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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 19h

...let him be, I say: and Heaven have mercy on us all — Presbyterians and Pagans alike — for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. Moby-Dick, Ch. 17

• From: Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" c. 1851.
• Source: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1983, New York, N.Y. Fourteenth Printing, The Library of America.

From Chapter I7 THE RAMADAN. Here, with "him" and the "Pagan," Ishmael is referring to Queequeg, the harpooner.

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Thank you, Laura. We hope you are well, and have a peaceful day and weekend.🥔🫶🌸

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

#WhitmanWednesday 🌾 Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. - Walt Whitman, Song of Myself (30)

Walt Whitman by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887.
Source: The Walt Whitman Archive.

• Excerpt from Song of Myself (30).
• Cover of the 1891-92 edition of Leaves of Grass. David McKay, publisher, 23 South 9th Street, Philadelphia.
• Image source: The Whitman Archive
• Text source: WALT WHITMAN: POETRY & PROSE
Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y.
Published in the United States by Library of America.
Twenty-second printing, 1982.

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

First published 100 years ago today... Some people care too much. I think it's called love. - A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh Illustration by Ernest H. Shepard.

A.A. Milne's collection of stories Winnie-the-Pooh (illustrated by E.H. Shepard) was first published in October 14, 1926, according to most accounts, in the UK.
• Original publication: Canada: McClelland & Stewart, Ltd., 1926.
Source: Project Gutenberg

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

#MelvilleMonday "The fiend-like skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines […] and the misery and desolation that follow in their train, are enough of themselves to distinguish the white civilized man as the most ferocious animal on the face of the earth." –Typee Ch.17

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Interesting! Thank you, Laura. After many years, I am rediscovering him (his pen is as intense as his gaze, it seems🧐).✨

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#TodaysPoem If there is a witness to my little life, To my tiny throes and struggles, He sees a fool; And it is not fine for gods to menace fools. - Stephen Crane, c. 1895

• Photo: Stephen Crane in 1899 [age ~27].
Source: Britannica Online Encyclopedia (Bettmann / Corbis). Public domain.
• Stephen Crane
Born: November 1, 1871, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Died: June 5, 1900 (aged 28), Baden, Germany (died of tuberculosis).

• Poem XIII, 1st edition of "The Black Riders and Other Lines" by Stephen Crane. Publisher: Copeland and Day, 1895, Boston.
• Sources:
- Wordpress.com, Principles of Literary Study (and Wikipedia).
- Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y., 1984, Library of America, first printing. From the University of Virginia Edition of The Works of Stephen Crane, University Press of Virginia, 1969 to 1975.

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

From: The Corn-Song by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892). 🙏 @bookish33.bsky.social 🌽☺️

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Then shame on all the proud and vain, Whose folly laughs to scorn The blessing of our hardy grain, Our wealth of golden corn! - John Greenleaf Whittier Heywood Hardy. Corn Stooks by Bray Church (1872).

Quote: from The Corn-Song, by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892).
Artist: Heywood Hardy (1843-1933)
Source: Yale Center for British Art

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Thank you, Suse🌤️ – and Happy Thanksgiving🍂🌽🍁

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Thank you! So true: It's my forth or fifth time through, and still it fascinates me.🪎

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Quote: Captain Peleg, co-owner of the whaleship Pequod, speaking to Ishmael.

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#MelvilleMonday "He's a grand, ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab; […] Ahab's above the common; Ahab's been in colleges, as well as 'mong the cannibals; been used to deeper wonders than the waves; fixed his fiery lance in mightier, stranger foes than whales." Moby-Dick, Ch. 16

• Quote: Captain Peleg, co-owner of the whale ship Pequod, speaking to Ishmael.
• From: Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" c. 1851.
• Source: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1983, New York, N.Y. Fourteenth Printing, The Library of America.

• Artwork by Francis Day, based on the photograph of Herman Melville, circa 1860. From the article HERMAN MELVILLE'S SOFT WITHDRAWAL by John Updike, May 2, 1982, The New Yorker.
• Source: LIFE Picture Collection (Courtesy of the Library of Congress).

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"And this thread of suspicion of the intellect is intertwined with another thread which runs through all of Eugene O'Neill—the hatred of acquisition." - Lionel Trilling, from the 1937 Introduction to O'Neill's The Hairy Ape (1922).

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#SundaySentence "Yank Smith is the embodiment of our modern pride of power; he 'belongs,' he thinks, to the world of speed and accomplishment, whose ends he does not question for its brutal poetry satisfies him." - Lionel Trilling, from the Introduction

From the Introduction by Lionel Trilling (1937), referring to the protagonist, Yank Smith, in O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape" (1922).

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

President Ford (c. 1974): "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over..."🙏

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"...and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he [Captain Bildad] in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore." Moby-Dick, Ch. 16

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"For some of these same Quakers are the most sanguinary of all sailors and whale-hunters. They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance." Moby-Dick, Ch. 16

• From "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" c. 1851.
• Source: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1983, New York, N.Y. Fourteenth Printing, The Library of America.

This excerpt and the following extraordinary paragraph (shown), address the peculiarities and contradictions related to the piety and "sanguinary" of the Quakers who dominated Nantucket whaling.

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don't think Stan will mind — he really "getz" it.🎷🤗

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Stan Getz (tenor sax) is accompanied by a marvelous trio: Oscar Peterson (piano), Herb Ellis (guitar), and Ray Brown (bass). Recorded on October 10, 1957 at Capitol Studios, Hollywood. "I'm Glad There Is You (In This World of Ordinary People)," written by Paul Madeira & Jimmy Dorsey, 1941.

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

From William Cullen Bryant's poem The Rivulet (c. 1821).

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#CycleofLife The visions of my youth are past, Too bright, too beautiful to last. - Wm Cullen Bryant 📷From my wife's walk:

• Semi-silhouette of a small tree, colorful leaves, and a backdrop of pale blue sky.
• Quote: From William Cullen Bryant's poem The Rivulet (c. 1821).

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#WhitmanWednesday 🌾 They, their like, the crowd of the grave workingmen of our world — they are the hope, the sole hope, the sufficient hope, of our democracy. - Walt Whitman, c. 1890

Source: "Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America" as told to his friend and confidante Horace Traubel over the last several years (c. 1888-1892) of Whitman's life. Published by Library of America, 2019.

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#WhitmanWednesday 🌾 All great ideas, the races' aspirations, All heroisms, deeds of rapt enthusiasts, Be ye my Gods. - Walt Whitman, from Gods (c. 1891)

• Walt Whitman's poem "Gods" was first published in 1871 – and later collected in Leaves of Grass (in the "By the Roadside" cluster), including the 1891-92 edition.
• Image:
Cover of the 1891-92 edition of Leaves of Grass,
David McKay, publisher
23 South 9th Street, Philadelphia
• Image source: The Whitman Archive
• Text source: WALT WHITMAN: POETRY & PROSE
Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y.
Published in the United States by Library of America.
Twenty-second printing, 1982.

Photo: Walt Whitman by G. Frank Pearsall, September 1872.
Source: The Whitman Archive

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There was set before me a mighty hill, And long days I climbed Through regions of snow. When I had before me the summit-view, It seemed that my labor Had been to see gardens Lying at impossible distances. - Stephen Crane, c. 1895

• Poem XXVI
• Cover of 1st edition of "The Black Riders and Other Lines" by Stephen Crane.
Publisher: Copeland and Day, 1895, Boston.
Source: Wordpress.com Principles of Literary Study (and Wikipedia).

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"People in Nantucket invest their money in whaling vessels, the same way that you do yours in approved state stocks bringing in good interest." Moby-Dick, Ch. 16

• Quote from "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" c. 1851.
• Source: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1983, New York, N.Y. Fourteenth Printing, The Library of America.

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CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#MelvilleMonday "A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that." Moby-Dick, Ch. 16 (referring to the Pequod)

• Artwork by Francis Day, based on a photograph of Herman Melville, circa 1860.
• From the article HERMAN MELVILLE'S SOFT WITHDRAWAL by John Updike, May 2, 1982, The New Yorker. Source: LIFE Picture Collection (Courtesy of the Library of Congress).

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