a black shirt, and is holding a rapier out in front of him in his right hand. His left is on his hip, in a fencer's fighting stance. He looks unsmilingly along the length of his sword to whatever faces him.

                                              Alt...A still from THE MISSION (1986). Robert De Niro, with a black beard and swept-back dark hair, stands in a haze of smoke in a jungle scene. He is dressed in a black shirt, and is holding a rapier out in front of him in his right hand. His left is on his hip, in a fencer's fighting stance. He looks unsmilingly along the length of his sword to whatever faces him.

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

                                                Went into Parliament as a Liberal MP & came out as a Socialist? Assaulted a policeman in defence of free speech & was sent to prison? Travelled in disguise in 🇲🇦 Morocco trying to reach a forbidden city?

                                                2/18

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

                                                  Helped found both the Scottish Labour Party AND the SNP? Was a ferocious critic of imperialism, racism & cruelty to any human or animal? Bought his favourite horse – an Argentine mustang – from the Glasgow Tramway Company and rode it for twenty years?

                                                  3/18

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

                                                    Wrote nearly thirty books, including 200 short stories & sketches? Knew nearly all the great writers & artists of his day? Had a funeral attended by the President of a republic & the two most famous horses in the world?

                                                    4/18

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

                                                      Is buried in a grave beside his wife on a small lake-island not far from Glasgow? Has, strangely, been nearly totally ignored, even almost forgotten, as a personality & politician & writer by recent generations?

                                                      5/18

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

                                                        Ladies & gentlemen, please allow me to introduce Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852–1936). Traveller, adventurer, politician, Scottish laird, American rancher, superb horseman, writer of essays, polemic, history, biography, & fiction, he was born , 24 May.

                                                        6/18

                                                        thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/05/a-

                                                        "'Don Roberto': Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham on Pampa", signed, inscribed and dated 'J Lavery/1901/To R.B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM ESQR.' (lower right), oil on canvas. Painted against an unresolved buff-coloured background with a wavering, distant horizon, a bearded man, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a colourful yellow poncho with red and blue details, sits confidently astride a lean black horse. Tall, dry yellow grasses are sketched around the horse's legs.

                                                        Alt..."'Don Roberto': Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham on Pampa", signed, inscribed and dated 'J Lavery/1901/To R.B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM ESQR.' (lower right), oil on canvas. Painted against an unresolved buff-coloured background with a wavering, distant horizon, a bearded man, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a colourful yellow poncho with red and blue details, sits confidently astride a lean black horse. Tall, dry yellow grasses are sketched around the horse's legs.

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

                                                          “An impenitent & unashamed dandy” – from Joseph Conrad’s Letters to R.B. Cunninghame Graham, ed. C.T. Watts (Cambridge University Press, 2011), quoting George Bernard Shaw

                                                          7/18

                                                          He is, I regret to add, an impenitent and unashamed dandy: such boots, such a hat, would have dazzled D’Orsay himself. With that hat he once saluted me in Regent St. when I was walking with my mother. Her interest was instantly kindled; and the following conversation ensued. ‘Who is that?’ ‘Cunninghame Graham.” ‘Nonsense! Cunninghame Graham is one of your Socialists: that man is a gentleman.” This is the punishment of vanity

                                                          Alt...He is, I regret to add, an impenitent and unashamed dandy: such boots, such a hat, would have dazzled D’Orsay himself. With that hat he once saluted me in Regent St. when I was walking with my mother. Her interest was instantly kindled; and the following conversation ensued. ‘Who is that?’ ‘Cunninghame Graham.” ‘Nonsense! Cunninghame Graham is one of your Socialists: that man is a gentleman.” This is the punishment of vanity

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

                                                            “You ought, Mr Graham, to be the first president of a British Republic.” “I ought, madam, if I had my rights,” he answered sardonically, “to be the king of this country. And what a three weeks that would be!”

                                                            —Ford Madox Ford, RETURN TO YESTERDAY

                                                            8/18

                                                            Portrait of Robert Bontine Cunningham Graham, Sir John Lavery. Oil on canvas, 1893. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. A full-length portrait of a man with dark curly hair, curled moustaches, and a pointed beard. He is dressed in brown, with a long overcoat and shiny knee-high leather riding boots. A reddish-pink scarf, loosely tied around his neck, provides a splash of colour. He holds a cane in his right hand, with his left held behind his back.

                                                            Alt...Portrait of Robert Bontine Cunningham Graham, Sir John Lavery. Oil on canvas, 1893. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. A full-length portrait of a man with dark curly hair, curled moustaches, and a pointed beard. He is dressed in brown, with a long overcoat and shiny knee-high leather riding boots. A reddish-pink scarf, loosely tied around his neck, provides a splash of colour. He holds a cane in his right hand, with his left held behind his back.

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                                                              Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen

                                                              For those who make shapes from every cloud

                                                              Alt...For those who make shapes from every cloud

                                                                [?]Revista Almiar » 🌐
                                                                @margencero@mastodon.social

                                                                ☁️ «El cielo descalzo», poemas por Raquel Gavilán Párraga
                                                                👉 margencero.es/almiar/cielo-des
                                                                ⌚ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 7 min
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                                                                ☁️ «El cielo descalzo», poemas por Raquel Gavilán Párraga 👉 https://margencero.es/almiar/cielo-descalzo-raquel-gavilan/ ⌚ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 7 min

                                                                Alt...☁️ «El cielo descalzo», poemas por Raquel Gavilán Párraga 👉 https://margencero.es/almiar/cielo-descalzo-raquel-gavilan/ ⌚ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 7 min

                                                                [?]Project Gutenberg » 🌐
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                                                                What is missing from the Guardian’s 100 best novels list

                                                                Readers share their reflections on the best works of fiction in English, and ask whether popularity or lightheartedness disqualified books from consideration

                                                                theguardian.com/books/2026/may

                                                                Our Top 100 EBooks last 30 days can be downloaded at PG:
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                                                                Steinbeck in 1939 McFadden Publications, Inc.; no photographer credited; photo likely the work of Sonya Noskowiak, as Steinbeck is wearing the same clothes from her 1935 studio session that produced the work shown here: https://www.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2006.74 - Photoplay, November 1939 (page 22). A black-and-white portrait photograph of Steinbeck with dark, wavy hair, a trimmed mustache, and light stubble. He gazes pensively to the left, wearing a dark crew-neck shirt under a light jacket. The background is a plain, neutral grey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#/media/File:John_Steinbeck_1939_(cropped).jpg

                                                                Alt...Steinbeck in 1939 McFadden Publications, Inc.; no photographer credited; photo likely the work of Sonya Noskowiak, as Steinbeck is wearing the same clothes from her 1935 studio session that produced the work shown here: https://www.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2006.74 - Photoplay, November 1939 (page 22). A black-and-white portrait photograph of Steinbeck with dark, wavy hair, a trimmed mustache, and light stubble. He gazes pensively to the left, wearing a dark crew-neck shirt under a light jacket. The background is a plain, neutral grey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck#/media/File:John_Steinbeck_1939_(cropped).jpg

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                                                                    [?]Revista Almiar » 🌐
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                                                                    ☁️ «El cielo descalzo», poemas por Raquel Gavilán Párraga
                                                                    👉 https://margencero.es/almiar/cielo-descalzo-raquel-gavilan/
                                                                    ⌚ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 7 min
                                                                    📌 #poesía #margencero #revistaalmiar #Escritores #Poetas #revistas #poemas #literatura #almiar #lecturas #lecturasrecomendadas #books #writing #literature #humanities

                                                                    ☁️ «El cielo descalzo», poemas por Raquel Gavilán Párraga 👉 https://margencero.es/almiar/cielo-descalzo-raquel-gavilan/ ⌚ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 7 min

                                                                    Alt...☁️ «El cielo descalzo», poemas por Raquel Gavilán Párraga 👉 https://margencero.es/almiar/cielo-descalzo-raquel-gavilan/ ⌚ Tiempo aprox. de lectura: 7 min

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                                                                      Drafting Greatness, Volumes I-II

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