katy moukakou
@princessekateri.bsky.social
‘Nothing deserves admiration except the mind’ ~ Seneca
Athens 💙🤍 Greece
Athens 💙🤍 Greece
Pinned
The Alps, this morning ✈️
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The Alps, this morning ✈️
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“The blue seems eternal”
Virginia Woolf
London ©️ Andrew Gifford
Virginia Woolf
London ©️ Andrew Gifford
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
“The blue seems eternal”
Virginia Woolf
London ©️ Andrew Gifford
Virginia Woolf
London ©️ Andrew Gifford
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Late Afternoon in Athens
November 2025
November 2025
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Late Afternoon in Athens
November 2025
November 2025
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
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a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.
#Tokarczuk25 #Flights
Transl #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #Flights
Transl #JenniferCroft
November 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.
#Tokarczuk25 #Flights
Transl #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #Flights
Transl #JenniferCroft
Reposted by katy moukakou
I would have been well suited to the intermingling of warp and weft, but there's no such thing as a portable loom. Weaving is an art of sedentary tribes. When I'm traveling I knit.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I would have been well suited to the intermingling of warp and weft, but there's no such thing as a portable loom. Weaving is an art of sedentary tribes. When I'm traveling I knit.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
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What we learned at university was that we are made up of defenses, of shields and armor, that we are cities whose architecture essentially comes down to walls, ramparts, strongholds: bunker states.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
What we learned at university was that we are made up of defenses, of shields and armor, that we are cities whose architecture essentially comes down to walls, ramparts, strongholds: bunker states.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
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The postulate of one personality to one person always struck me as overly minimalist.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
Translated by #JenniferCroft
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The postulate of one personality to one person always struck me as overly minimalist.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
Translated by #JenniferCroft
Reposted by katy moukakou
The book question: Would I rather read one than go to a party, or does it also depend on what kind of book it is and what kind of party?
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
Translated by #JenniferCroft
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The book question: Would I rather read one than go to a party, or does it also depend on what kind of book it is and what kind of party?
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
Translated by #JenniferCroft
Reposted by katy moukakou
And there is that other assumption, which is terribly dangerous- that we are constant, and that our reactions can be predicted.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
And there is that other assumption, which is terribly dangerous- that we are constant, and that our reactions can be predicted.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft
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The idea of the syndrome fits travel psychology like a glove. A syndrome is small, portable, not weighed down by theory, episodic. You can explain something with it and then discard it. A disposable instrument o cognition.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
Translated by #JenniferCroft
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The idea of the syndrome fits travel psychology like a glove. A syndrome is small, portable, not weighed down by theory, episodic. You can explain something with it and then discard it. A disposable instrument o cognition.
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
Translated by #JenniferCroft
#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights
Translated by #JenniferCroft
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Kate had, for her new friend's eyes, the extraordinary and attaching property of appearing at a given moment to show as a beautiful stranger, to cut her connections and lose her identity,
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Kate had, for her new friend's eyes, the extraordinary and attaching property of appearing at a given moment to show as a beautiful stranger, to cut her connections and lose her identity,
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
Reposted by katy moukakou
Reposted by katy moukakou
Noon
Light unblinking,
time empty of minutes,
a bird stopped short in air.
-Octavio Paz,
from "In Uxmal"
(tr. Muriel Rukeyser)
Light unblinking,
time empty of minutes,
a bird stopped short in air.
-Octavio Paz,
from "In Uxmal"
(tr. Muriel Rukeyser)
November 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Noon
Light unblinking,
time empty of minutes,
a bird stopped short in air.
-Octavio Paz,
from "In Uxmal"
(tr. Muriel Rukeyser)
Light unblinking,
time empty of minutes,
a bird stopped short in air.
-Octavio Paz,
from "In Uxmal"
(tr. Muriel Rukeyser)
Reposted by katy moukakou
“We turn our hearts into museums of the people that we love to keep them alive inside us.”
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“We turn our hearts into museums of the people that we love to keep them alive inside us.”
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“How do I forget the shape of your heart now that I know its vocabulary.” - I am so haunted, aren’t I.
November 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“How do I forget the shape of your heart now that I know its vocabulary.” - I am so haunted, aren’t I.
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19 novembro
up the hill
up the hill
November 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
19 novembro
up the hill
up the hill
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Reposted by katy moukakou
To quote famed Hawaiian navigator, Nainoa Thompson:
“Itʻs in the blackness, itʻs in the cloudiness, itʻs in the times that arenʻt easy that you grow, that you become the best.”
“Itʻs in the blackness, itʻs in the cloudiness, itʻs in the times that arenʻt easy that you grow, that you become the best.”
December 16, 2024 at 7:16 PM
To quote famed Hawaiian navigator, Nainoa Thompson:
“Itʻs in the blackness, itʻs in the cloudiness, itʻs in the times that arenʻt easy that you grow, that you become the best.”
“Itʻs in the blackness, itʻs in the cloudiness, itʻs in the times that arenʻt easy that you grow, that you become the best.”
Kea, Aegean
November☀️
November☀️
November 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Kea, Aegean
November☀️
November☀️
Late Afternoon in Athens
November 2025
November 2025
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Late Afternoon in Athens
November 2025
November 2025
Reposted by katy moukakou
"One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it."
– Paul Bowles
– Paul Bowles
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it."
– Paul Bowles
– Paul Bowles
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Snow trumpets blew.
Fear not November’s challenge bold.
We’ve books and friends,
And hearths that never can grow cold.
These make amends.
~ Alexander L. Fraser
~ Peter Brook
‘4PM - The Wood Filling Up with Snow’🪄
Fear not November’s challenge bold.
We’ve books and friends,
And hearths that never can grow cold.
These make amends.
~ Alexander L. Fraser
~ Peter Brook
‘4PM - The Wood Filling Up with Snow’🪄
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Snow trumpets blew.
Fear not November’s challenge bold.
We’ve books and friends,
And hearths that never can grow cold.
These make amends.
~ Alexander L. Fraser
~ Peter Brook
‘4PM - The Wood Filling Up with Snow’🪄
Fear not November’s challenge bold.
We’ve books and friends,
And hearths that never can grow cold.
These make amends.
~ Alexander L. Fraser
~ Peter Brook
‘4PM - The Wood Filling Up with Snow’🪄
Reposted by katy moukakou
Thought id share my views of the Northern Lights taken just now in Chicago
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Thought id share my views of the Northern Lights taken just now in Chicago
Reposted by katy moukakou
We have discovered the antidote to Elon Musk's tyranny—his truest nemesis.
First of Her Name, Queen of the Bookstores and Libraries, Daughter of the Literature Department and Humanities, The Breaker of Billionaires...
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social
lithub.com/elon-musk-ge...
First of Her Name, Queen of the Bookstores and Libraries, Daughter of the Literature Department and Humanities, The Breaker of Billionaires...
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social
lithub.com/elon-musk-ge...
Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates.
Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…
lithub.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
We have discovered the antidote to Elon Musk's tyranny—his truest nemesis.
First of Her Name, Queen of the Bookstores and Libraries, Daughter of the Literature Department and Humanities, The Breaker of Billionaires...
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social
lithub.com/elon-musk-ge...
First of Her Name, Queen of the Bookstores and Libraries, Daughter of the Literature Department and Humanities, The Breaker of Billionaires...
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social
lithub.com/elon-musk-ge...