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"'John,' said his mother, 'this lady is Mrs Shaw, Miss Hale's aunt. I am sorry to say, that Miss Hale's call is to wish us goodbye.'
'You are going then?' said he, in a low voice.
'Yes,' said Margaret. 'We leave tomorrow.'

Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South

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"'I don’t see why it’s taken thousands of years to sort out.' 'That’s because the people trying to sort it out were men,' said Pepper, meaningfully.”

Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens

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"To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens and ink, with the manual capacity of using them."

- Henry Fielding, 'Tom Jones'

(Oh, if only it were so!)
#BookWormSat #writing #notwriting

"To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens and ink, with the manual capacity of using them."

- Henry Fielding, 'Tom Jones'

(Oh, if only it were so!)
#BookWormSat #writing #notwriting

"To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens and ink, with the manual capacity of using them."

- Henry Fielding, 'Tom Jones'

(Oh, if only it were so!)
#BookWormSat #writing #notwriting

"To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens and ink, with the manual capacity of using them."

- Henry Fielding, 'Tom Jones'

(Oh, if only it were so!)
#BookWormSat #writing #notwriting

"To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens and ink, with the manual capacity of using them."

- Henry Fielding, 'Tom Jones'

(Oh, if only it were so!)
#BookWormSat #writing #notwriting

"Films are for everyone, collective, generous, with children cheering when the cavalry arrives. But your books are selfish. Solitary. Some can't even be read. A person who's interested only in books doesn't need other people; that frightens me."
- Arturo Pérez-Reverte, "The Club Dumas"
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Gah! How could I forget #BookWormSat? So many quotes - so little time!

"Books are sweet, unreproaching companions to the miserable, and if they can not bring us to enjoy life, they will at least teach us to endure it."

- Oliver Goldsmith, 'The Vicar Of Wakefield'
(Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds)

Gah! How could I forget #BookWormSat? So many quotes - so little time!

"Books are sweet, unreproaching companions to the miserable, and if they can not bring us to enjoy life, they will at least teach us to endure it."

- Oliver Goldsmith, 'The Vicar Of Wakefield'
(Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds)

'September came in with golden days and silver nights'

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King #BookwormSat

🎨 Alan Reynolds 'Summer: Young September’s Cornfield' (1954)

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"He studied the small scattered frog bodies, some already shrivelled, some newly dead, each with a leg secured by a yucca thread to a tiny peg cut from a twig ... they followed a series of faint concentric circles. Some sort of game, Leaphorn guessed."

Tony Hillerman - A Thief of Time

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"A large soprano was making an ineffective attempt to be heard over the chatter ...
'That's Jane Lane" Alex told her. "The king posed as her groom and they rode pillion to Bristol. Those two would need an elephant!'"

Stella Riley - The Marigold Chain
🎨Etching by Unknown Artist 1660s

"I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote 'I am that I am,' for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma."
- Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum"
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"I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote 'I am that I am,' for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma."
- Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum"
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"I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote 'I am that I am,' for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma."
- Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum"
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"I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote 'I am that I am,' for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma."
- Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum"
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"I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote 'I am that I am,' for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma."
- Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum"
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"He loops in crazy figures half the night
Among the trees that face the corner light.
When he brushes up against a screen,
We are afraid of what our eyes have seen:
For something is amiss or out of place
When mice with wings can wear a human face."
- Theodore Roethke, "The Bat"
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#BookWormSat #InternationalBatNight

"The day waned into a gloomy evening ... I went out alone ... walking a little in the park, watching the dark shades falling on the trees and the fitful flight of the bats, which sometimes almost touched me ..."

Charles Dickens - Bleak House
🎨Nomura Yoshikuni

#BookWormSat #InternationalBatNight

"A Beast he would be, or a bird,
As might suit, thought the Bat: but he erred.
When the battle was done,
He found that no one
Would take him for friend at his word."

[He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends]

Walter Crane
🎨Don Dailey

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

To Know the Dark🌑Wendell Berry
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A copy of one of Cynthia Asquith's anthologies of weird fiction, published in 1929. (Do I own a copy? I wish!)
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #InternationalBatNight #bats #ghosts #Gothic

A copy of one of Cynthia Asquith's anthologies of weird fiction, published in 1929. (Do I own a copy? I wish!)
#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #InternationalBatNight #bats #ghosts #Gothic

" Now Air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed Bat,
With short shrill Shriek flits by on leathern Wing"

- William Collins, 'Ode to Evening' (mid 18th Century)
Illustration by Gustave Dore
#BookWormSat #poetry #InternationalBatNight #bats

" Now Air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed Bat,
With short shrill Shriek flits by on leathern Wing"

- William Collins, 'Ode to Evening' (mid 18th Century)
Illustration by Gustave Dore
#BookWormSat #poetry #InternationalBatNight #bats

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"Vast open spaces
empty places
haunted souls
eerie whispers and moans
rattling bones
screams of horror
living on fear
creaking doors
screeching floors
shutters slamming
howling in the wind
trapped between four walls ..."

Persian Khushi - Haunted
Lesley Oldaker

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"We saw three queer, black, ugly birds -
Too big by far, in my belief,
For guillemot or shag -
Like seamen sitting bolt-upright
Upon a half-tide reef:
But as we neared they plunged from sight
Without a sound or spurt of white ..."

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson - Flannan Isle
🎨 Kim Onyskiw

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"We saw three queer, black, ugly birds -
Too big by far, in my belief,
For guillemot or shag -
Like seamen sitting bolt-upright
Upon a half-tide reef:
But as we neared they plunged from sight
Without a sound or spurt of white ..."

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson - Flannan Isle
🎨 Kim Onyskiw

"The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from Heaven to Earth, from Earth to Heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name."
- William Shakespeare
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‘Oh whence do you come, my dear friend, to me,
With your golden hair all fallen below your knee,
And your face as white as snowdrops on the lea,
And your voice as hollow as the hollow sea?’
-The Poor Ghost, Christina Rossetti
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Speak! Speak! - John Everett M...

‘Oh whence do you come, my dear friend, to me,
With your golden hair all fallen below your knee,
And your face as white as snowdrops on the lea,
And your voice as hollow as the hollow sea?’
-The Poor Ghost, Christina Rossetti
redbubble.com/shop/ap/3538... #art #BookwormSat #poetry #ghosts #poem

Speak! Speak! - John Everett M...

‘Oh whence do you come, my dear friend, to me,
With your golden hair all fallen below your knee,
And your face as white as snowdrops on the lea,
And your voice as hollow as the hollow sea?’
-The Poor Ghost, Christina Rossetti
redbubble.com/shop/ap/3538... #art #BookwormSat #poetry #ghosts #poem

Speak! Speak! - John Everett M...

‘Oh whence do you come, my dear friend, to me,
With your golden hair all fallen below your knee,
And your face as white as snowdrops on the lea,
And your voice as hollow as the hollow sea?’
-The Poor Ghost, Christina Rossetti
redbubble.com/shop/ap/3538... #art #BookwormSat #poetry #ghosts #poem

Speak! Speak! - John Everett M...

‘Oh whence do you come, my dear friend, to me,
With your golden hair all fallen below your knee,
And your face as white as snowdrops on the lea,
And your voice as hollow as the hollow sea?’
-The Poor Ghost, Christina Rossetti
redbubble.com/shop/ap/3538... #art #BookwormSat #poetry #ghosts #poem

Speak! Speak! - John Everett M...

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"Between Caer Cenodir and the shore
Of the great sea and Cinran
In Aber Gwenoli is the grave of Pryderi,
Where the waves beat against the land ...

... The grave of Gwalchmai is in Peryddon,
Where the ninth wave flows."

Black Book of Carmarthen - Stanza of the Graves
📷Adrina Garibian

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"But in her web she still delights
To weave the mirror's magic sights,
For often thro' the silent nights
A funeral, with plumes and lights
   And music, came from Camelot ..."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson - The Lady of Shalott
🎨John William Waterhouse

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"... Or when the moon was overhead
Came two young lovers lately wed;
'I am half sick of shadows,' said
       The Lady of Shalott."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson - The Lady of Shalott
🎨Sidney Harold Meteyard

"Travellers within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows see
Vast forms, that move fantastically
To a discordant melody,
While, like a ghastly rapid river,
Through the pale door
A hideous throng rush out forever
And laugh — but smile no more."
- Edgar Allan Poe, "Haunted Palace"
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"We are mere transients, who sing
Its westlin’ winds and fernie braes,
Northern lights and siller tides,

Small folk playing our part.
‘Come all ye’, the country says,
You win me, who take me most to heart."

Kathleen Jamie - Here Lies Our Land
📷Josh Dury

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"... I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both."

Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
🎨AnimeVeteran [DeviantArt]

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"You will have the benefit of my experiences in Italy ...”

Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
📷1985 A Room With A View

"Jekyll with a greedy gusto shared in the pleasures and adventures of Hyde; but Hyde was indifferent to Jekyll.... To cast in my lot with Jekyll was to die to those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and begun to pamper."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
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"When thowes dissolve the snawy hoord.
An' float the jinglin icy boord,
Then, water-kelpies haunt the foord,
By your direction,
An' nighted trav'llers are allur'd
To their destruction."

'Address To The Deil', Robert Burns, 1785 #BookwormSat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🎨 Water kelpy, 1821 (more details in alt text)

It may be worth recalling that Scott's 'The Antiquary', which I quoted from earlier today, is supposedly the origin of the word 'cliffhanger', thanks to a nail-biting conclusion to one of its chapters - illustrated below. The novel was published in 1816.
#BookWormSat #ScottishLiterature #writing

It may be worth recalling that Scott's 'The Antiquary', which I quoted from earlier today, is supposedly the origin of the word 'cliffhanger', thanks to a nail-biting conclusion to one of its chapters - illustrated below. The novel was published in 1816.
#BookWormSat #ScottishLiterature #writing

"- Ah! How dark
These long-extended realms and rueful wastes;
Where naught but silence reigns, and night, dark night,
Dark as was Chaos ere the Infant Sun
Was roll'd together, or had tried its beams
Athwart the gloom profound!"

- Rev Robert Blair
#BookWormSat #ScottishLiterature #poetry #Gothic

"- Ah! How dark
These long-extended realms and rueful wastes;
Where naught but silence reigns, and night, dark night,
Dark as was Chaos ere the Infant Sun
Was roll'd together, or had tried its beams
Athwart the gloom profound!"

- Rev Robert Blair
#BookWormSat #ScottishLiterature #poetry #Gothic

"- Ah! How dark
These long-extended realms and rueful wastes;
Where naught but silence reigns, and night, dark night,
Dark as was Chaos ere the Infant Sun
Was roll'd together, or had tried its beams
Athwart the gloom profound!"

- Rev Robert Blair
#BookWormSat #ScottishLiterature #poetry #Gothic

"The western waves of ebbing day
Roll o'er the glen their level way;
Each purple peak, each flinty spire,
Was bathed in floods of living fire."

- From 'The Lady Of the Lake' by Sir Walter Scott
#BookWormSat #poetry

"The western waves of ebbing day
Roll o'er the glen their level way;
Each purple peak, each flinty spire,
Was bathed in floods of living fire."

- From 'The Lady Of the Lake' by Sir Walter Scott
#BookWormSat #poetry

"The western waves of ebbing day
Roll o'er the glen their level way;
Each purple peak, each flinty spire,
Was bathed in floods of living fire."

- From 'The Lady Of the Lake' by Sir Walter Scott
#BookWormSat #poetry

"The western waves of ebbing day
Roll o'er the glen their level way;
Each purple peak, each flinty spire,
Was bathed in floods of living fire."

- From 'The Lady Of the Lake' by Sir Walter Scott
#BookWormSat #poetry

"Like other men who spend their lives in obscure literary research, he had a secret ambition to appear in print which was checked by cold fits of diffidence, fear of criticism and habits of indolence and procrastination."
- Sir Walter Scott, 'The Antiquary'
#BookWormSat #writing

"Like other men who spend their lives in obscure literary research, he had a secret ambition to appear in print which was checked by cold fits of diffidence, fear of criticism and habits of indolence and procrastination."
- Sir Walter Scott, 'The Antiquary'
#BookWormSat #writing

"Like other men who spend their lives in obscure literary research, he had a secret ambition to appear in print which was checked by cold fits of diffidence, fear of criticism and habits of indolence and procrastination."
- Sir Walter Scott, 'The Antiquary'
#BookWormSat #writing

"Like other men who spend their lives in obscure literary research, he had a secret ambition to appear in print which was checked by cold fits of diffidence, fear of criticism and habits of indolence and procrastination."
- Sir Walter Scott, 'The Antiquary'
#BookWormSat #writing

"The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men
Gang aft agley....

Still, [Mousie,] thou art blest, compar'd wi' me!
The present only toucheth thee:
But Och! I backward cast my eye,
On prospects drear!
An' forward tho' I canna see,
I guess an' fear!"

- Robert Burns, "To a Mouse"
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"Father Wolf listened, and below in the valley that ran down to a little river he heard the dry, angry, snarly, singsong whine of a tiger who has caught nothing and does not care if all the jungle knows it."
- Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
🎨Charles James Sharp
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