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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"It was the first day of June...Every green was young, every pore was open...the landscape being all health and colour. God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town." 📗 Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd 🎨 John Constable #BookWormSat #rurality

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The instinctive act of humankind was to stand and listen, and learn how the trees on the right and the trees on the left wailed or chaunted to each other in the regular antiphonies of a cathedral choir." 📗Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd #BookWormSat #rurality

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mary Oliver - The Summer Day poets.org/poem/summer-...

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the feral amnesia Dionne Brand, XV, thirsty

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All the hope gone hard. That is a city.
The blind houses, the cramped dirt, the broken air, the sweet ugliness, the blissful and tortured flowers, the misguided clothing, the bricked lies the steel lies, all the lies seeping from flesh falling in rain and snow, the weeping buses, the plastic throats, the perfumed garbage, the needled sky, the smogged oxygen, the deathly clerical gentlemen cleaning their fingernails at the stock exchange, the dingy hearts in the newsrooms, that is a city, the feral amnesia of us all

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Last night I sat up late. The dog wheezed. There were throbs like distant music, which may have been my heart. Then I split into predicate & object. I observed me, & me divided in turn into memory, hope, fantasy, motions taken, not taken, until my microcosm’s dense singularity sucked everything back

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

David with the head of Goliath, 1610, by Caravaggio. Boys messing with men's heads du jour, indeed. And today is Caravaggio's birthday.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Born on this day in 1571, in Milan, the incomparably brilliant Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Here (more or less) by himself. Shocked at being dead.

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rodrigo silveira @rodrigosilveira.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Grada Kilomba

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Thomas Aurelius Belz @aurelius.wsocial.eu · 27/09/2026

J. S. Bachs Abberufung und Heimgang. Es erklingt mehrfach die Tonfolge: B-A-C-H "Ich bin im Himmel angeschrieben, ich bin ein Kind der Seligkeit. Was kann die Sünde mich betrüben und alles Leiden dieser Zeit? Ich weiss, dass ich von Anbeginn, in Christo auserwählet bin." Salomo Franck

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Glenn Gould - Contrapunctus XIV Die Kunst der Fuge

YouTube video by Diego Alberto Cobos Zavala

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

FINALLY some good news, everybody

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

While job interviews are, somewhat incredibly, under discussion, here's the best job APPLICATION I know www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/z/jo...

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The Job Application, by Robert Walser

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Mathieu Duplay 🌈 @mathieuduplay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jean-Philippe Rameau was born #OTD in 1683, and this certainly counts as one of the most extraordinary performances of his music in recent years. The girl in the gold lamé skirt and boots is none other than Sabine Devieilhe.

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Les Indes Galantes - Danse du Grand Calumet de la Paix

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Rorschach, anybody? I'll go first:

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ever wondered what became of the March Hare? ⬇️ "He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger - and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes. He only does them when he's happy. His name is Haigha." (He pronounced it so as to rhyme with "mayor") 📕L. Carroll, Through the Looking Glass #BookWormSat #rabbits&hares

Haigha offering the grumpy King a sandwich out of his bag. Alice looking on perplexed.

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On this the White Rabbit blew three blasts of trumpet. "The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer's day..." 📕Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustr. by John Tenniel #BookWormSat #rabbits&hares

The White Rabbit in full Herald pomp blowing the trumpet and holding a rolled and sealed message

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Andy Warhol ~ Rorschach (1984, acrylic on canvas) #AndyWarhol #PopArt

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"It was the *best* butter," the March Hare meekly replied. 📕 Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by John Tenniel #BookWormSat #rabbits&hares

March Hare and Mad Hatter in murderous mode, drowning the Dormouse in the teapot

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!" 📕 Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustr. by John Tenniel #BookWormSat #rabbits&hares

The White Rabbit in typical White Rabbit pose.

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Leah Umansky

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Culture derives from cultivate. He knows.

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The AI mess, or: who'd have thought we'd really have a Sorcerer's Apprentice situation a la Goethe? How prophetic of him, btw. The sad difference to today: Johann Wolfgang imagined a happy ending.

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Babel Web Anthology :: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Der Zauberlehrling in English)

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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Numbering... The 1st printing of @wildtwin.bsky.social's new novella Latchkey is an edition of 350 hand-numbered copies printed locally in Berlin. Official release date: 29.9.26. Pre-orderable TODAY at: www.sacredparasite.com

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm not on here much at the moment for looking after my brain reasons. But I am also looking for freelance work! So if anybody needs proofreading, editorial services - including developmental editing - creative writing mentoring or anything adjacent thereof, I am available! stefmowords[at]gmail.com

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Other Services | Stefan Mohamed

Stefan Mohamed's creative writing services, from professional editing and proofreading to lecturing and tutoring.

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lichtzwang.bsky.social @lichtzwang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ein Schatten bin ich ferne finsteren Dörfern. Gottes Schweigen Trank ich aus dem Brunnen des Hains. Georg Trakl

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 22/09/2026

Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's list. thebookerprizes.com/bp2026

The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist in full:

The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
The Disappearers by Marlon James
Black Bag by Luke Kennard
May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
John of John by Douglas Stuart

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My God, I just remembered that we die. But - but me too?! (Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star)

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rodrigo silveira @rodrigosilveira.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

François Morellet

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Pol Niuman @pol-niuman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Henri Matisse Festival de las Flores en Niza (1923)

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When you're not in two but in four to five minds

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

TY!

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Lewis Carroll Bot @lewis-carroll-bot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

But four young Oysters hurried up, All eager for the treat: Their coats were brushed, their faces washed, Their shoes were clean and neat — And this was odd, because, you know, They hadn't any feet.

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Watching the enormous blades (~100m?)of wind turbines being transported through crowded port infrastructure, threatening to flatten this and that in their path, is the closest I'll ever get to understanding how Godzilla must've felt (cartoon: @grickle.bsky.social)

Godzilla, replanting the city after having flattened it first.

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Oblique Strategies @obliquestrategies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Honor thy error as a hidden intention

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Will be interesting to read. The Lowe-Porter translations have the virtues - and faults - of sounding a bit like Thomas Mann himself speaking English, trying to make himself satisfactorily understood - while perhaps not caring too much if he was understood - in an American drugstore between the wars

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Years ago, I read The Magic Mountain & saw it as a network of ironies about how art & societal seclusion dramatise the indeterminacy of being & time but also demonstrate, if pursued as mere disengagements, the risks of isolation. Today I just want to follow Hans Castorp up the mountain & stay there

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Judy @judy-inthecloud.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Inner emigration" is a great term for how some people cope with the hate around them. I learned it from the Ian Buruma's book "Stay Alive". He attributes it to Berlin novelist Frank Thiess, but truly anybody who tries to withstand a fury of filth can appreciate the honesty of the phrase. #books

cover image from Ian Buruma's book "Stay Alive, Berlin 1939-1945" showing German civilians in Berlin running from soldIers and bombs at the end of WW2

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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not another one... Yet another app?! (today my new scales asked me to install AN APP. What?!) And no, I'm not Sophia Loren. She just does stony-faced- exasperated so much better than me.

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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I Dreamed In The Cities At Night Remco Campert www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poe...

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