David Reader 🐳📚🐦
@thepaleusher.bsky.social
Constant reader, occasional writer living near San Diego
Pinned
We don’t have northern lights
but we have this tonight
but we have this tonight
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
We don’t have northern lights
but we have this tonight
but we have this tonight
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the stables at gloaming
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
the stables at gloaming
Whenever I watched the vessels standing out to sea with their white sails spread, I somehow thought of Miss Havisham and Estella; whenever the light struck aslant, afar off, upon a cloud or sail or green hill-side or water-line, it was just the same.
Dickens
Great Expectations C15
Dickens
Great Expectations C15
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Whenever I watched the vessels standing out to sea with their white sails spread, I somehow thought of Miss Havisham and Estella; whenever the light struck aslant, afar off, upon a cloud or sail or green hill-side or water-line, it was just the same.
Dickens
Great Expectations C15
Dickens
Great Expectations C15
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passing through woods
November 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
passing through woods
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Edgar:
“Come on, sir, here's the place; stand still.
How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!
The crows and choughs that wing the midway air
Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down
Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade!”
#KingLear_2025
Samphire plant —
“Come on, sir, here's the place; stand still.
How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!
The crows and choughs that wing the midway air
Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down
Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade!”
#KingLear_2025
Samphire plant —
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Edgar:
“Come on, sir, here's the place; stand still.
How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!
The crows and choughs that wing the midway air
Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down
Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade!”
#KingLear_2025
Samphire plant —
“Come on, sir, here's the place; stand still.
How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!
The crows and choughs that wing the midway air
Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down
Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade!”
#KingLear_2025
Samphire plant —
GLOUCESTER
Alack, I have no eyes.
Is wretchedness deprived that benefit
To end itself by death? ‘Twas yet some comfort
When misery could beguile the tyrant’s rage
And frustrate his proud will.
#KingLear_2025
Act IV s6(my version) (60-64)
Alack, I have no eyes.
Is wretchedness deprived that benefit
To end itself by death? ‘Twas yet some comfort
When misery could beguile the tyrant’s rage
And frustrate his proud will.
#KingLear_2025
Act IV s6(my version) (60-64)
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
GLOUCESTER
Alack, I have no eyes.
Is wretchedness deprived that benefit
To end itself by death? ‘Twas yet some comfort
When misery could beguile the tyrant’s rage
And frustrate his proud will.
#KingLear_2025
Act IV s6(my version) (60-64)
Alack, I have no eyes.
Is wretchedness deprived that benefit
To end itself by death? ‘Twas yet some comfort
When misery could beguile the tyrant’s rage
And frustrate his proud will.
#KingLear_2025
Act IV s6(my version) (60-64)
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EDGAR
How fearful
And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!
The crows and choughs that wind the midway air
…
The fishermen that walk upon the beach
Appear like mice, and yond tall anchoring bark
Diminish'd to her cock
…
The murmuring surge,
That on th' unnumber'd idle pebble chafes,
1+
How fearful
And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!
The crows and choughs that wind the midway air
…
The fishermen that walk upon the beach
Appear like mice, and yond tall anchoring bark
Diminish'd to her cock
…
The murmuring surge,
That on th' unnumber'd idle pebble chafes,
1+
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 AM
EDGAR
How fearful
And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!
The crows and choughs that wind the midway air
…
The fishermen that walk upon the beach
Appear like mice, and yond tall anchoring bark
Diminish'd to her cock
…
The murmuring surge,
That on th' unnumber'd idle pebble chafes,
1+
How fearful
And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low!
The crows and choughs that wind the midway air
…
The fishermen that walk upon the beach
Appear like mice, and yond tall anchoring bark
Diminish'd to her cock
…
The murmuring surge,
That on th' unnumber'd idle pebble chafes,
1+
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The wind writes two stories..
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The wind writes two stories..
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"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
. . . they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug.
Dickens
Great Expectations C11
Dickens
Great Expectations C11
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
. . . they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug.
Dickens
Great Expectations C11
Dickens
Great Expectations C11
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11th November is the feast of St Martin who is here depicted sharing his cloak with a beggar.
BL Stowe MS 17; 'The Maastricht Hours'; 14th century; f.98r
BL Stowe MS 17; 'The Maastricht Hours'; 14th century; f.98r
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
11th November is the feast of St Martin who is here depicted sharing his cloak with a beggar.
BL Stowe MS 17; 'The Maastricht Hours'; 14th century; f.98r
BL Stowe MS 17; 'The Maastricht Hours'; 14th century; f.98r
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Veterans Day🌾
"If America is not for freedom, I do not see what it is for."
– Walt Whitman, c. 1890
From my wife's walk today:
"If America is not for freedom, I do not see what it is for."
– Walt Whitman, c. 1890
From my wife's walk today:
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Veterans Day🌾
"If America is not for freedom, I do not see what it is for."
– Walt Whitman, c. 1890
From my wife's walk today:
"If America is not for freedom, I do not see what it is for."
– Walt Whitman, c. 1890
From my wife's walk today:
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CORDELIA. All blest secrets,
All you unpublished virtues of the earth,
Spring with my tears! Be aidant and remediate
In the good man's distress! Seek, seek for him,
Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life
That wants the means to lead it.
Act IV s3 #KingLear_2025 #UnpublishedVirtues #Cordelia
All you unpublished virtues of the earth,
Spring with my tears! Be aidant and remediate
In the good man's distress! Seek, seek for him,
Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life
That wants the means to lead it.
Act IV s3 #KingLear_2025 #UnpublishedVirtues #Cordelia
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 AM
CORDELIA. All blest secrets,
All you unpublished virtues of the earth,
Spring with my tears! Be aidant and remediate
In the good man's distress! Seek, seek for him,
Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life
That wants the means to lead it.
Act IV s3 #KingLear_2025 #UnpublishedVirtues #Cordelia
All you unpublished virtues of the earth,
Spring with my tears! Be aidant and remediate
In the good man's distress! Seek, seek for him,
Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life
That wants the means to lead it.
Act IV s3 #KingLear_2025 #UnpublishedVirtues #Cordelia
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#AmericanReadalong
„But in gazing at such scenes, it is all in all what mood you are in; if in the Dantean, the devils will occur to you; if in that of Isaiah, the archangels.“
Moby-Dick
C86
Satan is trapped in the frozen central zone in the Ninth Circle of Hell.
Illustration by Gustave Doré.
„But in gazing at such scenes, it is all in all what mood you are in; if in the Dantean, the devils will occur to you; if in that of Isaiah, the archangels.“
Moby-Dick
C86
Satan is trapped in the frozen central zone in the Ninth Circle of Hell.
Illustration by Gustave Doré.
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 AM
#AmericanReadalong
„But in gazing at such scenes, it is all in all what mood you are in; if in the Dantean, the devils will occur to you; if in that of Isaiah, the archangels.“
Moby-Dick
C86
Satan is trapped in the frozen central zone in the Ninth Circle of Hell.
Illustration by Gustave Doré.
„But in gazing at such scenes, it is all in all what mood you are in; if in the Dantean, the devils will occur to you; if in that of Isaiah, the archangels.“
Moby-Dick
C86
Satan is trapped in the frozen central zone in the Ninth Circle of Hell.
Illustration by Gustave Doré.
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November 10th
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
November 10th
Miss Havisham’s face could not smile. It had dropped into a watchful and brooding expression—most likely when all the things about her had become transfixed—and it looked as if nothing could ever lift it up again.
Dickens / Great Expectations C8
Dickens / Great Expectations C8
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Miss Havisham’s face could not smile. It had dropped into a watchful and brooding expression—most likely when all the things about her had become transfixed—and it looked as if nothing could ever lift it up again.
Dickens / Great Expectations C8
Dickens / Great Expectations C8
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Golden late afternoon sky yesterday over Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California.
#sunset #sky #nature #eastcoastkin
#sunset #sky #nature #eastcoastkin
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Golden late afternoon sky yesterday over Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California.
#sunset #sky #nature #eastcoastkin
#sunset #sky #nature #eastcoastkin
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I could not but think that I was building myself up in an unerring knowledge of Liverpool; especially as I had familiarized myself with the map, and could turn sharp corners on it, with marvelous confidence and celerity.
Redburn. His First Voyage/Chapter XXXI
Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!
Redburn. His First Voyage/Chapter XXXI
Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I could not but think that I was building myself up in an unerring knowledge of Liverpool; especially as I had familiarized myself with the map, and could turn sharp corners on it, with marvelous confidence and celerity.
Redburn. His First Voyage/Chapter XXXI
Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!
Redburn. His First Voyage/Chapter XXXI
Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!
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Photograph taken by Arthur Singer during the refurbishment of The American Museum of Natural History in 1969
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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#MelvilleMonday 🕯️ Veterans Day(-1 )
"A DREADFUL glory lights an earnest end;
In jubilee the patriot ghosts ascend..."
- Herman Melville, c. 1862
"A DREADFUL glory lights an earnest end;
In jubilee the patriot ghosts ascend..."
- Herman Melville, c. 1862
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
#MelvilleMonday 🕯️ Veterans Day(-1 )
"A DREADFUL glory lights an earnest end;
In jubilee the patriot ghosts ascend..."
- Herman Melville, c. 1862
"A DREADFUL glory lights an earnest end;
In jubilee the patriot ghosts ascend..."
- Herman Melville, c. 1862
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November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM