Nothing can be more characteristic than the turbulent pretensions to meekness and simplicity in this address. Again, the versatility and adroitness of Richard is admirably described in the following ironical conversation with Brakenbury:—

— William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
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names, administrations, and measurements
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Docent Finches in Appalachia Drinking Berries
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The hypocritical ascetics will pass away from the womb of this existence, though the source itself may have been muddy.

But when your beloved comes to your side, do not be ashamed of what lives within you. Speak with heart and soul.

This desire is no stranger to you; it is your breath, your very life. Until I may drink you, this body remains a cage.

I tell reason: the hour of desire came, and passed.

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The hypocritical ascetics will pass away from the womb of this existence, though the source itself may have been muddy.

But when your beloved comes to your side, do not be ashamed of what lives within you. Speak with heart and soul.

This desire is no stranger to you; it is your breath, your very life. Until I may drink you, this body remains a cage.

I tell reason: the hour of desire came, and passed.

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Trains Different from Digestive Tracts

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But desire answers:

Remember the one whose truth raised the gallows high—whose crime was to make the hidden visible.

Today, he has been acquitted.

— Reza

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Uncles in Texas singing babies to sleep with “The Freed Pig”

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"In memory yet green, in joy still felt, The scenes of life rise sharply into view. We triumph; Life’s disasters are undealt, And while all else is old, the world is new."

#literature

In the dust where Abraham lives
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28 years
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The Ancients by John Larison #books #literature #dedication

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For the matrilineal ancestors of Evelyn Aretsinger and Ruth Diamond, and for all those who will come after

How Dante & the Tuscan Vernacular Gave Birth to the Italian Language

Dante’s decision to write his 14th-century "The Divine Comedy" in Florentine vernacular, not in Latin, shaped the Italian language spoken by 60 million people today.

by Maria-Anita Ronchini

https://www.thecollector.com/dante-tuscan-vernacular-italian-language/

Books by Dante Alighieri at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/507

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Front page first edition Vocabolario della Crusca, Crusca's dictionary 1612. This is a view of the title page — the "Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca", published "In Venezia MDCXII" (Venice, 1612) by Giovanni Alberti ("Appresso Giouanni Alberti"). The Accademia della Crusca's emblem shows a flour sifter/mill with a goat's head below and the motto banner reading "Il più bel fior ne coglie" ("it gathers the most beautiful flower"), a phrase drawn from Petrarch.

"I simply don't think it is reasonable to use IQ tests to produce results of questionable value, which may then serve to justify racists in their own minds and to help bring about the kinds of tragedies we have already witnessed earlier in this century."

#literature

Me acordé porque esto fue el 1 de septiembre de 2022. Cómo pasa el tiempo.

Ese día me llevaron a Zuera por 300€ de multa impagada (alcoholemia + peineta). Pensé que era broma… hasta los grilletes.
https://fictograma.com/d/3923-penal-numero-1

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Llamé a mi madre desde la cabina de la cárcel:
—Estoy en la cárcel.
—¡Ya sabía yo! ¡Tantas horas y este no viene! ¡Entre todos me vais a matar a disgustos!

El contador corría. Bienvenido al patio de las farolas naranjas.
https://fictograma.com/d/3925-penal-numero-2

#books #literature #writing

CAPÍTULO 36: Pecho Caliente

Kusa pelea con Soka en la biblioteca, los encierran… y resulta que era un sueño.
Mientras, Rikan llora frente a Rumia: “Mark te ama”.
El taller avanza. 11 días.
Y aparece la flor morada.
https://fictograma.com/d/3924-oddysey

#books #literature #writing

Poemas de Rolando Enrique Rosales Murga.
#literature #poetry #explorepage
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Mi vida como vampiro - Cap. XIX–XX: Superpoderes:
P.J. baja al metro bailando, sin ansias de morder. Usa su nueva vista (y un empujón mental) para librar a Claudia de la acosadora.
https://fictograma.com/d/3927-mi-vida-como-vampiro-capitulos-xix-y-xx

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Capítulo 9: La fachada de la perdición
Stephanie despierta… y empieza a ver lo que hay detrás de la máscara.
Matthew Sterling no es quien parece.

https://fictograma.com/d/3926-el-perihelio-de-las-almas-capitulo-9-la-fachada-de-la-perdicion

#books #literature #writing

CUSTARD CAP. The cap worn by the sword-bearer of the city of London, made hollow at the top like a custard.

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

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Behind the Flying Saucer by Frank Scully #books #literature #dedication

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Dedicated to The Scully Circus, our trained fleas from heaven— Skip, Syl, Pat, Non, and Mike— and may they someday fly in one

Freezing Point, by Anders Bodelsen

Freezing Point, by Anders Bodelsen was first published in 1969 in Danish with the title Frysepunktet and then in English in 1971. I think it was inspired by the case of Professor James Bedford who, died in 1967 but whose body was medically frozen in the hope he could be revived at some future date. Freezing point is a essentially a work of dystopian science fiction, a genre which doesn’t always last very well but this one was reissued in 2025 because the theme of using cryogenics to avoid death has stayed with us. The book explores some of the deep questions about ageing, death and what life might be like if it went on forever.

The story is centred on a character named Bruno who is a magazine editor. It begins in 1973 when Bruno discovers that he has an incurable cancer. Just after receiving the news he meets a young ballerina, Jenny, and they have an affair. He is offered the chance to be one of the first to be frozen down, the idea being that he would be thawed out again when a cure for his illness is found. He agrees to the procedure and is put to sleep, waking in 1995. He has not physically aged, but the society he wakes up in has changed dramatically. Medical cryogenics is now ubiquitous, and there is a lucrative market in human organs. Doctors effectively rule society, which has become divided between those who opt for “all-life”, which means something approaching immortality, and those who choose “now-life”, where they can live an affluent life as mortals by mortgaging their vital organs. The stability of this society is under constant threat from imbalance of supply and demand. Its regime has become repressive, engaging in mass surveillance and control of access to books and magazines.

In 1995 Bruno finds out that Jenny has been frozen down after suffering a spinal injury that meant she could no longer dance. He also finds out that she had a son, also called Bruno, from their encounter. After struggling to readjust he pleads to be frozen down again so that he can be reunited with Jenny when a cure for her spine is available.

The last part of the book is set in 2022. It is clear that the Brave New World is now falling apart. Repeated freezings and thawings are having drastic side effects on those affected. Jenny’s new spine isn’t working as it was supposed to and even the doctors are showing signs of mental illness, constantly repeating themselves, amid frequent power cuts. In the midst of all this Bruno just wants to die. But will that be allowed?

It’s a bit corny to describe this book as a “chiller” but that’s exactly what it is. The story is told in a dry, impassive voice which makes it all the more bleak, though with enough dark humour for it to qualify as a black comedy.

P.S. Anders Bodelsen passed away in 2021.

Me acordé porque esto fue el 1 de septiembre de 2022. Cómo pasa el tiempo.

Ese día me llevaron a Zuera por 300€ de multa impagada (alcoholemia + peineta). Pensé que era broma… hasta los grilletes.
https://fictograma.com/d/3923-penal-numero-1

#books #literature #writing

Llamé a mi madre desde la cabina de la cárcel:
—Estoy en la cárcel.
—¡Ya sabía yo! ¡Tantas horas y este no viene! ¡Entre todos me vais a matar a disgustos!

El contador corría. Bienvenido al patio de las farolas naranjas.
https://fictograma.com/d/3925-penal-numero-2

#books #literature #writing

CAPÍTULO 36: Pecho Caliente

Kusa pelea con Soka en la biblioteca, los encierran… y resulta que era un sueño.
Mientras, Rikan llora frente a Rumia: “Mark te ama”.
El taller avanza. 11 días.
Y aparece la flor morada.
https://fictograma.com/d/3924-oddysey

#books #literature #writing

Capítulo 9: La fachada de la perdición
Stephanie despierta… y empieza a ver lo que hay detrás de la máscara.
Matthew Sterling no es quien parece.

https://fictograma.com/d/3926-el-perihelio-de-las-almas-capitulo-9-la-fachada-de-la-perdicion

#books #literature #writing

"Thou seist ful sooth," quod Roger, "by my fey;
But `sooth pley quaad pley,' as the Flemyng seith.
And therfore, Herry Bailly, by thy feith,
Be thou nat wrooth, er we departen heer,
Though that my tale be of an hostileer.
But nathelees I wol nat telle it yit,
But er we parte, ywis, thou shalt be quit."
And ther-with-al he lough and made…

— Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Empire of Civil Society: A Critique of the Realist Theory of International Relations by Justin Rosenberg #books #literature #dedication

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To the memory of my mother, Patricia Rosenberg (1925-1993), who turned many an orthodoxy on its head in her pursuit of human understanding

The blind man did not hate me.
I saw him through the window,
through the rippling circle my own
hot breath had melted
in the spiky flowers of the frost…

—Liz Lochhead, “2. What the Creature Said”, from DREAMING FRANKENSTEIN & Collected Poems 1967–1984 (Birlinn, 2011)

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Liz Lochhead from Dreaming Frankenstein 2. What the Creature Said The blind man did not hate me. I saw him through the window, through the rippling circle my own hot breath had melted in the spiky flowers of the frost. I was exhausted, imagine it. Midwinter. Mountains. Forest. Dragging my bad leg over iron ground, impossible passes, pained by that fleshwound where that villager's silver bullet grazed me. There he was, bent above the hot soup, supping his solitude from a bone spoon. And when my single rap at the glass spun him full face towards me, mild as a cat, my heart stopped but oh he did not flinch Then I saw his milky eyes stared right through me, unblinking, and he fumbled oddly forward to meet me at the latch. I lifted it and entered, sure that I found a friend.

“Can a man ‘make’ a feminist? It is the final riddle of a mesmerising mind game in which not even the heroine, and certainly not the author, can be trusted”

Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel POOR THINGS was inspired by FRANKENSTEIN (& several other things)

https://alasdairgrayspace.net/who-is-alasdair-gray/poor-things

#Scottish #literature #MaryShelley #Frankenstein #FrankensteinDay

Everywhere she dies. Everywhere I go she dies.
No sunrise, no city square, no lurking beautiful mountain
but has her death in it.

—Norman MacCaig, “Memorial”
from THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)

Today, 30 August, is Grief Awareness Day

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Memorial by Norman MacCaig Everywhere she dies. Everywhere I go she dies. No sunrise, no city square, no lurking beautiful mountain but has her death in it. The silence of her dying sounds through the carousel of language, it's a web on which laughter stitches itself. How can my hand clasp another's when between them is that thick death, that intolerable distance? She grieves for my grief. Dying, she tells me that bird dives from the sun, that fish leaps into it. No crocus is carved more gently than the way her dying shapes my mind. – But I hear, too, the other words, black words that make the sound of soundlessness, that name the nowhere she is continuously going into. Ever since she died she can't stop dying. She makes me her elegy. I am a walking masterpiece, a true fiction of the ugliness of death. I am her sad music.

THE SAME. Discover
MRS. BETT, tidying the porch and singing. It is the following morning.
(Enter LULU with bag.)
MRS. BETT. Where you going now, for pity sakes?
LULU. Mother. Now, mother darling, listen and try to understand.
MRS. BETT. Well, I am listening, Lulie.
LULU. Mother, I can't stay here. I can't stay here any longer. I've got to get clear away from Dwight and…

— Zona Gale
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Born this day: 08/30/1797 (d. 02/01/1851) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley

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Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Cover art by Joe Weems Illustrations by Bernie Wrightson Introduction by Stephen King This cover features a high-contrast, black-and-white pen-and-ink illustration framed by an ornate, metallic gold S-shaped scrollwork border. At the top center, "FRANKENSTEIN" is printed in large, stark white serif capitals against a heavily textured, midnight-black background. The upper right corner displays a vibrant red Netflix logo—a solid red circle with a white "N"—positioned above the finely arched text "A NETFLIX FILM." The central scene depicts a dramatic encounter between two men inside a cluttered, shadowy laboratory. On the left, a man with dark, wavy hair and a textured wool coat gazes upward with intense apprehension. Looming over him from the right is a massive, muscular monster, its heavy head bowing toward the man's face. The monster’s hulking form is rendered through meticulous cross-hatching and deep black ink strokes that create profound shadows and brilliant highlights. The surrounding environment is crowded with intricate scientific apparatus, including glass beakers, curved retorts, and delicate flasks. Sharp, needle-like white highlights suggest the transparency of the glassware against the room's swallowing shadows. A harsh light from an unseen source above casts dramatic downward shadows that define the monster's grotesque musculature and the gritty laboratory setting. The overall aesthetic is defined by fine-line ink illustration.

Auf unter 100 Seiten erzählt es die Geschichte eines Mädchens, das aus einer Familie stammt, in der es keine aufrichtige Zuneigung, sondern Vernachlässigung erfährt. Bei der Pflegefamilie lernt es eine andere Welt kennen, was sie nachhaltig verändert.

Claire Keegan - Foster

Das Buch gibt es auch auf Deutsch und heißt 'Das dritte Licht'.

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Claire Keegan - Foster

"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be ... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking."

#literature

『青鞜』の冒険 (Seitō no bōken; "The 'Bluestocking' adventure") by 森まゆみ (Mori Mayumi), 2013

Fantastic insights into the making of Seitō ("Bluestocking"), the first Japanese magazine made by women for women, interwoven with anecdotes from the author's personal experience of publishing a zine. Highly enjoyable and informative even for someone who has already read quite a few texts by most of the main figures.

⭐⭐⭐⭐✨ (4,5/5)

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Cover of the Japanese book 'Seitō no bōken' by Mori Mayumi

The Screens by Jean Genet #books #literature #dedication

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To the memory of one who died young

O truant Muse what shall be thy amends
For thy neglect of truth in beauty dy'd?
Both truth and beauty on my love depends;
So dost thou too, and therein dignified.
Make answer Muse: wilt thou not haply say,
'Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd;
Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay;
But best is best, if never intermix'd'?
Because he needs…

— William Shakespeare
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#philosophy #love #bookstodon #books #literature

The merchant saw none other remedy;
And for to chide, it were but a folly,
Since that the thing might not amended be.
"Now, wife," he said, "and I forgive it thee;
But by thy life be no more so large;
Keep better my good, this give I thee in charge."
Thus endeth now my tale; and God us send
Taling enough, until our lives' end!

— Geoffrey Chaucer
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#fable #bookstodon #books #literature

𝗪𝗮𝘆𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗿: "𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗖𝘆𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗮 𝗖𝗿𝘂𝘇 -

3-Word Review:

- Inter-linked
- Thematically-rhythmed
- Melancholic

Frictional Posture:

- What disordering "serpent" licks at the edges of the speakers' experiences?

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“…my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee…”
—Mary Shelley, introduction to FRANKENSTEIN (1831 edn)

Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was born #OTD, 30 August. Prof Daniel Cook examines why Scotland mattered so much to Mary Shelley, & considers Shelley’s position in the Scottish Gothic tradition

@litstudies

https://www.nls.uk/papercut/mary-shelley-and-the-scottish-gothic-tradition/

#Scottish #literature #gothic #horror #Dundee #MaryShelley #Frankenstein #FrankensteinDay

Nuevos capítulos de *Mi vida como vampiro* ya disponibles: XVII y XVIII. Secretos, revelaciones y más drama vampírico. 🩸📖

https://fictograma.com/d/3918-mi-vida-como-vampiro-capitulos-xvii-y-xviii

#books #literature #writing

Nuevo capítulo de *Rusia de noche* ya disponible: el 7. Confesión, esperanza y un inesperado compañero de cuatro patas en la nieve. ❄️📖

https://fictograma.com/d/3920-rusia-de-noche-capitulo-7

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Nuevo capítulo de *Rusia de noche*: el 8. Interrogatorios, sospechas y un giro familiar inesperado. 🔍📖

https://fictograma.com/d/3921-rusia-de-noche-capitulo-8

#books #literature #writing

BEAU-NASTY. A slovenly fop; one finely dressed, but dirty.

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

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The collaborator and the carriage
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You told us you were the enemy
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“the novel’s fizzing exuberance derives from the fun of watching Gray’s keen authorial intelligence finding layer upon layer of unexpected possibility in his one ingenious narrative conceit”

Jonathan Coe reviews Alasdair Gray’s POOR THINGS – a “magnificently brisk, funny, dirty, brainy book” – for the London Review of Books

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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v14/n19/jonathan-coe/gray-s-elegy

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↕️ Renverse.co ↕️ Présentation du travail de D Hunter, ecrivain activiste: Une introduction aux textes de D Hunter que nous traduisons et publions sur le blog de la piraterie #DHunter #EcrivainActiviste #Literature #BlogDeLaPiraterie

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