Telmo 🦕Every time I finish a biography, it feels like losing an old neighbor. Someone who lived just across the hall, familiar in quiet ways, now suddenly gone. Closing the book brings a small grief, knowing I won’t meet them again, but also a quiet curiosity. The apartment is empty now, and sooner or later someone new will move in.
palimpseste_botAug. 25, 1841.
No. 2. A Resolution relating to the light-boats now stationed at Sandy Hook and Bartlett’s Reef.
— United States Statutes at Large
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Having brought my eventide musings to this point, I rose, went to my door, and looked at the sunset of the harvest-day, and at the quiet fields before my cottage, which, with the school, was distant half a mile from the village. The birds were singing their last strains—
— Charlotte Brontë
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YoraDeconstruction is actually fun when you do it to something that you love with the purpose of finding new meaning, rather than out of spite to find arguments while it's bad.
I get why people habitually sat down to do some recreational philosophy without some personal crisis that needed resolving. 😄
The time has finally arrived for all of us--you as father, I as teacher, and the young ones—-to seriously discuss this problem face to face. You have your own opinion as a father, Yoshiko on her part has her right to freedom, and I have my own opinion as her teacher. I am sorry to intrude on your precious time, but I do hope that you will be able to come up to Tokyo.
— Motoko Reece
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David Castleton (Author)St Mary's Churchyard, in the seaside town of Whitby, which appears in Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'. The Count's 1st victim on English soil is a Mr Swales, who is found on a churchyard bench with his neck broken and 'a look of horror on his face'. Stoker took the name from a gravestone in the churchyard - the stone is still there and the name, though faint, can still be made out. Many of the gravestones have no body buried beneath as the dead were lost at sea. #FolkloreSunday #folklore #churches #vampires #vampire #gothic #literature #books #horror #history #mythology #architecture #sea #weird
Assoc for Scottish LiteratureThe Contested Cottage: Scottish Literature, Irish Partition & the Cottage Nation
22 April, University of Edinburgh & online – free
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar: Dr Sarah Sharp examines “kailyard” literature in Scotland & Ulster in the long 19th century
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You got to go by yourself in the middle of the woods where you know there is a spunkwater stump, and just as it's midnight you back up against the stump and jam your hand in and say:
— George Thomas White Patrick
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Book dedications botDark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe #books #literature #dedication
Mrs. Coates Finds Modern Poets Nervously Seeking Novelties, and Says in Art There Can Be Nothing New That Is Not Ugly
— Joyce Kilmer
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