Joseph Cowan Cross House
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And there he stands, looking down Westgate Road, the mighty Joseph Cowan.
What would the modern political scene make of such a man?
Behind him, Cross House, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Sorry about the seagull Joe.
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“While he was yet a student, there came to him a dream-adventure which he has no anxiety to repeat; he began, that is to say, to dream in sequence and thus to lead a double life…”
—read Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Chapter on Dreams” on @gutenberg_org
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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30990/30990-h/30990-h.htm#page177
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay
“Stevenson relates examples of vivid dreams at length, as illustrations of this detailed, indigenous creation of narrative material, but also as a pathology which leads to the reification of such dream residuum in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde…”
—Kevan Manwaring, “That Crafty Artifice: Stevenson’s Brownies and the Writing Process”
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#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay
In ‘A Chapter on Dream’ Robert Louis Stevenson describes a creative process informed by dreams and possibly by other, more mysterious forces. If we are to accept Stevenson’s self-reflexive examination of methodology as sincere and not as some ironical stance or whimsical apologia, which, as Henry James notes in ‘The Art of Fiction’ was all-too-common […]
From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…
—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod” – from A Child’s Garden of Verses
Image: illustration by Charles Robinson (1870–1937) to “The Land of Nod”
Today, 25 September, is #WorldDreamDay
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47431/the-land-of-nod
#Scottish #literature #kidlit #poetry #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #dream #dreams #dreaming
World Dream Day – Giornata Mondiale dei Sogni!
Un risveglio speciale per dare spazio ai desideri, alle speranze e a tutta la magia dei sogni che ci fanno volare. 🌙☕💭
#WorldDreamDay #GiornataMondialeDeiSogni #Sogni #DreamBig #IHaveADream #perfettamentechic
http://perfettamentechic.com/2025/09/25/giornata-mondiale-dei-sogni/
It’s #WorldDreamDay! What photos do you dream to be able to take at some point in your life?
“While he was yet a student, there came to him a dream-adventure which he has no anxiety to repeat; he began, that is to say, to dream in sequence and thus to lead a double life…”
—read Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Chapter on Dreams” on @gutenberg_org
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay
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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30990/30990-h/30990-h.htm#page177
“Stevenson relates examples of vivid dreams at length, as illustrations of this detailed, indigenous creation of narrative material, but also as a pathology which leads to the reification of such dream residuum in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde…”
—Kevan Manwaring, “That Crafty Artifice: Stevenson’s Brownies and the Writing Process”
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #dream #dreams #dreaming #WorldDreamDay
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In ‘A Chapter on Dream’ Robert Louis Stevenson describes a creative process informed by dreams and possibly by other, more mysterious forces. If we are to accept Stevenson’s self-reflexive examination of methodology as sincere and not as some ironical stance or whimsical apologia, which, as Henry James notes in ‘The Art of Fiction’ was all-too-common […]
From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod…
—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod” – from A Child’s Garden of Verses
Image: illustration by Charles Robinson (1870–1937) to “The Land of Nod”
Today, 25 September, is #WorldDreamDay
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#Scottish #literature #kidlit #poetry #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #dream #dreams #dreaming
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47431/the-land-of-nod
From breakfast on through all the day At home among my friends I stay, But every night I go abroad Afar into the land of Nod. All by myself I have to go, With none to tell me what to do — All alone beside the streams And up the mountain-sides of dreams. The strangest things are there for me, Both…
Today is 25th of September.
Today is World Dream Day, World Pharmacist Day, National Quesadilla Day, National Psychotherapy Day.
#WorldDreamDay #WorldPharmacistDay #NationalQuesadillaDay #NationalPsychotherapyDay
Justin Farrimond
Assoc for Scottish Literature
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