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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 13h

He 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

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Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#Brontefest R to J "You must be tenacious of life."

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 15h

"...but in time, I tink you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you..." "It has struck nine, sir." C14 Jane Eyre #Brontefest Another taut scene.

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 14h

His 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

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Kasimine @kasimirzwei.bsky.social · 16h

Ostseegrüße 🤗 Habt einen schönen Abend alle 👋🏻

Meeresküste von einer Seebrücke aus, die Sonne geht hinter den Bäumen am Strand unter und spiegelt sich auf der bewegten Meeresoberfläche, in die Buhnen hineinragen. Federwolkenschicht.

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 16h

BRABANTIO. This accident is not unlike my dream: Belief of it oppresses me already. Light, I say, light! Act I s1 #Othello2026 accident: event 2/2

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 17h

RODERIGO 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)

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Two Winters Woods @2winterswoods.bsky.social · 17h

A fine day for a walk (yesterday, by D)

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Don “Dr Mabuse” Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 17h

“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.” - Charles #Bukowski

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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

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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

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Greg Kindall @gregkindall.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#MelvilleMonday everyone has the odd whale vertebrae sitting around, right? (I'm not sure how this came to be in the house, but my father was an occasional visitor of various Inupiat communities.)

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Nicka @nickalalala.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#klassikbuchclub Tag 1: "Nennt mich Ismael. Ein paar Jahre ist es her - unwichtig, wie lange genau -, da hatte ich wenig bis gar kein Geld im Beutel, und an Land reizte mich nichts Besonderes, und so dachte ich mir, [...]" 🐋 'Moby-Dick', Herman Melville 1851, dtv 2025 #buchbeginn #buchsky

Buchtitel: dunkelblau mit einer weißen nach unten abtauchenden Walfinne.

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

en route

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳 ! „Tudo vale a pena Se a alma não é pequena.“ Fernando Pessoa MENSAGEM Mar português

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Ustinische Semifee @ustinoff.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

I am convinced that it is as natural for a human being to swim as it is for a duck. Typee. 31 Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!

Eine Ente, gezeichnet von Pisanello ca. 1440

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Ustinoff auf Eis @ustinoff.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

What was the meaning or purpose of this custom, whether it was practiced merely as a diversion, or whether it was a religious exercise, a sort of family prayers, I never could discover. Typee. 31. Happy #MelvilleMonday , dear friends!

Zwei Steinfiguren, tanzend, vor einer Ziegelwand
Künstlerin: Eva Backofen
https://www.werkdatenbank.de/documents/obj/wdb_00006862

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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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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

Scrolled jaw. White whale sketch and mesmerizing blue spiral plate. Yes, drew it when nothing found that suited.

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends! Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳 “Ships in a Light Breeze” (detail) by Charles Brooking (1723-1759)

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Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#SundaySentence Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes and failures had been wiped clean by summer. Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

O silêncio é teu gémeo no Infinito. … Fernando Pessoa Novas Poesias Inéditas (1973) À NOITE

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Looking 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

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Kelly Rebar @kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Japanese #maple beside the house. #October #red

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In time of daffodils @themoonlookson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Paul Auster (The Brooklyn Follies) #SundaySentence “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.” .

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

As the leaves of trees are said to absorb all noxious qualities of the air, and to breathe forth a purer atmosphere, so it seems to me as if they drew from us all sordid and angry passions, and breathed forth peace and philanthropy. #SundaySentence Washington Irving Bracebridge Hall

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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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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Social climbers’ Autumn gossip Have a lovely Saturday 🍁❤️‍🔥❣️

Living red and dying gold leaves making their way along a diamond patterned wire fence.

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It 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

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

#brontefest C12 🖼️ Fritz Eichenberg „He had a dark face, with stern features and a heavy brow; his eyes and gathered eyebrows looked ireful and thwarted just now; he was past youth, but had not reached middle age; perhaps he might be thirty-five. I felt no fear of him, and but little shyness.“

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Suzanne the Slacker @suzannef.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“It was…a fine autumnal day, the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance.” Washington Irving #BookWormSat 🖼️ = View On The Catskill, Early Autumn - Thomas Cole

Painting of Catskill Creek one of Cole’s favorite subjects. Rolling hills in the background, house with smoking chimney, cut tree stump, and a wooden fence in foreground lush greenery throughout

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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

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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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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mrs. Fairfax tells Jane about Mr. Rochester

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

‘The feather from the ravens breast  Falls on the stubble lea The acorns near the old crows nest Fall pattering down the tree’ ~ Autumn, John Clare. 🍂 Tomorrow’s #BookWormSat embraces the season with autumn in literature. Bring all your fallen leaves and join us. 🍁

Raven perched on hickory branch with autumnal leaves and nuts, illustration by John James Audubon, 1827.

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“In what way is he peculiar?” “I don’t know—it is not easy to describe—nothing striking, but you feel it when he speaks to you; you cannot be always sure whether he is in jest or earnest, whether he is pleased or the contrary; you don’t thoroughly understand him, in short-” #Brontëfest Jane Eyre

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Moo Dog Press @moodogpress.com · 09/10/2026

Not peak color. Yet.

Connecticut colors and wetland below. Image: RR.

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemi.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

#BalzacTogether „Dans quelques années, un nom et un titre seront en France des richesses plus sûres que le talent. Vous pouvez ainsi tout avoir: esprit, noblesse et beauté, vous arriverez à tout. Ne soyez donc en ce moment libéral que pour vendre avec avantage votre royalisme.“

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"I understand this, that I am not at liberty to write as I think——" "Eh! what does that matter, so long as you turn an honest penny?" cried Lousteau. #BalzacTogether Lost Illusions

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John Muir @johnmuir.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A restless Friday...

A sandy beach meets a restless sea beneath a broad, cloud-filled sky with a small patch of blue showing through.

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

. . . now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils. #Brontëfest Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre C10

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Skittles @skittlesmom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Upper Falls of The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone.

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Don “Dr Mabuse” Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“ #Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a #book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means.” - #UmbertoEco

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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“To see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognise it as a photographic possibility – that’s what I’m interested in.” Stephen Shore.

A wooden table at an angle with two red chairs near a smoky grey/blue wall beside a pale yellow painted panel window seat. The direct sunlight cuts across the the table, seat, chairs & section of the wall in an angular pattern the rest in shadow.

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