#bookwormsat — Public Fediverse posts
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In a peculiar piece of synchronicity, the nice man who runs the cheese stall on the market has just given me a free piece of Wife Of Bath cheese to try. What an Edamned coincidence! #BookWormSat #cheese #Somerset #synchronicity
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In a peculiar piece of synchronicity, the nice man who runs the cheese stall on the market has just given me a free piece of Wife Of Bath cheese to try. What an Edamned coincidence! #BookWormSat #cheese #Somerset #synchronicity
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Now, that's my sort of bookshop. #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #booksky #Victorian
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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 (Illustration by Jane Elizabeth Giraud #BookWormSat #Wordsworth #RomanticPoets #poetry
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This is my current #amreading: a darkly comic short novel (first published in 1934) about a terribly nice society lady whose behaviour is very terribly not nice after dark. I've not reached the supernatural bit yet but I know it's coming. I really like Michael Arlen - greatly underrated #BookWormSat
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‘The eastward pillars and their architraves stood up blackly against the light, and the great flame-shaped Sun-stone beyond them; and the Stone of Sacrifice midway.’ — Thomas Hardy, 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' (1891) #BookWormSat
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...high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely calculated less or more; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose - Wordwsorth, King's College Chapel, Cambridge #BookWormSat
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'The Tower Of London' by William Harrison Ainsworth was published in 1840, its plot centering round Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Days Queen. Here is the title page and one of the internal illustrations from a first edition I found online. £165 (plus postage if you fancy it!). #BookWormSat #Victorian
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"Aurelius ordered Merlin to erect round the burial-place the stones which he had brought from Ireland. Merlin obeyed the King's orders and put the stones up in a circle round the sepulchre." - Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12thC account of the erection of Stonehenge. #BookWormSat #StandingStoneSunday
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'The Magician' is a 1908 novel by Somerset Maugham. It features an occultist named Oliver Haddo (modelled on Aleister Crowley), who seduces a young woman. In the 1926 film adaptation, she experiences a terrifying vision of Pan in Hell. #BookWormSat 📷 Hubert Stowitts as Pan.
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"The mind is in its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n." - John Milton, 'Paradise Lost' #BookWormSat #Milton #poetry #poetrysky
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"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)
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Since we're in a 16th century frame of mind thanks to #BookWormSat, my weird picture of the day is one of Fabrizio Riccardi's illustrations for Rabelais' 'Pantagruel'. Riccardi is a contemporary Italian #surrealist. #weird #weirdart #surrealism #ItalianArt #artsky #Rabelais
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"A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;" - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 20 #BookWormSat #Shakespeare #poetry #gayhistory
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"A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;" - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 20 #BookWormSat #Shakespeare #poetry #gayhistory
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The ‘Weird Sisters’ of ‘Macbeth’ make their first appearance in the Scottish chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun, c. 1420. Because ‘weird’ has the sense of ‘fate,’ it is thought that the Weird Sisters may derive from the three Norns, Norse goddesses of Fate. #BookWormSat
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"Here comes Ancient Pistol." "Well roared, Bottom!" Bitchy Shakespearean interchange said to have taken place between Lord Alfred Douglas and Frank Harris when they encountered each other unexpectedly. #BookWormSat #queerhistory #gayhistory
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"Now it is the time of night That the graves all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide." 🪦👻 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, Scene I #BookwormSat
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‘What means the sound of the rain falling far and wide upon the leafy forest? ... These are all airs upon Pan’s pipe; he it was who gave them breath in the exultation of his heart, and gleefully modulated their outflow with his lips and fingers.’ — R.L. Stevenson #BookWormSat
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Weird picture of the day is by Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711). #BookWormSat #Gothic #skeleton #artsky #booksky
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"Footprints?" "Footprints." "A man’s or a woman's?" Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered. "Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly
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"The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself." - Ramakrishna #BookWormSat #deer #Ramakrishna #Hindu #Mysticism #philosophy
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Weird picture of the day: 'Library' by Franz Sedlacek. #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #artsky #MagicalRealism
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Another one by the Danish artist Don Kenn. I'm pretty sure that's a picture of me as a kid reading. And thank you to everyone's spirited contributions to what was another thoroughly enjoyable #PhantomsFriday yesterday. Here's to the next one! #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #DanishArt #ScandinavianArt
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"They've such a passion for Liberty that they can't help taking liberties with her." - Martin Chuzzlewit on Americans (Dickens, sharp as ever. I appreciate the Statue Of Liberty wasn't constructed until after Dickens's death.) #BookWormSat #Dickens
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"Elsewhere people are restless, worried, hurried about... Nothing of the kind here, sir. We have done with all that - we know the worst of it; we have got to the bottom, we can't fall, and what have we found? Peace." - Dr Haggard in Debtor's Prison, 'Little Dorrit' #BookWormSat #CharlesDickens
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A mid-Victorian illustration of the sudden appearance of the woman in 'The Black Veil', in the creepy mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published in 1836. #BookWormSat #Dickens #Victorian #gothic
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Did you know that #Brownies also know n come from Scottish folklore?
These charming household hobgoblins are known for their helpfulness, tackling chores when no one is watching.
Leave out some milk or cream and they may lend a hand around your home. 🧹
#ScottishFolklore 🏴🎨 Arthur Rackham circa 1917.
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"Before it is possible to gather the harvest of thought and observation the summer has passed, and we must bind the hastily stitched book with the crimson leaves of autumn." - Richard Jefferies, 'Among The Nuts'. Painting by Samuel Palmer #BookWormSat #RichardJefferies #SamuelPalmer #landscape
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"Before it is possible to gather the harvest of thought and observation the summer has passed, and we must bind the hastily stitched book with the crimson leaves of autumn." - Richard Jefferies, 'Among The Nuts'. Painting by Samuel Palmer #BookWormSat #RichardJefferies #SamuelPalmer #landscape
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"Before it is possible to gather the harvest of thought and observation the summer has passed, and we must bind the hastily stitched book with the crimson leaves of autumn." - Richard Jefferies, 'Among The Nuts'. Painting by Samuel Palmer #BookWormSat #RichardJefferies #SamuelPalmer #landscape
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"Before it is possible to gather the harvest of thought and observation the summer has passed, and we must bind the hastily stitched book with the crimson leaves of autumn." - Richard Jefferies, 'Among The Nuts'. Painting by Samuel Palmer #BookWormSat #RichardJefferies #SamuelPalmer #landscape
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"Before it is possible to gather the harvest of thought and observation the summer has passed, and we must bind the hastily stitched book with the crimson leaves of autumn." - Richard Jefferies, 'Among The Nuts'. Painting by Samuel Palmer #BookWormSat #RichardJefferies #SamuelPalmer #landscape
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Celebrate Antoine Wiertz's birthday and his premature burial masterpiece with the theme strange things that happen around coffins and in graveyards.
#BookWormSat 🕯️✨ The Fairy Coffins, discovered in 1836 in Edinburgh, are a mystery with no clear origin. Though dubbed “Fairy Coffins,” they aren’t linked to fairy rites. Early theories link them to witchcraft, particularly near Arthur’s Seat, known for witch gatherings. #FairyCoffins #StrangeThings
The Edinburgh Fairy Coffins in Public Domain
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"That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean."
"Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?" asked the princess, a little offended.
-George MacDonald, 'The Princess and the Goblin'
#BookWormSat🎨: Jessie Willcox Smith
#ThePrincessAndTheGoblin #GeorgeMacDonald #Fantasy #ChildrensLiterature #ChildrensBookIllustration
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"And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "Which it is," he added. "So there you are." #BookWormSat
📖 : Winnie-The-Pooh by A. A. Milne
🎨: E. H. Shepard#WinnieThePooh #AAMilne #EHShepard #Pooh #Owl #ChildrensBook #Illustration
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#Truecrime fans Ella & Cooper! #WomenWhoMurder is #rescuedog approved!
#books #bookrelease #newbooks #bookstagram #bookboost #pickupapageturner #BookRecommendation #booktok #readers #goodreads #booklist #BookWormSat #readingworld #bookstodon
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"And instead of having an uneasy conscience pricking him and whispering 'whitewash!' he somehow could only feel how jolly it was to be the only idle dog among all these busy citizens."
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
#BookWormSat#TheWindInTheWillows #KennethGrahame #Mole #Moley #ChildrensLiterature
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"Nüwa was swimming in the Eastern Sea when she was unable to return to shore & drowned. She then transformed into the bird Spirit-Guardian & regularly carries twigs & stones from the Western Mountains to fill up the Eastern Sea."
📜: The Classic of Mountains & Seas
📷 : Hussain Zidhan
#BookWormSat#Folklore #China #ChineseFolklore #ChineseMythology #Jingwei #Nüwa #Bird #Mythology
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"If you can support GIVE A BOOK it’s the most brilliant present for someone you'll never know. But you'll have shared something special with them anyway… a love for books!”
#TobyStephens is supporting www.giveabook.org as a Christmas charity via Daily Express 😍📚
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“I’ve gone by other names, but I do prefer Poseidon.”
"Like the god of the sea.”
"Very much like that, yes.”
– Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)