Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 25mselbst’ zu umschreiben wäre — also kann man zwar gemein, brutal und selbstsüchtig sein, aber trotzdem ‚honest’; eine Bedeutung, mit der im Text ironisch gespielt wird.“ Anmerkungen zum Text Frank Günther 2 000 0
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 25m#Othello2026 I,3,291-292 OTHELLO Honest Iago, My Desdemona must I leave to thee. „Ein leitmotivisches Wort … ist das Wort ‚honest‘, das immer wieder verwendet wird. Es konnte sowohl ‚ehrenwert’ und ‚ehrlich‘ bedeuten, zum anderen aber einen Sinn haben, der etwa mit ‚ehrlich vor sich 100 1
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 33m„Les raisons qui me font agir sont tirées d'un ordre de pensées supérieur, la fin justifiera tout, dit Lucien.” #BalzacTogether ILLUSIONS PERDUES Un grand homme de province à Paris Benjamin Voisin en Lucien de Rubempré dans ‘Illusions perdues’ 📷 Gaumont 000 0
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 6hA few thoughts on the translation: -Power of calculation implies manipulative bent, which is important. -I think poets are stand-in for anyone artistic. -'Le sceau' is more than a mere mark but almost an unique seal of a person or a stamp. While I think mark reads nicely... #balzactogether 1 of 2 121 2
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 22hDUKE When remedies are past the griefs are ended By seeing the worst which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. #Othello2026 I,3,200 ff 041 4
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 17/10/2026“I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me . . . I must, then, repeat continually that we are for ever sundered:—and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.” #Brontëfest Jane Eyre C17 Charlotte Brontë 1102 10
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 22h„I compared him with his guests. What was the gallant grace of the Lynns, the languid elegance of Lord Ingram, — even the military distinction of Colonel Dent, contrasted with his look of native pith and genuine power?” #brontefest Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre C17 041 4
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 17/10/2026#Othello2026 Othello: And till she come, as truly as to heaven I do confess the vices of my blood So justly to your grave ears I’ll present How I did thrive in this fair lady’s love And she in mine. (I.3.139-143) 041 4
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026ILLUSIONS PERDUES Un grand homme de province à Paris Illustration von Adolphe Lalauze zu „Der Sandmann“ von E.T.A. Hoffmann Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 040 4
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026#BalzacTogether „Aucun des personnages introduits dans les romans d'Hoffmann, aucun des sinistres avares de Walter Scott ne peut être comparé à ce que la nature sociale et parisienne s'était permis de créer en cet homme, si toutefois Samanon est un homme.“ 170 7
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026#Othello2026 I,3,139-144 OTHELLO …of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak—such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders. 041 4
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 15/10/2026OTHELLO Rude am I in my speech, And little blest with the soft phrase of peace . . . And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. #Othello2026 Act I s3 (81-89) 181 8
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 16/10/2026“So I propose to do another turn of 'chantage.'" "'Chantage' seems to mean your money or your life?" "It is better than that," said Lousteau; "it is your money or your character.” #BalzacTogether Lost Illusions 182 8
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 16/10/2026And while she broke the seal and perused the document, I went on taking my coffee (we were at breakfast): . . . Why my hand shook, and why I involuntarily spilt half the contents of my cup into my saucer, I did not choose to consider. #Brontëfest Jane Eyre C17 Charlotte Brontë 0121 12
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026her laugh was satirical, and so was the habitual expression of her arched and haughty lip.” Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre C17 wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg 2 150 5
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026#brontefest „The noble bust, the sloping shoulders, the graceful neck, the dark eyes and black ringlets were all there; — but her face? Her face was like her mother's; a youthful unfurrowed likeness: the same low brow, the same high features, the same pride … 1 1101 10
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 15/10/2026It little mattered whether my curiosity irritated him; I knew the pleasure of vexing and soothing him by turns; it was one I chiefly delighted in, and a sure instinct always prevented me from going too far; . . . #Brontëfest Jane Eyre C16 Charlotte Brontë 072 7
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 16/10/2026week 12 of #balzactogether starts tomorrow! 181 8
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026„Mais, le chantage, c'est la bourse ou la vie?” ”Bien mieux, dit Lousteau. C'est la bourse ou l'honneur.“ #BalzacTogether ILLUSIONS PERDUES Un grand homme de province à Paris 051 5
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Since that evening of his introduction to the Wooden Galleries, he had been paid for many an article, and gambled away the money along with the desire to write. #BalzacTogether Lost Illusions 0111 11
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶Alison @alisonjaye.bsky.social · 15/10/2026A moment of levity “You can guess, Lucien, that our publishers had eyes like saucers…By the way, do you have any saucers left?” #balzactogether 051 5
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026„… it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.” #brontefest Jane Eyre C16 0142 14
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 14/10/2026“I wish to be a better man than I have been, than I am; as Job’s leviathan broke the spear, the dart, and the habergeon, hindrances which others count as iron and brass, I will esteem but straw and rotten wood.” - Rochester #Brontëfest Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre 0102 10
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 14/10/2026 He would not think of the morrow. … his so-called friends were leading the same life, earning money easily by writing publishers' prospectuses and articles paid for by speculators; all of them lived beyond their incomes, none of them thought seriously of the future. #BalzacTogether Lost Illusions 091 9
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026#Othello2026 I,3,99-103 BRABANTIO It is a judgement maimed and most imperfect That will confess perfection so could err Against all rules of nature, and must be driven To find out practices of cunning hell Why this should be. 062 6
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026„On fait sauter ses livres sur la couverture jusqu'à ce qu'ils deviennent célèbres, et l'on est alors bien plus grand par les œuvres qu'on ne fait pas que par celles qu'on a faites. Le ‘sous presse’ est l’hypothèque littéraire.” #BalzacTogether ILLUSIONS PERDUES Un grand homme de province à Paris 062 6
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026🙏 It was a wonderful trip, Lisa —but I'm glad to be back with my books ! 120 2
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026„La puissance du calcul au milieu des complications de la vie est le sceau des grandes volontés que les poètes, les gens faibles ou purement spirituels ne contrefont jamais.“ 📚😍 240 4
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026#Othello2026 I,2,26-28 OTHELLO I would not my unhoused free condition Put into circumscription and confine For the seas‘ worth. Ye charte of true locations of sunken vessels American Geographical Society Library Digital Map 192 9
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026„You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love.“ #brontefest Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre C15 wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg 1122 12
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶Moritz Ernst Jacob 📯 @hallfiry.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Hat zufällig jemand ein Exemplar von Fritz Herdi: "Heiteres aus feldgrauem Dienst" (1985), das er mir verkaufen oder scannen würde? Es ist das einzige Wörterbuch der Soldatensprache, das mir meines Wissens noch fehlt. Gerne teilen. 11112 12
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026„L'intrigue est d'ailleurs supérieure au talent: de rien, elle fait quelque chose; tandis que la plupart du temps les immenses ressources du talent ne servent qu'à faire le malheur de l‘homme.“ #BalzacTogether ILLUSIONS PERDUES Un grand homme de province à Paris 042 4
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 13/10/2026RODERIGO Your daughter, if you have not given her leave, I say again, hath made a gross revolt, Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes, In an extravagant and wheeling stranger Of here and everywhere. #Othello2026 Act I s1 (133-37) 071 7
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 13/10/2026His changes of mood did not offend me, because I saw that I had nothing to do with their alternation; the ebb and flow depended on causes quite disconnected with me. “I am disposed to be gregarious and communicative to-night” #Brontëfest R tries to reveal himself to J Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre 081 8
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 13/10/2026He said that he was loved for his own sake; he said a good many foolish things that a man will say when he is smitten with a tender passion, and thought the while that he was doing a clever thing. #BalzacTogether Lost Illusions 1111 11
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 13/10/2026#Brontefest R to J "You must be tenacious of life." 093 9
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026#brontefest Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre C13 „And you felt self-satisfied with the result of your ardent labours?“ „Far from it. I was tormented by the contrast between my ideas and my handi-work: in each case I had imagined something which I was quite powerless to realise." 080 8
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026“. . . you have secured the shadow of your thought; but no more, probably. You had not enough of the artist’s skill and science to give it full being: yet the drawings are, for a school-girl, peculiar. As to the thoughts, they are elfish.” #Brontëfest Rochester judges Jane’s “Gothic” watercolors 1111 11
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026. . . he was swept away by an irresistible current into a vortex of dissipation and easy work. He no longer thought of the future. . . . His transition to the estate of dandy swiftly followed. #BalzacTogether Lost Illusions 0121 12
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026treibt. In Othello bereitet ein einzelnes kleines Wort erhebliche Schwierigkeiten: ‚the Moor‘.“ Aus der Übersetzerwerkstatt Frank Günther 3 060 6
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026„Jedes Stück von Shakespeare wirft beim Übersetzen ganz spezifische Probleme auf: manchmal sind es formale Eigenheiten wie Reim und Vers, manchmal ist es eine dichtgedrängte, verknäulte, dunkle Sprache, manchmal ist es Shakespeares Vorliebe für Wortspiele, die den Übersetzer zur Verzweiflung 2 261 6
Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026#Othello2026 I,1,38-40 IAGO be judge yourself Whether I in any just term am affined To love the Moor. New Penguin Shakespeare-Ausgabe, London 1968 1 160 6
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026un bon conseil pour les ecrivains jeunes! #BalzacTogether 031 3
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Looking out over the world of letters and of men, it seemed to him that he might go to and fro as lord of it all. Sober reflection never entered his romantic head unless it was driven in by the pressure of adversity, and just now the present held not a care for him. #BalzacTogether Lost Illusions 0111 11
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. #Brontëfest Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre C12 0101 10
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026"Paris is a queer place," said Lucien; it seemed to him that he saw self-interest squatting in every corner. #BalzacTogether Lost Illusions 1112 11
Reposted by Nemi 📚🎶Moo Dog Press @moodogpress.com · 12/10/2026“…and magnifying as it rose, till it turned, and then there were plainly revealed two long crooked rows of white, glistening teeth, floating up from the undiscoverable bottom. It was Moby Dick’s open mouth and scrolled jaw…” #MelvilleMonday 0204 20
