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From 'Green Willow And Other Japanese Fairy Tales', Warwick Goble, 1910.
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Well, I posted this only yesterday but now I've seen the #BookWormSat theme, I shall post it again!

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"They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward ...”

E M Forster - Maurice

"This was the sort of resident who was content to do nothing but sit in his over-priced apartment, watch television with the sound turned down, and wait for his neighbours to make a mistake."
J G Ballard - 'High Rise'
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"It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so."

- Jerome K Jerome, 'Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow'
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Queen Anne, Queen Anne, has washed her lace
(She chose a summer day)
And hung it in a grassy place
To whiten, if it may.
...
Queen Anne, Queen Anne, is dead and gone
(She died a summer's day),
But left her lace to whiten on
Each weed-entangled way!

By Mary Leslie Newton #BookwormSat

"What favourite flowers are mine, I cannot say -
My fancy changes with the summer day.
Sometimes I think, agreeing with the Bees,
That my best flowers are those tall apple trees,
Who give a Bee his cyder while in bloom,
And keep me waiting till their apples come."
- W H Davies
#BookWormSat #poetry

flowering gorse bush
leaning over
towards the sea
as if its growth
were towards completion
of yellow in blue

Thomas A. Clark (2014)
🎨 Peregrine Mulvogue Feeney (c.1885)
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flowering gorse bush
leaning over
towards the sea
as if its growth
were towards completion
of yellow in blue

Thomas A. Clark (2014)
🎨 Peregrine Mulvogue Feeney (c.1885)
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"Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;
And 'tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes."

- Wordsworth, 'Lines Written In Early Spring'
The charming painting (of less fortunate primroses - ahem!) is by Miles Birket Foster
#BookWormSat #poetry

In hawthorn-time the heart grows light
The world is sweet in sound and sight
Glad thoughts and birds take flower and flight
The heather kindles toward the light
The whin is frankincense and flame

Swinburne, The Tale of Balen
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In Susan Cooper's 'Over Sea, Under Stone' (1965), some standing stones loom over the village of Trewissick. Mr Penhallow tells the children that ‘people thought the rocks were haunted, and unlucky, and he sounded as if he believed it himself. He said they call them the Gravestones.’ #BookWormSat

I loved C S Lewis, I loved Leon Garfield, I loved 'Stig Of The Dump', I enjoyed Alan Garner and I loved Susan Cooper. But above all of them was John Gordon's 'The Giant In The Snow' (1968). Original, suspenseful, terrifying, it remains a masterpiece of what I now know as #FolkHorror.
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The most important fantasy literature for me growing up were the Target #DoctorWho novelisations, most written with brio by former script editor Terrance Dicks, the others by the writers of the original teleplays. It was a thrill as each came out: you never knew which story it would be!
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The most important fantasy literature for me growing up were the Target #DoctorWho novelisations, most written with brio by former script editor Terrance Dicks, the others by the writers of the original teleplays. It was a thrill as each came out: you never knew which story it would be!
#BookWormSat

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus
#BookWormSat #Camus

“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
🎨Gustave Dore
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3536... #BookwormSat #art #fineart #giftidea #literature #bookchatweekly #wallart

Flowers in a Landscape, Summer...

“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
🎨Gustave Dore
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3536... #BookwormSat #art #fineart #giftidea #literature #bookchatweekly #wallart

Flowers in a Landscape, Summer...

In Forrest Reid’s ‘The Garden God’ (1905), a boy’s love for a new friend binds him to ‘the great god Pan himself; the Hamadryads, who inhabit the forest trees; and Oreads, and Naiads, and Hyades – the deities of water-springs, and streams, and showers of summer rain.’ #BookWormSat

🎨 David Teniers

In Forrest Reid’s ‘The Garden God’ (1905), a boy’s love for a new friend binds him to ‘the great god Pan himself; the Hamadryads, who inhabit the forest trees; and Oreads, and Naiads, and Hyades – the deities of water-springs, and streams, and showers of summer rain.’ #BookWormSat

🎨 David Teniers

"My heart is fixed firm and stable in the belief that ultimately the sunshine and the summer, the flowers and the azure sky, shall become as it were interwoven into man's existence. He shall take from all their beauty and enjoy their glory."

- An optimistic Richard Jefferies, 1884
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"Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren’t go a-hunting
For fear of little men;
Wee folk, good folk,
Trooping all together;
Green jacket, red cap,
And white owl’s feather!"

William Allingham #BookwormSat

🎨 The Fairy Raid: Carrying Off a Changeling, #Midsummer Eve by Joseph Noel Paton

I visited the Scottish Highlands, the New Forest in Hampshire, the Cumberland Lakes, Southern Ireland and many another likely haunt, to meet nature lovers, many of whom are clairvoyant, and to learn from them of their experiences
- Edward Gardner seeks #fairy haunts in 'Fairies', 1945
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Fairy tales, of course, were #fairy tales, yet they enshrined the undying truths of life and human nature, catching at the skirts of radiant wonder, giving hints of ineffable wonder. Fairies, the Little People, happy dwellers in some non-human state...
- Algernon Blackwood, 'The Trod'
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"In truth we do not go to Faery, we become Fairy, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years."

James Stephens 'Irish Fairy Tales'
(1910s, published 1920)
🎨 Micheal Mac Liammoir
'Oidhcheanna Sidhe (Fairy Nights)' 1919
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"In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly. Whatever it was I wanted from my mother was simply not there to be had. It was not her fault. And it was therefore not my fault that I was unable to elicit it." - Alison Bechdel, "Are You My Mother?" #BookWormSat #PrideMonth

"In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly. Whatever it was I wanted from my mother was simply not there to be had. It was not her fault. And it was therefore not my fault that I was unable to elicit it." - Alison Bechdel, "Are You My Mother?" #BookWormSat #PrideMonth

"Let us honour if we can The vertical man, Though we value none But the horizontal one!" - W H Auden [Pictured, right, with Christopher Isherwood] #BookWormSat #Pride #PrideMonth #poetry

"Let us honour if we can The vertical man, Though we value none But the horizontal one!" - W H Auden [Pictured, right, with Christopher Isherwood] #BookWormSat #Pride #PrideMonth #poetry

"Only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell." - Truman Capote, 'Other Voices, Other Rooms' #Pride #BookWormSat

"Only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell." - Truman Capote, 'Other Voices, Other Rooms' #Pride #BookWormSat

Because we two who never did them harm, And never dreamt of harm ourselves, find men So eager to perplex and alarm And scare from us our dove-like thoughts, well then Since 'twixt the world and truth must be our choice, Let us seem vile, not be so, and rejoice. - M A Raffolovich #Pride #BookWormSat

Because we two who never did them harm, And never dreamt of harm ourselves, find men So eager to perplex and alarm And scare from us our dove-like thoughts, well then Since 'twixt the world and truth must be our choice, Let us seem vile, not be so, and rejoice. - M A Raffolovich #Pride #BookWormSat

#BookWormSat “It’s a chance in a thousand we’ve met, we’ll never have the chance again and you know it. Stay with me. We love each other.” E M Forster - Maurice

There's a popular story about a staging of 'Antony & Cleopatra' at the Lyceum in the 19th C. During an Act 2 scene of bacchanalian excess in Cleopatra's court, an old lady in the front row was heard to comment: 'Dear! Dear! What a contrast to the home life of our own dear Queen.' #BookWormSat

After some unknown tiff between dandy supreme Beau Brummell and the Prince of Wales, they met again at a society event in 1813 hosted by Lord Alvanley. The Prince Regent pointedly snubbed Brummell, who responded by asking: 'Alvanley, who's your fat friend?' His days at court were over. #BookWormSat

‘I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?’ — Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi #BookWormSat 🎨 Hossein Behzad, ‘Rumi’ (1957)

"The ill-wishing eye, may it be torn out, Sees only defects in his virtue. But if thou possessest one virtue and seventy faults, A friend sees nothing except that virtue." - From 'The Gulistan' of Saadi (translated by Edward Rehatsek) #BookWormSat #Persia

I have a gentle cock, Croweth me day; He doth me risen erly My matins for to say. I have a gentle cock, Comen he is of gret; His comb is of red coral, His tail is of jet. His eynen arn of cristal, Loken all in aumber; And every night he percheth him In mine ladye's chamber. - 15th C #BookWormSat

RELIGION: A goodly tree, in which all the foul birds of the air have made their nests. - Ambrose Bierce, 'The Devil's Dicionary' #BookWormSat #AmbroseBierce #satire

RELIGION: A goodly tree, in which all the foul birds of the air have made their nests. - Ambrose Bierce, 'The Devil's Dicionary' #BookWormSat #AmbroseBierce #satire

In 1902 'The Strand Magazine' serialized 'The Psammead' by Edith Nesbit. On book publication it was renamed 'Five Children and It' (not to be confused with killer clown). Here the youngest of the five tries to make friends with the bad-tempered hobgoblin. #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #fairystories

Now, that's my sort of bookshop. #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #booksky #Victorian

Now, that's my sort of bookshop. #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #booksky #Victorian

"Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes." - Wordsworth (Illustration by Jane Elizabeth Giraud #BookWormSat #Wordsworth #RomanticPoets #poetry

"Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes." - Wordsworth (Illustration by Jane Elizabeth Giraud #BookWormSat #Wordsworth #RomanticPoets #poetry

"As to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That ghosts have just as good a right, In every way, to fear the light As men to fear the dark." "No plea," said I, "can well excuse Such cowardice in you...." - Lewis Carroll, "Phantasmagoria" 🎨Arthur B. Frost #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly

"Before you can scare others, you must be scared yourself. Ghostly fear is transmitted, not concocted." - H R Wakefield on the art of writing ghost stories, of which, of course, he was a master. #BookWormSat #ghoststories #supernatural #vintagepaperbacks

"History began badly and hav steadily got worse." - Nigel Molesworth #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #WorldHeritageDay #RonaldSearle

"There is only one principle in Hell. Bring back food or be food yourself." - C S Lewis, 'The Screwtape Letters' #BookWormSat #CSLewis #demonology #BookChatWeekly (I had to repost this because a Renaissance painting of Hell was AdultContent-ed. *sigh* So here's 'Calvin In Hell' by Heemskerck)