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The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. John Keats #bookbirds 📚🐦 💙
Reading: AnActOfSharedSolitude https://readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com/
Reading: AnActOfSharedSolitude https://readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com/
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#Tokarczuk25
#Flights
SAYING
„Sway, go on, move. That's the only way to get away from him. He who rules the world has no power over movement and knows that our body in motion is holy, and only then can you escape him, once you ve taken off. He reigns over all that is still and frozen,
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#Flights
SAYING
„Sway, go on, move. That's the only way to get away from him. He who rules the world has no power over movement and knows that our body in motion is holy, and only then can you escape him, once you ve taken off. He reigns over all that is still and frozen,
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November 29, 2025 at 7:22 AM
#Tokarczuk25
#Flights
SAYING
„Sway, go on, move. That's the only way to get away from him. He who rules the world has no power over movement and knows that our body in motion is holy, and only then can you escape him, once you ve taken off. He reigns over all that is still and frozen,
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#Flights
SAYING
„Sway, go on, move. That's the only way to get away from him. He who rules the world has no power over movement and knows that our body in motion is holy, and only then can you escape him, once you ve taken off. He reigns over all that is still and frozen,
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#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…a wanderer who had reached the edge of the world…now looking out, beyond the Network…he sees the stars and planets, spread out evenly across the firmament…hears the music of the spheres.
We've been denied that gift…Beyond the Network there is silence.
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…a wanderer who had reached the edge of the world…now looking out, beyond the Network…he sees the stars and planets, spread out evenly across the firmament…hears the music of the spheres.
We've been denied that gift…Beyond the Network there is silence.
November 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…a wanderer who had reached the edge of the world…now looking out, beyond the Network…he sees the stars and planets, spread out evenly across the firmament…hears the music of the spheres.
We've been denied that gift…Beyond the Network there is silence.
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
…a wanderer who had reached the edge of the world…now looking out, beyond the Network…he sees the stars and planets, spread out evenly across the firmament…hears the music of the spheres.
We've been denied that gift…Beyond the Network there is silence.
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“I was far from pleased to be encountering compatriots in foreign lands” (174).
Me, too. Why?
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
Me, too. Why?
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
November 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“I was far from pleased to be encountering compatriots in foreign lands” (174).
Me, too. Why?
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
Me, too. Why?
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
Escorted by several carriages, Chopin's heart did ultimately make it back to Warsaw.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
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#FryderykSzopen
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
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#FryderykSzopen
November 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Escorted by several carriages, Chopin's heart did ultimately make it back to Warsaw.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
culture.pl/en/article/c...
#FryderykSzopen
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
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#FryderykSzopen
And that furthermore, whenever he would stand at the foot of a hill called Ruth, he would get the sense she hadn't died at all, that she was right here, just differently. Her life insurance was able to cover the costs of his travels.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
November 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
And that furthermore, whenever he would stand at the foot of a hill called Ruth, he would get the sense she hadn't died at all, that she was right here, just differently. Her life insurance was able to cover the costs of his travels.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
In the last few years she has realized that all you have to do to become invisible is be a woman of a certain age, without any outstanding features: it's automatic.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
In the last few years she has realized that all you have to do to become invisible is be a woman of a certain age, without any outstanding features: it's automatic.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
it was horrendously difficult for him to write even just clichés: "You know that here there can be no question of anything of the kind. Our tradition's not conducive to that line of thought, and that's exacerbatedfurther by the innate disinclination to any type of reflection
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
it was horrendously difficult for him to write even just clichés: "You know that here there can be no question of anything of the kind. Our tradition's not conducive to that line of thought, and that's exacerbatedfurther by the innate disinclination to any type of reflection
But then there are other reusable ones, testaments not to events but to whole processes:a child's vaccination booklet, student ID like a tiny passport, pages half filled with stamps from each term,her school diploma,certificate of completion from dressmaking course.
#Tokarczuk25
#Tokarczuk25
November 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
But then there are other reusable ones, testaments not to events but to whole processes:a child's vaccination booklet, student ID like a tiny passport, pages half filled with stamps from each term,her school diploma,certificate of completion from dressmaking course.
#Tokarczuk25
#Tokarczuk25
So it would appear that memory is a drawer stuffed with papers-some of them are totally useless, those one-time documents like dry-cleaning tickets and the proofs of purchase of winter boots or a toaster long since gone. #Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
November 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
So it would appear that memory is a drawer stuffed with papers-some of them are totally useless, those one-time documents like dry-cleaning tickets and the proofs of purchase of winter boots or a toaster long since gone. #Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
The book she would now open over her lap was-she remembers-a book of Malczewski. She opens it to the page where the pretty young woman with a scythe is calmly and lovingly shutting the eyes of the old man who kneels before her.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
November 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The book she would now open over her lap was-she remembers-a book of Malczewski. She opens it to the page where the pretty young woman with a scythe is calmly and lovingly shutting the eyes of the old man who kneels before her.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
If you're not on the internet, aImost as though you don't exist at all. You have to have at least one little mention, even if it's just in a list of school alumni.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
November 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
If you're not on the internet, aImost as though you don't exist at all. You have to have at least one little mention, even if it's just in a list of school alumni.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
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Congratulations to Omar El Akkad for winning the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction! ICYMI: Omar's appearance on the show was one of the great all-time conversations so far.
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House
In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Congratulations to Omar El Akkad for winning the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction! ICYMI: Omar's appearance on the show was one of the great all-time conversations so far.
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
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November 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
It said that most likely in the remotest past, in the primeval ocean, mitochondria were creatures in their own right before they were intercepted by other single-cell organisms and forced, for the remainder of history, into laboring on behalf of their hosts…
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
It said that most likely in the remotest past, in the primeval ocean, mitochondria were creatures in their own right before they were intercepted by other single-cell organisms and forced, for the remainder of history, into laboring on behalf of their hosts…
November 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
#Flights
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
It said that most likely in the remotest past, in the primeval ocean, mitochondria were creatures in their own right before they were intercepted by other single-cell organisms and forced, for the remainder of history, into laboring on behalf of their hosts…
#OlgaTokarczuk
#Tokarczuk25
It said that most likely in the remotest past, in the primeval ocean, mitochondria were creatures in their own right before they were intercepted by other single-cell organisms and forced, for the remainder of history, into laboring on behalf of their hosts…
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#Flights
#Tokarczuk25
THE TSAR'S COLLECTION
„… he confirmed his suspicions that some of the cargo had been damaged. Some dozen or so of the hundreds of jars they were transporting had been opened, and their liquid contents, a strong brandy, drunk till the last drop.
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#Tokarczuk25
THE TSAR'S COLLECTION
„… he confirmed his suspicions that some of the cargo had been damaged. Some dozen or so of the hundreds of jars they were transporting had been opened, and their liquid contents, a strong brandy, drunk till the last drop.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
#Flights
#Tokarczuk25
THE TSAR'S COLLECTION
„… he confirmed his suspicions that some of the cargo had been damaged. Some dozen or so of the hundreds of jars they were transporting had been opened, and their liquid contents, a strong brandy, drunk till the last drop.
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#Tokarczuk25
THE TSAR'S COLLECTION
„… he confirmed his suspicions that some of the cargo had been damaged. Some dozen or so of the hundreds of jars they were transporting had been opened, and their liquid contents, a strong brandy, drunk till the last drop.
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Thomas Cook and James Cook: two of the chefs who cooked up our reality.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Thomas Cook and James Cook: two of the chefs who cooked up our reality.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
this Cook had an idea-it now seems So strange that no one had ever thought of it before, but that is of course the famous simplicity of brilliant ideas- -namely, to rent a railway car to transport all the travelers together on the next trip.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
this Cook had an idea-it now seems So strange that no one had ever thought of it before, but that is of course the famous simplicity of brilliant ideas- -namely, to rent a railway car to transport all the travelers together on the next trip.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
New Zealand was, it seems, the last land we invented.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
New Zealand was, it seems, the last land we invented.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
Give me back my father's body, so that I may bury him. I will follow You,my Lord, like a voice from the darkness, even when I die I will never let You be, never cease to whisper.
Josefine Soliman von Feuchtersleben
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated #JenniferCroft
Josefine Soliman von Feuchtersleben
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated #JenniferCroft
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Give me back my father's body, so that I may bury him. I will follow You,my Lord, like a voice from the darkness, even when I die I will never let You be, never cease to whisper.
Josefine Soliman von Feuchtersleben
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated #JenniferCroft
Josefine Soliman von Feuchtersleben
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated #JenniferCroft
The ruler who sets up taxes has his sway over what his subjects will eat, what they shall sleep on, and whether they'll wear linen or silk.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The ruler who sets up taxes has his sway over what his subjects will eat, what they shall sleep on, and whether they'll wear linen or silk.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
Would Your Majesty stuff a courtier if he were white? A person of the absolute lowest position has the right to a funeral. By refusing my father that right, are You then denying his very humanity?
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Would Your Majesty stuff a courtier if he were white? A person of the absolute lowest position has the right to a funeral. By refusing my father that right, are You then denying his very humanity?
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
What they want is to pin down the world with the aid of bar codes, labeling all things, letting it be known that everything is commodity, that this is how much it will cost you.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
What they want is to pin down the world with the aid of bar codes, labeling all things, letting it be known that everything is commodity, that this is how much it will cost you.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
What they want is to create a frozen order, to falsify time's passage.They want for the days to repeat themselves, unchanging; they want to build a big machine where every creature will be forced to take its place and carry out false actions.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
What they want is to create a frozen order, to falsify time's passage.They want for the days to repeat themselves, unchanging; they want to build a big machine where every creature will be forced to take its place and carry out false actions.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
This is why tyrants of all stripes, infernal servants, have such deep-seated hatred for the nomads--this is why they persecute the Gypsies and the Jews, and why they force all free peoples to settle, assigning the addresses that serve as our sentences.
#Tokarczuk25 #Flights
#Tokarczuk25 #Flights
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This is why tyrants of all stripes, infernal servants, have such deep-seated hatred for the nomads--this is why they persecute the Gypsies and the Jews, and why they force all free peoples to settle, assigning the addresses that serve as our sentences.
#Tokarczuk25 #Flights
#Tokarczuk25 #Flights
Whoever pauses will be petrified; whoever stops, pinned like an insect, his heart pierced by wooden needle, his hands and feet drilled through and pinned into the threshold and the ceiling.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Whoever pauses will be petrified; whoever stops, pinned like an insect, his heart pierced by wooden needle, his hands and feet drilled through and pinned into the threshold and the ceiling.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft