Un amant voit...
toute la nature comme une nouveauté inventée hier.

Stendhal, De l'amour

Photo: Mika Suutari

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Paysage nocturne : ciel bleu intense, sol sombre. Au centre, un arbre au tronc élancé et au feuillage dense. La pleine lune se trouve au-dessus de l'arbre. Photo : Mika Suutari.

Don Quixote Comes to Life at Laredo Center for the Arts #CaminArte #ArtExhibition #ArtsAndCulture #ArtsEducation #cervantes #CommunityArts #CulturalEducation #DonQuixote #DowntownLaredo #HistoricArt #laredo #LaredoArts #LaredoCenterForTheArts #LaredoTexas #literature #MiguelDeCervantes #StudentEducation #TexasArts #TexasBorderBusiness #TheQuestToDream https://texasborderbusiness.com/don-quixote-comes-to-life-at-laredo-center-for-the-arts/

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She's also a harbinger of grace, wisdom and truth, which all poets aspire to be.

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ADIEU, O soldier!
You of the rude campaigning, (which we shared,)
The rapid march, the life of the camp,
The hot contention of opposing fronts—the long manoeuver,
Red battles with their slaughter,—the stimulus—the strong, terrific game,
Spell of all brave and manly hearts—the trains of Time through you, and like of you,
all
fill’d,
With war, and war’s expression.

— Walt Whitman
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#epic #bookstodon #books #literature

Greece is the most easterly of the three southern peninsulas of Europe, extending into the Mediterranean. Its states or provinces are divided from each other by its mountain ranges and peaks, which have associated with them many very interesting and entertaining stories. The range on the north, which separates Greece from the continent of…

— The New Student's Reference Work
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#lit #bookstodon #books #literature

𝗪𝗮𝘆𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗿: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗴𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗼 𝗔𝘇𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗮 -

3-Word Review:

- Fragmented
- Bleak
- Relevant

Frictional Posture:

- What is deliberately unsaid in the narrative? What substance hides there?

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Small acts of resistance

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Photo showing a shelve of books (Goethe's diary) in a library. The first book in the row was put back upside down so that the spines do not align anymore.

https://text-bubbles.blogspot.com/2026/08/at-train-station.html

"It has been three years since I last set foot in a train station. I, the nomad, have taken root.
Naturally curious, I like to observe the characters who haunt certain public places. Now here, nothing has changed; although their faces are different, I find them all again..."

#90s #characters #conscripts #family #literature #lovers #people #station #student #studies #jlbouzou #study #trainstation #wildone #writing

Upon this word we han assented soone,
For, as it seemed, it was for to doone,
To enden in som vertuous sentence,
And for to yeve hym space and audience;
And bade oure Hoost he sholde to hym seye
That alle we to telle his tale hym preye.

— Geoffrey Chaucer
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#fable #bookstodon #books #literature

Gentle Writing Advice: How to Be a Writer Without Destroying Yourself by Chuck Wendig #books #literature #dedication

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This one's for the birds

Act IIIedit
Scene. The library, used as a sort of semi-office by
Starkweather at such times when he is in Washington. Door to
right; also, door to right rear. At left rear is an alcove,
without hangings, which is dark. To left are windows. To
left, near windows, a fiat-top desk, with desk-chair and
desk-telephone. Also, on desk, conspicuously, is a heavy…

— Jack London
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#theatre #bookstodon #books #literature

Joan Baez in her steps further from God

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"Throughout history there have been peasant rebellions which have followed always the same course. Blindly, the peasants sacked and destroyed, and when members of the "upper classes" fell into their hands, they killed ruthlessly and cruelly, for never in their lives had they been taught gentleness and mercy by those now in their power."

#literature

When love is faulted and false

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Where she sings so lovely like pale rafted tines

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The journey, full of hardships, comes to an end.
#writing #story #storytelling #literature #fiction #history

https://www.vasopapa.com/rooted-destiny-part-4/

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Made with AI.

NO more the flow'ry scenes of pleasure rife,
Nor charming prospects greet the mental eyes,
No more with joy we view that lovely face
Smiling, disportive, flush'd with ev'ry grace.
The tear of sorrow flows from ev'ry eye,
Groans answer groans, and sighs to sighs reply;
What sudden pangs shot thro' each aching heart,
When, Death, thy messenger…

— Phillis Wheatley
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#love #melancholy #gothic #bookstodon #books #literature

THE PROLOGUEedit
'Ho!' quod the knight, 'good sir, na-more of this:
That ye han seyd is right y-nough, y-wis,
And mochel more; for litel hevinesse
Is right y-nough to mochel folk, I gesse.
I seye for me, it is a greet disese
Wher-as men han ben in greet welthe and ese,
To heren of hir sodeyn fal, allas!

— Geoffrey Chaucer
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enumeration of the various elements of value which determine the fluctuations in the prices of foreign bills

— George Goschen
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To Begin the World Again

Thomas Paine, America’s Leveller

by Brooke Allen

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-fading-promise-of-higher-education/articles/to-begin-the-world-again

Common Sense by Thomas Paine at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/147

#books #literature

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Title page of Common Sense. It outlines the four subjects covered: the origin of government, monarchy and hereditary succession, the state of American affairs, and America's ability for independence — with a handwritten owner's name ("W. Hamilton") inscribed at the top.

Nuevo capítulo de *Rusia de noche* 📖
Moscú de madrugada, ofertas demasiado perfectas y secretos que no dejan dormir.

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NECK STAMPER. The boy who collects the pots belonging to an alehouse, sent out with beer to private houses.

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): NECK STAMPER. The boy who collects the pots belonging to an alehouse, sent out with beer to private houses. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

"Had Hannibal had a government behind him that knew how to exploit victories – had he been born a Roman, for instance – he might have conquered the world."

#literature

Swiftly walk o'er the western wave,
Spirit of Night!
Out of the misty eastern cave,
Where, all the long and lone daylight,
Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear,
'Which make thee terrible and dear,--
Swift be thy flight!

— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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#mystic #bookstodon #books #literature

Incredible Alexander Pope passage; I think about “too wise for pride, too good for power” all the time:

"You, that too wise for pride, too good for power,
Enjoy the glory to be great no more,
And carrying with you all the world can boast,
To all the world illustriously are lost!"

#poem #poetry #literature

IN WHICH DR. TOOLE AND MR. LOWE MAKE A VISIT AT THE MILLS, AND RECOGNISE
SOMETHING REMARKABLE WHILE THERE.
After church, Dr. Toole walking up to the Mills, to pay an afternoon
visit to poor little Mrs. Nutter, was overtaken by Mr. Lowe, the
magistrate who brought his tall, iron-gray hunter to a walk as he
reached him.
'Any tidings of Nutter?' asked he, after they…

— Sheridan Le Fanu
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#lit #bookstodon #books #literature

Bog Queen by Anna North #books #literature #dedication

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For the moss

ADIEU! a heart-warm fond adieu;
Dear brothers of the mystic tie!
Ye favourèd, enlighten’d few,
Companions of my social joy;
Tho’ I to foreign lands must hie,
Pursuing Fortune’s slidd’ry ba’;
With melting heart, and brimful eye,
I’ll mind you still, tho’ far awa.

— Robert Burns
https://palimpseste.vercel.app/#text/70c6c901-95de-4df6-b48e-14038a0f8e53
#love #bookstodon #books #literature

The king had just awakened from his midday sleep, for it was summer, and everyone rose early and rested from twelve to three, as they do in hot countries. He had dressed himself in cool white clothes, and was passing through the hall on his way to the council chamber, when a number of young nobles suddenly
appeared before him, and one amongst them stopped forward and…

— Andrew Lang
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#dream #bookstodon #books #literature

Poemas de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga.
#literature #poetry #explorepage
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#amazonkindle #gothicstyle #poetry #poemas #verso #lirica #gothicfashion #literature #poetry

Poemas de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga.
#literature #poetry #explorepage
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#amazon
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#literatura
#declamacion
#libros
#literature
#tales
#stories
#gothic
#goticas
#gotica

Looking forward to a new season? We’ve got new books out this autumn! Chilling, daring, and enchanting reads await! #books #horror #fantasy #surrealism #literature

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Autumn Preview October 13 GUTTERSPACE by Justine Norton-Kertson PREORDER NOW! Cosmic Horror / Comics Themes November 10 THE HYENA by David Quantick Surrealist Alternate History Cover & Preorders Soon! December 8 WHEN THE FOREST CALLS by Cassandra Newbould Dark Woodland Fairytale Cover & Preorders Soon! STARSANDSABERS.COM/BOOKS Stars and Sabers Publishing Logo

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Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary
Of lofty contemplation left to Time
By buried centuries of pomp and power!
At length--at length--after so many days
Of weary pilgrimage and burning thirst,
(Thirst for the springs of lore that in thee lie,)
I kneel, an altered and an humble man,
Amid thy shadows, and so drink within
My very soul thy grandeur,…

— Edgar Allan Poe
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#love #epic #classics #bookstodon #books #literature

Behold the merry words of the Host to the Shipman and to the Lady Prioress.

— Geoffrey Chaucer
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#lit #bookstodon #books #literature

To the Critic

Methinks I see some crooked mimic jeer,
And tax my Muse with this fantastic grace,
Turning my papers asks, "What have we here?"
Making withal some filthy antic face.
I fear no censure, nor what thou canst say,
Nor shall my spirit one jot of vigor lose;
Think'st thou my wit shall keep the pack-horse way
That every dudgen low invention…

— Michael Drayton
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#mystic #humor #bookstodon #books #literature

Executive Order 11130 of November 29, 1963
Appointing a Commission to Report Upon the Assassination of PresidentJohnF.Kennedy

— Gerald R. Ford
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🚀 The Man Who Saw Humanity From Two Billion Years Away
By: #MatthewDeAbaitua
at @themitpress
Olaf Stapledon’s 'Last and First Men' imagines humanity’s rise, ruin, and strange rebirth on a mythic scale.
#OlafStapleton #LastAndFirstMen #Literature

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-man-who-saw-humanity-from-two-billion-years-away/

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China, with its ancient civilisation, its copious and in many respects remarkable literature, and a history which goes back for more than two thousand years, has for many centuries exercised a commanding influence over all its neighbours. What Greece and Rome have been to Europe, China has been to the nations of the far East. Japan, in particular, is very…

— William George Aston
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#classics #bookstodon #books #literature

Nudillos – Franco_Ratti

Un relato intenso sobre la violencia cotidiana, la repetición del dolor y el valor de quien decide plantarse.
«A la salud del beneplácito subterráneo, brindo por mis nudillos y el valor.»
https://fictograma.com/d/3873-nudillos

#books #literature #writing

Mi vida como vampiro. Capítulos VII y VIII: Una noche de discoteca, tequila que vuelve a salir, super-velocidad en la Rosaleda y el intento de contarle a un amigo que te has convertido en vampiro…
https://fictograma.com/d/3875-mi-vida-como-vampiro-capitulos-vii-y-viii

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¿Qué secretos oculta la noche rusa?
Capítulo 1 de Rusia de Noche: un teniente del ejército, un agente del FSB y una curiosa oferta que lo cambia todo… ❄️📷
https://fictograma.com/d/3878-rusia-de-noche-capitulo-1

#books #literature #writing

Mañana helada, omelettes y una conversación que se pone coqueta…
Capítulo 28 de Restos de Almas Rotas: Aiden y Erina despiertan juntos y el día arranca con más química de la esperada 🍳📷
https://fictograma.com/d/3879-restos-de-almas-rotas-capitulo-28

#books #literature #writing

Nuevo capítulo de *Rusia de noche* 📖
Moscú de madrugada, ofertas demasiado perfectas y secretos que no dejan dormir.

https://fictograma.com/d/3880-rusia-de-noche-capitulo-2

#books #literature #writing

"Takasago"
This is one of the pieces attributed to Motokiyo, who died in 1455, but, as already suggested, he was probably only the director or manager of the theatre where it was produced. It is the best known, and is considered the finest of all the Nō. Its popularity was testified to no longer ago than last year (1897) by the launching, from the yard of…

— William George Aston
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Dirtbag Queen: A Memoir of My Mother by Andy Corren #books #literature #dedication

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For Renay Mandel Corren 1937-2021 She broke me. Then she bought it. Thanks, Mom.

English physician and author John William Polidori, who died OTD in 1821, created the vampire genre of fantasy fiction https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/athens-to-paris/gura-humorului-sighisoara.html?s=mb #travel #Romania #literature