Thomas Liam
@thomasliam300.bsky.social
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Duke Vincentio:
O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools!
Give us some seats. Come, cousin Angelo;
In this I'll be impartial; be you judge
Of your own cause.
(V.1.184-187)
Duke Vincentio:
O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools!
Give us some seats. Come, cousin Angelo;
In this I'll be impartial; be you judge
Of your own cause.
(V.1.184-187)
January 18, 2026 at 1:05 AM
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Duke Vincentio:
O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools!
Give us some seats. Come, cousin Angelo;
In this I'll be impartial; be you judge
Of your own cause.
(V.1.184-187)
Duke Vincentio:
O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools!
Give us some seats. Come, cousin Angelo;
In this I'll be impartial; be you judge
Of your own cause.
(V.1.184-187)
#SundaySarton
"She could have had no idea how grave and prescient a gift it would turn out to be, but I, holding it now in my hands forty-eight years later, was moved to find there, on the flyleaf, one of those mysterious links in individual lives that can be seen only by going back in time."
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"She could have had no idea how grave and prescient a gift it would turn out to be, but I, holding it now in my hands forty-eight years later, was moved to find there, on the flyleaf, one of those mysterious links in individual lives that can be seen only by going back in time."
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January 17, 2026 at 7:30 PM
#SundaySarton
"She could have had no idea how grave and prescient a gift it would turn out to be, but I, holding it now in my hands forty-eight years later, was moved to find there, on the flyleaf, one of those mysterious links in individual lives that can be seen only by going back in time."
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"She could have had no idea how grave and prescient a gift it would turn out to be, but I, holding it now in my hands forty-eight years later, was moved to find there, on the flyleaf, one of those mysterious links in individual lives that can be seen only by going back in time."
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#NYRBWomen26
Lolly Willowes
"Strange that anything so small and weak should be the Devil’s Officer, plenipotentiary of such a power. Strange that she should stand trembling and amazed before a little rag-and-bone kitten with absurdly large ears."
1/2
Lolly Willowes
"Strange that anything so small and weak should be the Devil’s Officer, plenipotentiary of such a power. Strange that she should stand trembling and amazed before a little rag-and-bone kitten with absurdly large ears."
1/2
January 17, 2026 at 6:44 PM
#NYRBWomen26
Lolly Willowes
"Strange that anything so small and weak should be the Devil’s Officer, plenipotentiary of such a power. Strange that she should stand trembling and amazed before a little rag-and-bone kitten with absurdly large ears."
1/2
Lolly Willowes
"Strange that anything so small and weak should be the Devil’s Officer, plenipotentiary of such a power. Strange that she should stand trembling and amazed before a little rag-and-bone kitten with absurdly large ears."
1/2
#NYRBWome26
Lolly Willowes
"He liked it because he was in possession."
"Silence heard them coming, and fled out of the fields..."
"...he was making her miserable in the best of faith."
"Her delusion of freedom had amused them."
Lolly Willowes
"He liked it because he was in possession."
"Silence heard them coming, and fled out of the fields..."
"...he was making her miserable in the best of faith."
"Her delusion of freedom had amused them."
January 17, 2026 at 12:53 AM
#NYRBWome26
Lolly Willowes
"He liked it because he was in possession."
"Silence heard them coming, and fled out of the fields..."
"...he was making her miserable in the best of faith."
"Her delusion of freedom had amused them."
Lolly Willowes
"He liked it because he was in possession."
"Silence heard them coming, and fled out of the fields..."
"...he was making her miserable in the best of faith."
"Her delusion of freedom had amused them."
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Duke Vincentio:
O, your desert speaks loud; and I should wrong it,
To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,
When it deserves, with characters of brass,
A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.
(V.1.10-14)
Duke Vincentio:
O, your desert speaks loud; and I should wrong it,
To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,
When it deserves, with characters of brass,
A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.
(V.1.10-14)
January 17, 2026 at 12:47 AM
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Duke Vincentio:
O, your desert speaks loud; and I should wrong it,
To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,
When it deserves, with characters of brass,
A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.
(V.1.10-14)
Duke Vincentio:
O, your desert speaks loud; and I should wrong it,
To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,
When it deserves, with characters of brass,
A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.
(V.1.10-14)
January 17, 2026 at 12:33 AM
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Pompey:
Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till you are
executed, and sleep afterwards.
(IV.3.30-31)
Pompey:
Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till you are
executed, and sleep afterwards.
(IV.3.30-31)
January 15, 2026 at 2:59 AM
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Pompey:
Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till you are
executed, and sleep afterwards.
(IV.3.30-31)
Pompey:
Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till you are
executed, and sleep afterwards.
(IV.3.30-31)
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Provost:
Here is in our prison a common
executioner, who in his office lacks a helper: if
you will take it on you to assist him, it shall
redeem you from your gyves;
(IV.2.7-10)
1/2
Provost:
Here is in our prison a common
executioner, who in his office lacks a helper: if
you will take it on you to assist him, it shall
redeem you from your gyves;
(IV.2.7-10)
1/2
January 15, 2026 at 2:33 AM
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Provost:
Here is in our prison a common
executioner, who in his office lacks a helper: if
you will take it on you to assist him, it shall
redeem you from your gyves;
(IV.2.7-10)
1/2
Provost:
Here is in our prison a common
executioner, who in his office lacks a helper: if
you will take it on you to assist him, it shall
redeem you from your gyves;
(IV.2.7-10)
1/2
#RachelCuskTogether
Day 106
'The one thing you can say about people for sure,' Ryan said, 'is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.'
Day 106
'The one thing you can say about people for sure,' Ryan said, 'is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.'
January 15, 2026 at 2:15 AM
#RachelCuskTogether
Day 106
'The one thing you can say about people for sure,' Ryan said, 'is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.'
Day 106
'The one thing you can say about people for sure,' Ryan said, 'is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.'
#NYRBWomen26
Lolly Willowes. Catching up on a few days. Here are a few of my favourite lines.
"It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies."
"Life becomes simple if one does nothing about it."
1.
Lolly Willowes. Catching up on a few days. Here are a few of my favourite lines.
"It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies."
"Life becomes simple if one does nothing about it."
1.
January 15, 2026 at 12:26 AM
#NYRBWomen26
Lolly Willowes. Catching up on a few days. Here are a few of my favourite lines.
"It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies."
"Life becomes simple if one does nothing about it."
1.
Lolly Willowes. Catching up on a few days. Here are a few of my favourite lines.
"It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies."
"Life becomes simple if one does nothing about it."
1.
#RachelCuskTogether
"If I was interested in metaphors, he said (😂), the serpent's role is merely to create a viewpoint from which Adam's and Eve's weaknesses can be observed, and thus the snake might be representative of anything that triangulates the relationship of two identities..."
"If I was interested in metaphors, he said (😂), the serpent's role is merely to create a viewpoint from which Adam's and Eve's weaknesses can be observed, and thus the snake might be representative of anything that triangulates the relationship of two identities..."
January 12, 2026 at 2:27 AM
#RachelCuskTogether
"If I was interested in metaphors, he said (😂), the serpent's role is merely to create a viewpoint from which Adam's and Eve's weaknesses can be observed, and thus the snake might be representative of anything that triangulates the relationship of two identities..."
"If I was interested in metaphors, he said (😂), the serpent's role is merely to create a viewpoint from which Adam's and Eve's weaknesses can be observed, and thus the snake might be representative of anything that triangulates the relationship of two identities..."
#MeasureForMeasure
Duke Vincentio
'Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
(IV.1.14-15)
Duke Vincentio
'Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
(IV.1.14-15)
January 12, 2026 at 12:34 AM
#MeasureForMeasure
Duke Vincentio
'Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
(IV.1.14-15)
Duke Vincentio
'Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
(IV.1.14-15)
#NYRBWomen26
"Even Henry and Caroline, whom she saw every day, were half hidden under their accumulations — accumulations of prosperity, authority, daily experience. They were carpeted with experience. No new event could set jarring foot on them but they would absorb and muffle the impact."
"Even Henry and Caroline, whom she saw every day, were half hidden under their accumulations — accumulations of prosperity, authority, daily experience. They were carpeted with experience. No new event could set jarring foot on them but they would absorb and muffle the impact."
January 11, 2026 at 4:09 PM
#NYRBWomen26
"Even Henry and Caroline, whom she saw every day, were half hidden under their accumulations — accumulations of prosperity, authority, daily experience. They were carpeted with experience. No new event could set jarring foot on them but they would absorb and muffle the impact."
"Even Henry and Caroline, whom she saw every day, were half hidden under their accumulations — accumulations of prosperity, authority, daily experience. They were carpeted with experience. No new event could set jarring foot on them but they would absorb and muffle the impact."
#NYRBWomen26
Lolly Willowes
Henry took heart. He rallied Laura, supposing that when she lived at Great Mop she would start hunting for catnip again, and become the village witch.
‘How lovely!’ said Laura.
Her writing is exquisite. It's difficult to decide which excerpt is my favourite each day.
Lolly Willowes
Henry took heart. He rallied Laura, supposing that when she lived at Great Mop she would start hunting for catnip again, and become the village witch.
‘How lovely!’ said Laura.
Her writing is exquisite. It's difficult to decide which excerpt is my favourite each day.
January 11, 2026 at 4:07 PM
#NYRBWomen26
Lolly Willowes
Henry took heart. He rallied Laura, supposing that when she lived at Great Mop she would start hunting for catnip again, and become the village witch.
‘How lovely!’ said Laura.
Her writing is exquisite. It's difficult to decide which excerpt is my favourite each day.
Lolly Willowes
Henry took heart. He rallied Laura, supposing that when she lived at Great Mop she would start hunting for catnip again, and become the village witch.
‘How lovely!’ said Laura.
Her writing is exquisite. It's difficult to decide which excerpt is my favourite each day.
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Duke Vincentio:
There is scarce
truth enough alive to make societies secure; but
security enough to make fellowships accurst: much
upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world. This
news is old enough, yet it is every day's news.
(III.2.220-224)
Every day's news.
Duke Vincentio:
There is scarce
truth enough alive to make societies secure; but
security enough to make fellowships accurst: much
upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world. This
news is old enough, yet it is every day's news.
(III.2.220-224)
Every day's news.
January 11, 2026 at 1:43 AM
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Duke Vincentio:
There is scarce
truth enough alive to make societies secure; but
security enough to make fellowships accurst: much
upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world. This
news is old enough, yet it is every day's news.
(III.2.220-224)
Every day's news.
Duke Vincentio:
There is scarce
truth enough alive to make societies secure; but
security enough to make fellowships accurst: much
upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world. This
news is old enough, yet it is every day's news.
(III.2.220-224)
Every day's news.
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Lucio:
A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in
him: something too crabbed that way, friar.
(III.2.95-96) - Arden 3rd
Lucio:
A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in
him: something too crabbed that way, friar.
(III.2.95-96) - Arden 3rd
January 10, 2026 at 1:53 AM
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Lucio:
A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in
him: something too crabbed that way, friar.
(III.2.95-96) - Arden 3rd
Lucio:
A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in
him: something too crabbed that way, friar.
(III.2.95-96) - Arden 3rd
#NYRBWomen26
Lolly Willowes - STW
‘It is quite like old times,’ said Caroline, who sat working beside her. ‘Isn’t it, Lolly?’ ‘Except for these anachronisms,’ said Laura.
Lolly Willowes - STW
‘It is quite like old times,’ said Caroline, who sat working beside her. ‘Isn’t it, Lolly?’ ‘Except for these anachronisms,’ said Laura.
January 9, 2026 at 10:12 PM
#NYRBWomen26
Lolly Willowes - STW
‘It is quite like old times,’ said Caroline, who sat working beside her. ‘Isn’t it, Lolly?’ ‘Except for these anachronisms,’ said Laura.
Lolly Willowes - STW
‘It is quite like old times,’ said Caroline, who sat working beside her. ‘Isn’t it, Lolly?’ ‘Except for these anachronisms,’ said Laura.
#SundaySarton
"All of this was made more painful by the fact that Mabel and her mother had never been intimate friends; Nellie Elwes was primarily a wife, not a mother, and though she gave her heart to her only son, she did not come to love her daughter until she, Nellie, was a very old woman."
"All of this was made more painful by the fact that Mabel and her mother had never been intimate friends; Nellie Elwes was primarily a wife, not a mother, and though she gave her heart to her only son, she did not come to love her daughter until she, Nellie, was a very old woman."
January 9, 2026 at 7:02 PM
#SundaySarton
"All of this was made more painful by the fact that Mabel and her mother had never been intimate friends; Nellie Elwes was primarily a wife, not a mother, and though she gave her heart to her only son, she did not come to love her daughter until she, Nellie, was a very old woman."
"All of this was made more painful by the fact that Mabel and her mother had never been intimate friends; Nellie Elwes was primarily a wife, not a mother, and though she gave her heart to her only son, she did not come to love her daughter until she, Nellie, was a very old woman."
Reposted by Thomas Liam
If you let them, the horrors will devour you whole. Making space to live and smile is an act of resistance. So is helping others to do the same. If you’re an artist in this time, remember that what you’re doing is part of the emotional support infrastructure. They want you silent. 1/2
January 9, 2026 at 4:17 PM
If you let them, the horrors will devour you whole. Making space to live and smile is an act of resistance. So is helping others to do the same. If you’re an artist in this time, remember that what you’re doing is part of the emotional support infrastructure. They want you silent. 1/2
#RachelCuskTogether
Day 100
"...because over the two decades of our marriage our male and female qualities had become blunted on one another. We lived together like sheep, grazing side by side, huddled next to each other in sleep, habituated and unthinking."
Day 100
"...because over the two decades of our marriage our male and female qualities had become blunted on one another. We lived together like sheep, grazing side by side, huddled next to each other in sleep, habituated and unthinking."
January 9, 2026 at 12:41 AM
#RachelCuskTogether
Day 100
"...because over the two decades of our marriage our male and female qualities had become blunted on one another. We lived together like sheep, grazing side by side, huddled next to each other in sleep, habituated and unthinking."
Day 100
"...because over the two decades of our marriage our male and female qualities had become blunted on one another. We lived together like sheep, grazing side by side, huddled next to each other in sleep, habituated and unthinking."
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Duke Vincentio:
...the doubleness
of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof.
(III.1.178-179)
Duke Vincentio:
...the doubleness
of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof.
(III.1.178-179)
January 9, 2026 at 12:05 AM
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
Duke Vincentio:
...the doubleness
of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof.
(III.1.178-179)
Duke Vincentio:
...the doubleness
of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof.
(III.1.178-179)
#SundaySarton
I Knew a Phoenix
"There is something about this story that recreates for me the perfume of that moment in time, its unrealistic idealism, its liveliness, and its gentle irony, for although each of these young bourgeois was sincere, each was playing a part to the hilt..."
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I Knew a Phoenix
"There is something about this story that recreates for me the perfume of that moment in time, its unrealistic idealism, its liveliness, and its gentle irony, for although each of these young bourgeois was sincere, each was playing a part to the hilt..."
1.
January 8, 2026 at 8:51 PM
#SundaySarton
I Knew a Phoenix
"There is something about this story that recreates for me the perfume of that moment in time, its unrealistic idealism, its liveliness, and its gentle irony, for although each of these young bourgeois was sincere, each was playing a part to the hilt..."
1.
I Knew a Phoenix
"There is something about this story that recreates for me the perfume of that moment in time, its unrealistic idealism, its liveliness, and its gentle irony, for although each of these young bourgeois was sincere, each was playing a part to the hilt..."
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#RachelCuskTogether
"...I realised too that she would never have known this happiness had she not gone through the unhappiness that preceded it, in precisely the way that she did."
"...I realised too that she would never have known this happiness had she not gone through the unhappiness that preceded it, in precisely the way that she did."
January 8, 2026 at 1:48 AM
#RachelCuskTogether
"...I realised too that she would never have known this happiness had she not gone through the unhappiness that preceded it, in precisely the way that she did."
"...I realised too that she would never have known this happiness had she not gone through the unhappiness that preceded it, in precisely the way that she did."
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
D. Vincenzio:
Thou'rt by no means valiant;
For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork
Of a poor worm.
(III.1.15-17)
...
Isabella:
The sense of death is most in apprehension;
(III.3.85)
D. Vincenzio:
Thou'rt by no means valiant;
For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork
Of a poor worm.
(III.1.15-17)
...
Isabella:
The sense of death is most in apprehension;
(III.3.85)
January 8, 2026 at 12:41 AM
#MeasureForMeasure_2025
D. Vincenzio:
Thou'rt by no means valiant;
For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork
Of a poor worm.
(III.1.15-17)
...
Isabella:
The sense of death is most in apprehension;
(III.3.85)
D. Vincenzio:
Thou'rt by no means valiant;
For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork
Of a poor worm.
(III.1.15-17)
...
Isabella:
The sense of death is most in apprehension;
(III.3.85)
#SundaySarton
I Knew a Phoenix
"It was not dreadful or wrong at all, what happened to her there, but a time full of secret riches, which she understood because she was already the person she was to become, able to face reality, and to face it with complete courage, on her own terms."
I Knew a Phoenix
"It was not dreadful or wrong at all, what happened to her there, but a time full of secret riches, which she understood because she was already the person she was to become, able to face reality, and to face it with complete courage, on her own terms."
January 8, 2026 at 12:23 AM
#SundaySarton
I Knew a Phoenix
"It was not dreadful or wrong at all, what happened to her there, but a time full of secret riches, which she understood because she was already the person she was to become, able to face reality, and to face it with complete courage, on her own terms."
I Knew a Phoenix
"It was not dreadful or wrong at all, what happened to her there, but a time full of secret riches, which she understood because she was already the person she was to become, able to face reality, and to face it with complete courage, on her own terms."