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En "El retrato de Dorian Gray, Cap 17": Té, porcelana y cinismo aristocrático en Selby Royal. Mientras Lord Henry despliega sus paradojas ante la duquesa de Monmouth, un repentino...
https://fictograma.com/d/2985-el-retrato-de-dorian-gray-capitulo-17
En "Siddhartha, Cap. 7": Riqueza, dados y placeres: Siddhartha se ha sumergido en el juego del Sansara, pero el lujo solo ha traído el vacío a su alma. Tras un sueño...
https://fictograma.com/d/2986-siddhartha-segunda-parte-capitulo-7-hermann-hesse
Mi niñez estuvo marcada por sucesos inquietantes. Siempre hubo una sombra observándome, creciendo conmigo entre pesadillas y locura. Creí que descubrir su identidad me liberaría…
https://fictograma.com/d/2988-las-tijeras
No siempre necesitas arreglar tu vida.
A veces solo necesitas respirar, bajar los hombros y sobrevivir a esta hora sin romperte.
El caos es externo. Tu centro sigue ahí.
https://fictograma.com/d/2989-capitulo-3-codigo-griscrisis-de-estres
Another surprise mention: The Acoma people. I had the pleasure of visiting their pueblo years ago, and it remains one of my loveliest memories.
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Well into book 3! The bishop is still very much alive. I'm enjoying this story; Cather has such a way with words and is very observant on human nature.
I started reading this because it was recommended to me by an author I met at a café, a locally run business. She was a huge fan of Cather and suggested this one when I asked for recommendations.
Among things, that encounter reminded me of the value of public spaces like this, where people can meet by chance, have enriching conversations, and leave refreshed and the better off mentally, emotionally, and spiritually (by which I mean as human beings relating to other human beings).
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Born this day: 05/23/1921 (d. 07/30/1975)
James Benjamin "Jimmy" Blish was an American science fiction writer.
He is best known for his Cities in Flight novels and his series of Star Trek novelizations written with his wife, J. A. Lawrence. "A Case of Conscience" (1959) won the Hugo Award.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blish
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Cather devotes a whole chapter to describing Acoma, and it's bringing back memories. She describes their church as follows:
"At the very edge of the mesa, overhanging the abyss so that its retaining wall was like a part of the cliff itself, was the old warlike church of Ácoma, with its two stone towers. Gaunt, grim, grey, its nave rising some seventy feet to a sagging, half-ruined roof, it was more like a fortress than a place of worship."
I don't know if this description was ever accurate (I suspect Cather did do her research), but the church I saw there was something lovely and brilliant, an open space with images of crops around the walls, IIRC. To me it was an image of life itself.
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Okay, I kind of see why Cather described the church at Acoma the way she did: It's a symbol of Euroamerican oppression of the people there. The building that I saw, by contrast, reflected the spirit of the Acoma people and culture, as our guide explained it to us, and they were very proud thereof. She (our guide) told us it was as much an expression of the historical Acoma religion as of Christianity.
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Magazine cover for the January 1957 issue of "Astounding Science Fiction," featuring cover art by H. R. Van Dongen for the novella "Get Out of My Sky" by James Blish.
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to me the failed city
https://subspacewagon.systems/to-me-the-failed-city/
Her stone horses of law and reclamation
https://subspacewagon.systems/her-stone-horses-of-law-and-reclamation/
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What Was I Dreaming?
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Arc of a series of 3 books/chapbooks
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Es ist seit Langem das erste Buch, das ich abgebrochen habe. Kaum eine der bisherigen Geschichten war spannend/gruselig, eine einzige war tatsächlich mal interessant. Aber der Rest...
Im letzten Drittel verlor ich das Interesse dann endgültig.
Das ist natürlich nur meine Meinung, und die ist bestimmt nicht so ausschlaggebend. Es wird andere geben, die das Buch gut finden - und das ist auch richtig so.
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"Book of Ballads" - Sharyn McCrumb (script) and Charles Vess (art). #GothicSpring #BookChatWeekly #AncientSky #Mythology #MythologySky #Folklore #FolkloreSky #Comics #ComicsSky #GraphicNovel #BookSky #Literature #LiteratureSky #Celtic #CelticSky #Scotland #Fairy #FairySky #Faerie #CharlesVess
"All hail, thou mighty Queen of Heaven!
For thy peer on Earth I never did see."
"Oh no, oh no, Thomas," she said,
"That name does not belong to me.
I am but the queen of fair Elfland,
Who am hither come to visit thee."
- "Thomas the Rhymer" (Scottish ballad)
🎨Sharyn McCrumb and Charles Vess
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"Though thou gets this, there is yet that which thou wilt not get. It is not possible to hunt the boar Trwyth without Gwyn ap Nudd, whom God has placed over all the devils in Annwn, lest they should destroy the present race."
- Culhwch & Olwen (Welsh Arthurian legend)
🎨 Anne-Marie Perks
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Why Beatrix Potter’s Stories Still Delight Generations
Defined by their colorful cast of characters and breathtaking illustrations, the storybooks of Beatrix Potter have brought joy to children around the world.
Currently reading Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop." I'm on chapter 3, and so far there is a disturbing lack of death. And since the main character is just called "bishop," there is also a disturbing lack of Arch.
#WillaCather #literature #DeathComesForTheArchbishop #ArchBTW
Chapter 4. Bishop is still very much alive.
At least cowboys are shooting up the night for kicks and giggles. Good to know Americans have always been Americans.
Book 2, chapter 2. An American apparently was planning to harm the bishop, but the latter got away in time, fleeing on a mule into the dark night. Seems like Death missed its chance.
NOBTHATCHER. A peruke-maker.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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To vex the world. Jonathan Swift’s Frustrated Humor
On the three-hundredth anniversary of Gulliver’s Travels, Swift’s satire of his own society is remarkably relevant.
by Henry Oliver
https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/to-vex-the-world-jonathan-swifts
Gulliver’s Travels available in several languages at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=+Gulliver%E2%80%99s+Travels
Avignon as Threat: How a Medieval Myth Became a Modern Weapon
For centuries, the Avignon Papacy has been portrayed as a period of corruption, weakness, and French domination over the medieval Church. But a modern political controversy involving the Pentagon and the Vatican has revealed how this powerful historical myth still shapes public perceptions today.
By Joëlle Rollo-Koster
https://www.medievalists.net/2026/05/avignon-papacy/
Avignon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=avignon
> "But in this particular case, you’re promoting your book. You’re promoting a thing that you wrestled with and won. You’re promoting a thing that dragged you to hell and you dragged back. You’re promoting a successful enterprise in human endeavor. And beyond that, you’re promoting the idea that this beautiful thing you made, these words you ordered, these ideas you successfully put to a page, will resonate with other human beings. You’re promoting your belief that you have made a thing that will fill others with joy, grief, and/or inspiration. You’re promoting the idea of human connection, which we need so badly right now."
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-be-a-carnival-barker
I tossed away 25 years of habit pumping out programming projects on the daily so I could knuckle-down to writing Nomad: Wanderer in the #Worldglass because the world is so compelling, so full of detail, and so well suited to the medium that I know it will give you something that is so much more rich in texture and humanity than the endless stream of attention-sapping sound-bites that makes up the majority of reading we do online nowadays.
There is literally no ulterior motive to the content of this book, unlike a social media feed where often the content -- no matter how positive and uplifting -- is secondary to the farming of views/clicks/ads/data, etc.
_Please_ consider giving it a brief read, it's free. You will know if it's for you from the first page; the setup of a desert world in a sand-glass the size of Earth is such a ripe environment that I dropped everything I could be doing to flesh it out for you.
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Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring by Bassem Youssef #books #literature #dedication