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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"And the rabbit from his pathway Leaped aside, and at a distance Sat erect upon his haunches Half in fear and half in frolic Saying to the little hunter, 'Do not shoot me, Hiawatha!'" Hiawatha's Childhood H. W. Longfellow #BookWormSat #Nat'lHuntingandFishingDay

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Awake, I think, I burn, I weep; and she who is my undoing Is ever before me to my sweet pain... A thousand times a day I die and a thousand I am born; So far away am I from my salvation." Sonnet 164 Francesco Petrarca #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"our sky, cement; our trees, steel; ... Coming up the subway stairs, I thought the moon only another street-light-- a little crooked." #20 Jerusalem the Golden Charles Reznikoff #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I guess I'm first @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.net @lillieg.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #1185 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free..." The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry Walter Pater #BookWormSat

Launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope 2026

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"A twitch, a twitter, an elastic shudder in flight And serrated wings against the sky Like a glove thrown up at the light, And falling back." Bat D. H. Lawrence #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Fools rush in...etc. @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.net @lillieg.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #1174 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🤷

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"You may not feel my hand upon your head, I'll be so new and inexpert a ghost. Perhaps you will not know that I am near-- And that will break my ghostly heart, my dear." I Shall Come Back Dorothy Parker #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"For nought can cheer the heart sae weel As can a canty Highland reel; It even vivifies the heel To skip and dance; Lifeless is he who canna feel Its influence." The Daft Days Robert Fergusson #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"Goes out, comes back-- the love life of a cat." Kobayashi Issa (Robert Hass, tr.) #BookWormSat (International Cat Day)

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"The red serpent is your dragon, but the white serpent is the dragon of the Saxons...At length, our people shall drive the Saxons beyond the sea." The boy Myrddin (Merlin) to King Vortigern Why the Red Dragon is the Emblem of Wales The Welsh Fairy Book #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"It has been said of Japanese food that it is a cuisine to be looked at rather than eaten. I would say that it is to be meditated upon, a kind of silent music evoked by lacquerware and the light of a candle flickering in the dark." In Praise of Shadows Jun'ichiro Tanizaki #BookWormSat

Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker, translators.

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"...many humans live two parallel lives; he will not only appear to be, but actually be, a different man in each of the circles he frequents." The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"By the well, before the gate stands a linden tree; in its shade I dreamt many a sweet dream." The Linden Tree Wilhelm Muller (tr. Richard Wigmore) #BookWormSat Schubert set the poem to music in his Winterreise.

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"'Thinking again?' the Duchess asked... 'I've a right to think,' said Alice sharply, for she was beginning to feel a little worried. 'Just about as much right' said the Duchess, 'as pigs have to fly...'" Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"Oh that it were with me As with the flower; Blooming on its own tree For butterfly and bee Its summer morns: That I might bloom mine hour A rose in spite of thorns." A Summer Wish Christina Rossetti #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"Lament, lament, old abbeys, The fairies lost command! They did but change priests' babies, But some have changed your land." Farewell, Rewards and Fairies Richard Corbet (1582-1635) #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

"Every year a hundred of the most beautiful maidens are sent to the Great Khan, who commits them to the charge of elderly ladies, (who) make the girls sleep with them to ascertain if they have sweet breath, and do not snore." The Travels of Marco Polo (Henry Yule, tr.) #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

"The parrot looking in the mirror sees itself, but not its teacher hid behind, And learns the speech of Man, the while it thinks A bird of its own sort is talking to it." The Blind Follower Rumi (R. A. Nicholson, tr.) #BookWormSat (Persian lit.)

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

"They bore it with staggering and sweating, but fell with the burden at length, Leaning down from the gem-studded saddle, I flung it five yards with my hand, With a sob for men waxing so weakly, a sob for the Fenians' old strength." The Wanderings of Oisin W. B. Yeats #BookWormSat

Oisin and Niamh
Illustration by Albert Herter 1899

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

@pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.net @lillieg.bsky.social @emoneconomist.bsky.social Oh brother! Get a good night's sleep everyone. This was a headache. Connections Puzzle #1073 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

"For the sake of a single poem, you must see many cities, many people and things, you must understand animals, must feel how birds fly, and know the gesture which small flowers make when they open in the morning." The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Rainer Maria Rilke #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

"Hard by the lilied Nile I saw A duskish river-dragon stretched along, The brown habergeon of his limbs enamelled With sanguine almandines and rainy pearl..." A Crocodile Thomas Lovell Beddoes #BookWormSat

Wilhelm Kuhnert
Illustration from Wildlife of the World
(habergeon= coat of mail. almandines=red to purple garnets)

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

"And from the flood of the wound a flower sprang, lilylike, more brilliant than the purples of Tyre. Then the god wept... Beauty dies; that is the source of creation." Hyacinth Louise Gluck #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Now that 1051 is gone, I can say I hated Reservoir Dogs and wouldn't call it a classic film. For today's: @martian-observer.net @pombalstoat.bsky.social @lillieg.bsky.social @callie99.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #1052 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

"...what troubles me so dreadfully is the question, what does the spectre mean?...What is it warning against? What is the danger? Where is the danger? Some dreadful calamity will happen." The Signal-Man Charles Dickens #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

"By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world." Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument April 19, 1836 Ralph Waldo Emerson #BookWormSat

Minuteman National Historical Park, Concord, Mass.
(No hard feelings, mates!)

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This word...this wordle... 🤦 Wordle 1,759 3/6 ⬜🟦⬜🟦🟦 ⬜🟦⬜🟧🟦 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 @martian-observer.net @pombalstoat.bsky.social @callie99.bsky.social It was a headscratcher.

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

"Conradin had been wont to chant his praises; tonight he asked a boon. 'Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.' The thing was not specified. As Sredni Vashtar was a god, he must be supposed to know." Sredni Vashtar Saki (H.H. Munro) #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

"Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit There is not even silence in the mountains But dry sterile thunder without rain There is not even solitude in the mountains But red sullen faces sneer and snarl From doors of mudcracked houses" The Waste Land T.S. Eliot #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; ...If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. ...And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks." Sonnet CXXX William Shakespeare #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

@markhanson62.bsky.social This one's for you. Wordle 1,743 3/6 🟧⬜🟧⬜🟧 🟧⬜🟧🟦🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

"On the quietest day there was a murmur in the forest, as though the trees were gently crying themselves to sleep, moaning a muted lullaby which turned the nights into a time of ceaseless whispering." Thérèse Desqueyroux François Mauriac (Gerard Hopkins, tr.) #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

@martian-observer.art @pombalstoat.bsky.social @callie99.bsky.social @lillieg.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #1011 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦😌

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

@pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @callie99.bsky.social @lillieg.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #1010 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

@pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @callie99.bsky.social Watch your step, guys! Connections Puzzle #1009 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

"On the sunny lawn it had not touched her, but now, with the fall of night, she was aware of it, as shadow called to shadow and the kingdom of darkness gathered power. Like a great whispering gallery, the whole house listened." The Decoy Algernon Blackwood #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@callie99.bsky.social Have you taken #glucosamine and had vivid dreams? Like sitting in a bathtub full of blood vivid? I stopped taking it after a month because my knees were no better. My dreams are now back to normal.😌

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

"Master said God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way..." Black Beauty Anna Sewell #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

@pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @callie99.bsky.social @lillieg.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #998 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪🤦

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Fear not, O players! @martian-observer.art @pombalstoat.bsky.social @callie99.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #997 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

"...if I wanted to study I would leap at my master's library with my eyes closed, then tug out the book to which I was clinging and peruse it, whatever its contents." The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr E. T. A. Hoffmann #BookWormSat (mischievous rogues)

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Raspberry noises😮‍💨 @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @callie99.bsky.social anybody else Connections Puzzle #991 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

@callie99.bsky.social Are you in New England? How's the blizzard up there? So far 15 inches here. It's blowing around, so hard to be sure.

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

"In Brueghel's Icarus: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the plowman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure..." Musée des Beaux Arts W. H. Auden #BookWormSat

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @lillieg.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #983 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

"Let bygones be bygones: Don't call me false, who owed not to be true; I'd rather answer 'No' to fifty Johns Than answer 'Yes' to you." "No, Thank You, John" Christina Rossetti #BookWormSat for Valentine's Day

Portrait of Christina Rossetti by her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

@pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @callie99.bsky.social @lillieg.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #974 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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blixy scrumpfer @ghobubo.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

"If she favors you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces-- and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper-- love her, love her, love her!" Great Expectations Charles Dickens #BookWormSat

Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham in the 1946 movie "Great Expectations"

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