David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 1h. . . a brief examination convinced me that the contents were less taking than the title: “Rasselas” looked dull to my trifling taste; I saw nothing about fairies, nothing about genii; no bright variety seemed spread over the closely-printed pages. #Brontëfest Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre, C5 030
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 12h„… I was still hungry. Half an hour's recreation succeeded, then study; then the glass of water and the piece of oat-cake, prayers, and bed. Such was my first day at Lowood.“ #brontefest Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre C5 wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg 051
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 12hPETRUCHIO What, is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful? Or is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye? #TheShrew2026 IV,3,171-174 Arden 1981 021
David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 2hBIONDELLO I knew a wench married in an afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to stuff a rabbit; and so may you, sir: and so adieu, sir. #TheShrew2026 Act IV s4 (95-97) 040
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Rüm Hart @luvundlee.bsky.social · 3hFallende Blätter 🍂 Falling leaves #eastcoastkin #eck #scape #forestfriday #greensat 512431
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦emi.ju liest @emi-ju.bsky.social · 3hAnfang Oktober und immer noch draußen sitzen zum Lesen ☕️📖🍂 192
David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 20hI’ve written a few lines for her. I talk about her eyes and the endless Mexican horizon, about abandoned churches and mirages over the roads that lead to the border. I don’t know why, but somehow I got the idea that Rosario is from Veracruz or Tabasco, possibly even Yucatán. Roberto Bolaño 0122
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Benedict Sangster @benedictsangster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026'Of course he was a clever young man, but how clever, that was the question. Clever enough to recognize the truth when he heard it? Hardly anybody was clever enough for that.' Jean Rhys - Quartet 071
David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 23hSomething of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. #Brontëfest (Mrs. Reed gets an earful) Jane Eyre, C4 0101
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦buchpost @buchpost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Die #TürzumAbend aus #Herborn. Schön hölzern. 0101
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 23h"For years he knows not the land; so that when he comes to it at last, it smells like another world, more strangely than the moon would to an Earthsman." Moby-Dick, Ch. 14 091
David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Honorable resolution struggled with temptation and swayed him now this way, now that. #BalzacTogether Lost Illusions 0121
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026„Vous avez changé mon billon en louis d'or.“ #BalzacTogether ILLUSIONS PERDUES Un grand homme de province à Paris 031
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Puck @puckbethy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026'Warten auf Godot' #FotoVorschlag 416118
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Two Winters Woods @2winterswoods.bsky.social · 30/09/2026September 30th 0354
David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026KATHARINA My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, Or else my heart concealing it will break; And rather than it shall, I will be free Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words. #TheShrew2026 Act IV s3 (77-80) 0103
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦farsouthproject @farsouthproject.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Buona notte. Sogni d'oro... 071
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold ― William Carlos Williams, 'This Is Just to Say'' #Poetry 1161
David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What a consternation of soul was mine that dreary afternoon! How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection! #brontefest Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre 1255
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026„She's an underhand little thing: I never saw a girl of her age with so much cover.“ #brontefest Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg 2131
David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026BIANCA And may you prove, sir, master of your art! #TheShrew2026 Act IV s2 (9) 0101
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026LUCENTIO I read that I profess, „The Art to Love“. #TheShrew2026 IV,2,8 Arden 1981 OVID ARS AMATORIA . Book one: to show a man how to find a woman . Book two: how to keep her . Book three: gives women advice on how to win and keep the love of a man 062
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026‘If you suddenly and unexpected feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.’ — Mary Oliver writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity 0243
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Rüm Hart @luvundlee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Der Geruch von Salz und frischer Erde. 🌊 The smell of salt and fresh earth. #eastcoastkin #tidesouttuesday #eck #bluetue #coloraday 1134170
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Ustinische Sümpfe @ustinoff.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth remains, that mouth and purse must be filled. The Confidence-Man. 37. Happy #MelvilleMonday , dear friends! 0173
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026 „Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever profoundly interesting“ #brontefest Charlotte Brontë #JaneEyre [1] wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg 0152
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦CelticStoic(Dan) 🏴 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#MelvilleMonday "It is not down in any map; true places never are." Moby-Dick, Ch. 12 Sunburst at Sea by Lovell Birge Harrison, 1913. 1274
David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends! Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳 San Diego skyline and Maritime Museum 📷 by SDMM 0215
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳 ! MORITAT. Und der Haifisch, der hat Zähne, Und die trägt er im Gesicht DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER von Bertolt Brecht Schauspielhaus Zürich 162
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass In our dry cellar ... T.S.Eliot born on this day, 1888 #BookSky 1203
David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Disbelief was the line of travel that led to clarity of thought & purpose. Or was this simply another form of superstition? She wanted to trust in the foreland processes of the natural world, this only, perceptible reality and scientific endeavor, men and women alone on earth. DeLillo / Falling Man 0111
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Don DeLillo #Caturday 0153
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026PETRUCHIO She is my goods, my chattels, she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing, And here she stands. Touch her whoever dare! #TheShrew2026 III,2,229-232 1+ 171
David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026PETRUCHIO Obey the bride, you that attend on her; Go to the feast, revel and domineer, Carouse full measure to her maidenhead, Be mad and merry, or go hang yourselves: But for my bonny Kate, she must with me. #TheShrew2026 Act III s2 (214-18) 081
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Simon T. @sitobin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026September shadow. San Jose. 0293
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Rüm Hart @luvundlee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Wo die Blätter rauschen und die Möwen rufen. 🍃 Where the leaves rustle and the gulls call. #eastcoastkin #forestfriday #scape #eck #trees 1232565
David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"I know nothing of the love that wallows in luxury and wine and sensual pleasure," [Lucien] said within himself. "I have lived more with ideas than with realities.” #BalzacTogether Lost Illusions 0142
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026„J'ai plus encore vécu par la Pensée que par le Fait. Un homme qui veut tout peindre doit tout connaître.“ #BalzacTogether ILLUSIONS PERDUES Un grand homme de province à Paris 052
Reposted by David Reader 🐳📚🐦Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026PETRUCHIO To me she's married, not unto my clothes. Could I repair what she will wear in me As I can change these poor accoutrements, 'Twere well for Kate and better for myself. #TheShrew2026 III,2,116-119 041
David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026TRANIO Upon my life, Petruchio means but well, Whatever fortune stays him from his word: Though he be blunt, I know him passing wise; Though he be merry, yet withal he’s honest. #TheShrew2026 Act III s2 (22-25) 0101
