Susan Pigman 📚
@1susyq.bsky.social
Avid reader, dog walker, and occasional poet. “It is not everyone,” said Elinor, who has your passion for dead leaves.” Jane Austen
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Edgar:
“What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure
Their going hence even as their coming hither,
Ripeness is all. Come on.”
Gloucester:
“And that's true too.”
#KingLear_2025
Illustration by Arthur Rackham
“What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure
Their going hence even as their coming hither,
Ripeness is all. Come on.”
Gloucester:
“And that's true too.”
#KingLear_2025
Illustration by Arthur Rackham
November 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Edgar:
“What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure
Their going hence even as their coming hither,
Ripeness is all. Come on.”
Gloucester:
“And that's true too.”
#KingLear_2025
Illustration by Arthur Rackham
“What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure
Their going hence even as their coming hither,
Ripeness is all. Come on.”
Gloucester:
“And that's true too.”
#KingLear_2025
Illustration by Arthur Rackham
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Cordelia:
“Was this a face
To be oppos'd against the warring winds?
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?
In the most terrible and nimble stroke
Of quick cross lightning? To watch-poor perdu!-
With this thin helm?”
#KingLear_2025
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham)
“Was this a face
To be oppos'd against the warring winds?
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?
In the most terrible and nimble stroke
Of quick cross lightning? To watch-poor perdu!-
With this thin helm?”
#KingLear_2025
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham)
November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Cordelia:
“Was this a face
To be oppos'd against the warring winds?
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?
In the most terrible and nimble stroke
Of quick cross lightning? To watch-poor perdu!-
With this thin helm?”
#KingLear_2025
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham)
“Was this a face
To be oppos'd against the warring winds?
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?
In the most terrible and nimble stroke
Of quick cross lightning? To watch-poor perdu!-
With this thin helm?”
#KingLear_2025
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham)
Lear:
“Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.”
#KingLear_2025
“Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.”
#KingLear_2025
November 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Lear:
“Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.”
#KingLear_2025
“Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.”
#KingLear_2025
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 —
“Kent (as Caius):
Of Albany's and Cornwall's powers you heard not?
1st Gentleman:
Tis so, they are afoot.”
#KingLear_2025
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham)
Of Albany's and Cornwall's powers you heard not?
1st Gentleman:
Tis so, they are afoot.”
#KingLear_2025
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham)
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“Kent (as Caius):
Of Albany's and Cornwall's powers you heard not?
1st Gentleman:
Tis so, they are afoot.”
#KingLear_2025
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham)
Of Albany's and Cornwall's powers you heard not?
1st Gentleman:
Tis so, they are afoot.”
#KingLear_2025
(Illustration by Arthur Rackham)
Laura Ingalls Wilder quotes Cardinal Wolsey in one of the Little House on the Prairie books. Laura writes an essay on ambition, ending “Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition./ By that sin, fell the angels.”
#KingHenryVIII_2025
#KingHenryVIII_2025
October 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Laura Ingalls Wilder quotes Cardinal Wolsey in one of the Little House on the Prairie books. Laura writes an essay on ambition, ending “Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition./ By that sin, fell the angels.”
#KingHenryVIII_2025
#KingHenryVIII_2025
2nd Gentleman:
“I think you have hit the mark; but is't not cruel.
That she should feel the smart of this? The Cardinal
Will have his will, and she must fall.
1st Gentleman:
Tis woeful.”
#KingHenryVIII_2025
“I think you have hit the mark; but is't not cruel.
That she should feel the smart of this? The Cardinal
Will have his will, and she must fall.
1st Gentleman:
Tis woeful.”
#KingHenryVIII_2025
September 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
2nd Gentleman:
“I think you have hit the mark; but is't not cruel.
That she should feel the smart of this? The Cardinal
Will have his will, and she must fall.
1st Gentleman:
Tis woeful.”
#KingHenryVIII_2025
“I think you have hit the mark; but is't not cruel.
That she should feel the smart of this? The Cardinal
Will have his will, and she must fall.
1st Gentleman:
Tis woeful.”
#KingHenryVIII_2025
2nd Gentleman:
“All the commons
Hate him perniciously, and, o' my conscience,
Wish him ten fathom deep. This duke as much
They love and dote on; call him bounteous Buckingham,
The mirror of all courtesy-“
Wolsey seems to be emerging as the villain here.
#KingHenryVIII_2025
“All the commons
Hate him perniciously, and, o' my conscience,
Wish him ten fathom deep. This duke as much
They love and dote on; call him bounteous Buckingham,
The mirror of all courtesy-“
Wolsey seems to be emerging as the villain here.
#KingHenryVIII_2025
September 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
2nd Gentleman:
“All the commons
Hate him perniciously, and, o' my conscience,
Wish him ten fathom deep. This duke as much
They love and dote on; call him bounteous Buckingham,
The mirror of all courtesy-“
Wolsey seems to be emerging as the villain here.
#KingHenryVIII_2025
“All the commons
Hate him perniciously, and, o' my conscience,
Wish him ten fathom deep. This duke as much
They love and dote on; call him bounteous Buckingham,
The mirror of all courtesy-“
Wolsey seems to be emerging as the villain here.
#KingHenryVIII_2025
Lord Chamberlain:
“Now I would pray our monsieurs To think an English courtier may be wise
And never see the Louvre.”
#KingHenryVIII_2025
“Now I would pray our monsieurs To think an English courtier may be wise
And never see the Louvre.”
#KingHenryVIII_2025
September 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Lord Chamberlain:
“Now I would pray our monsieurs To think an English courtier may be wise
And never see the Louvre.”
#KingHenryVIII_2025
“Now I would pray our monsieurs To think an English courtier may be wise
And never see the Louvre.”
#KingHenryVIII_2025
Buckingham:
“I am the shadow of poor Buckingham,
Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on
By dark’ning my clear sun. My lord, farewell.”
HenryVIII_2025
“I am the shadow of poor Buckingham,
Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on
By dark’ning my clear sun. My lord, farewell.”
HenryVIII_2025
September 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Buckingham:
“I am the shadow of poor Buckingham,
Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on
By dark’ning my clear sun. My lord, farewell.”
HenryVIII_2025
“I am the shadow of poor Buckingham,
Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on
By dark’ning my clear sun. My lord, farewell.”
HenryVIII_2025
BASTARD:
“I’ll tell thee, Hubert, half my power this night,
Passing these flats, are taken by the tide—
These Lincoln Washes have devoured them;
Myself, well mounted, hardly have escap’d.”
“I’ll tell thee, Hubert, half my power this night,
Passing these flats, are taken by the tide—
These Lincoln Washes have devoured them;
Myself, well mounted, hardly have escap’d.”
September 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
BASTARD:
“I’ll tell thee, Hubert, half my power this night,
Passing these flats, are taken by the tide—
These Lincoln Washes have devoured them;
Myself, well mounted, hardly have escap’d.”
“I’ll tell thee, Hubert, half my power this night,
Passing these flats, are taken by the tide—
These Lincoln Washes have devoured them;
Myself, well mounted, hardly have escap’d.”
MESSENGER:
“Be of good comfort; for the great supply,
That was expected by the Dauphin here,
Are wrack'd three nights ago on Goodwin Sands…”
#KingJohn_2025
“Be of good comfort; for the great supply,
That was expected by the Dauphin here,
Are wrack'd three nights ago on Goodwin Sands…”
#KingJohn_2025
September 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
MESSENGER:
“Be of good comfort; for the great supply,
That was expected by the Dauphin here,
Are wrack'd three nights ago on Goodwin Sands…”
#KingJohn_2025
“Be of good comfort; for the great supply,
That was expected by the Dauphin here,
Are wrack'd three nights ago on Goodwin Sands…”
#KingJohn_2025
September 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
For Kindle readers who like Elizabeth Taylor novels, there seems to be a sale on atm — A Wreath of Roses for $.99 and The Complete Short Stories for $2.99
August 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
For Kindle readers who like Elizabeth Taylor novels, there seems to be a sale on atm — A Wreath of Roses for $.99 and The Complete Short Stories for $2.99
“The Soul of Kindness,” Elizabeth Taylor
August 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
“The Soul of Kindness,” Elizabeth Taylor
Pandulph:
“France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue,
A cased lion by the mortal paw,
A fasting tiger safer by the tooth,
Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold.”
#KingJohn_2025
“France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue,
A cased lion by the mortal paw,
A fasting tiger safer by the tooth,
Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold.”
#KingJohn_2025
August 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Pandulph:
“France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue,
A cased lion by the mortal paw,
A fasting tiger safer by the tooth,
Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold.”
#KingJohn_2025
“France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue,
A cased lion by the mortal paw,
A fasting tiger safer by the tooth,
Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold.”
#KingJohn_2025
“KING JOHN:
What say these young ones? What say you, my niece?
BLANCHE:
That she is bound in honor still to do What you in wisdom still vouchsafe to say.”
#KingJohn_2025
What say these young ones? What say you, my niece?
BLANCHE:
That she is bound in honor still to do What you in wisdom still vouchsafe to say.”
#KingJohn_2025
August 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“KING JOHN:
What say these young ones? What say you, my niece?
BLANCHE:
That she is bound in honor still to do What you in wisdom still vouchsafe to say.”
#KingJohn_2025
What say these young ones? What say you, my niece?
BLANCHE:
That she is bound in honor still to do What you in wisdom still vouchsafe to say.”
#KingJohn_2025
“She was glad when her supper came.
'Now tuck in, said Nurse Murphy, excitedly whipping the cover off the dish, as if it were the last garment in a strip-tease.”
The Soul of Kindness, Elizabeth Taylor CC
'Now tuck in, said Nurse Murphy, excitedly whipping the cover off the dish, as if it were the last garment in a strip-tease.”
The Soul of Kindness, Elizabeth Taylor CC
August 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“She was glad when her supper came.
'Now tuck in, said Nurse Murphy, excitedly whipping the cover off the dish, as if it were the last garment in a strip-tease.”
The Soul of Kindness, Elizabeth Taylor CC
'Now tuck in, said Nurse Murphy, excitedly whipping the cover off the dish, as if it were the last garment in a strip-tease.”
The Soul of Kindness, Elizabeth Taylor CC
From The Soul of Kindness, Elizabeth Taylor
August 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
From The Soul of Kindness, Elizabeth Taylor
#KingJohn_2025
French Herald: You men of Angiers, open wide your gates,
And let young Arthur Duke of Britain in….
French Herald: You men of Angiers, open wide your gates,
And let young Arthur Duke of Britain in….
August 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
#KingJohn_2025
French Herald: You men of Angiers, open wide your gates,
And let young Arthur Duke of Britain in….
French Herald: You men of Angiers, open wide your gates,
And let young Arthur Duke of Britain in….
A red letter mail day yesterday —
August 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A red letter mail day yesterday —
#KingJohn_2025
…”and the right thou hast in France,
Together with that pale, that white-fac'd shore,
Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tides
And coops from other lands her islanders…”
…”and the right thou hast in France,
Together with that pale, that white-fac'd shore,
Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tides
And coops from other lands her islanders…”
August 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
#KingJohn_2025
…”and the right thou hast in France,
Together with that pale, that white-fac'd shore,
Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tides
And coops from other lands her islanders…”
…”and the right thou hast in France,
Together with that pale, that white-fac'd shore,
Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tides
And coops from other lands her islanders…”