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VALENTINE
Were’t not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honoured love,
I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
#2Gents_2025
Act I s1 (3-8)
Were’t not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honoured love,
I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
#2Gents_2025
Act I s1 (3-8)
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
VALENTINE
Were’t not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honoured love,
I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
#2Gents_2025
Act I s1 (3-8)
Were’t not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honoured love,
I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
#2Gents_2025
Act I s1 (3-8)
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November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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#Tokarczuk25 #OlgaTokarczuk #Flights Translated by #JenniferCroft #readinganactofsharedsolitude #beedoubleokayess📚🐦 #paperpills🇵🇸❤️ #reemreel #athingofbeauty
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November 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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“The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness”
#JosephConrad #HeartOfDarkness
#JosephConrad #HeartOfDarkness
In Heart of Darkness, the General Manager’s uncle suggests hanging a trader because “there’s no authority around.” That line cracks the whole text open: “civilization” is just a costume that slips off the moment no one is watching. That’s where the moral void begins.
#JosephConrad
#JosephConrad
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
“The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness”
#JosephConrad #HeartOfDarkness
#JosephConrad #HeartOfDarkness
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Image from Henry Everett's 1956 map "The Voyage of the Pequod from the Book Moby Dick by Herman Melville."
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Ismael, buoyed by a coffin-canoe, "floating on a soft and dirgelike [map]." (Epilogue - Moby Dick or The Whale)
The #map, floating, soft, and #dirgelike...
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Ismael, buoyed by a coffin-canoe, "floating on a soft and dirgelike [map]." (Epilogue - Moby Dick or The Whale)
The #map, floating, soft, and #dirgelike...
![[map portion] is from Henry Everett's 1956 map "The Voyage of the Pequod from the Book Moby Dick by Herman Melville.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q66r3vy7xepmx62ti4vt7uzb/bafkreic7xpe2m6haq3cebjqg6y7nrtax4ov33q4xy624tn2lw6fgzkx3xa@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Whaling, Pequot history.
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#MelvilleMonday
“Reckoning ten barrels to the ton, you have ten tons for the net weight of only three quarters of the stuff of the whale's skin.”
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#MelvilleMonday
“Reckoning ten barrels to the ton, you have ten tons for the net weight of only three quarters of the stuff of the whale's skin.”
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Whaling, Pequot history.
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#MelvilleMonday
“Reckoning ten barrels to the ton, you have ten tons for the net weight of only three quarters of the stuff of the whale's skin.”
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#MelvilleMonday
“Reckoning ten barrels to the ton, you have ten tons for the net weight of only three quarters of the stuff of the whale's skin.”
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November 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
#AmericanReadalong
“look here, —three peaks as proud as Lucifer. The firm tower, that is Ahab; the volcano, that is Ahab; the courageous, the undaunted, and victorious fowl, that, too, is Ahab; all are Ahab“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 99. The Doubloon
“look here, —three peaks as proud as Lucifer. The firm tower, that is Ahab; the volcano, that is Ahab; the courageous, the undaunted, and victorious fowl, that, too, is Ahab; all are Ahab“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 99. The Doubloon
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
#AmericanReadalong
“look here, —three peaks as proud as Lucifer. The firm tower, that is Ahab; the volcano, that is Ahab; the courageous, the undaunted, and victorious fowl, that, too, is Ahab; all are Ahab“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 99. The Doubloon
“look here, —three peaks as proud as Lucifer. The firm tower, that is Ahab; the volcano, that is Ahab; the courageous, the undaunted, and victorious fowl, that, too, is Ahab; all are Ahab“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 99. The Doubloon
PROTEUS
I leave myself, my friends, and all, for love:
Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphos'd me;
Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,
War with good counsel, set the world at nought;
Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.
#2Gents_2025
I,1,63-69
Menelaus captures Proteus
I leave myself, my friends, and all, for love:
Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphos'd me;
Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,
War with good counsel, set the world at nought;
Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.
#2Gents_2025
I,1,63-69
Menelaus captures Proteus
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
PROTEUS
I leave myself, my friends, and all, for love:
Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphos'd me;
Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,
War with good counsel, set the world at nought;
Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.
#2Gents_2025
I,1,63-69
Menelaus captures Proteus
I leave myself, my friends, and all, for love:
Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphos'd me;
Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,
War with good counsel, set the world at nought;
Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.
#2Gents_2025
I,1,63-69
Menelaus captures Proteus
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness II
„… this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention.
It looked at you with a vengeful aspect.“
Heart of Darkness II
„… this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention.
It looked at you with a vengeful aspect.“
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 AM
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness II
„… this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention.
It looked at you with a vengeful aspect.“
Heart of Darkness II
„… this stillness of life did not in the least resemble a peace. It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention.
It looked at you with a vengeful aspect.“
#Tokarczuk25
„‚You can call me Eryk’, he would announce in lieu of a greeting as he walked into the little bar, which at that time of year was heated only by the wood in the fireplace, and everyone would smile in a friendly way to him …“
Flights
Ash Wednesday Feast
Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳!
„‚You can call me Eryk’, he would announce in lieu of a greeting as he walked into the little bar, which at that time of year was heated only by the wood in the fireplace, and everyone would smile in a friendly way to him …“
Flights
Ash Wednesday Feast
Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳!
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
#Tokarczuk25
„‚You can call me Eryk’, he would announce in lieu of a greeting as he walked into the little bar, which at that time of year was heated only by the wood in the fireplace, and everyone would smile in a friendly way to him …“
Flights
Ash Wednesday Feast
Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳!
„‚You can call me Eryk’, he would announce in lieu of a greeting as he walked into the little bar, which at that time of year was heated only by the wood in the fireplace, and everyone would smile in a friendly way to him …“
Flights
Ash Wednesday Feast
Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳!
„The room had become a dazzling chamber of reflecting surfaces while the world outside became opaque. Everywhere you looked, there was only the reflection of what was already there. Often I had walked past the salon in the dark and had glanced in through the windows.“
#RachelCuskTogether
#Transit
#RachelCuskTogether
#Transit
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
„The room had become a dazzling chamber of reflecting surfaces while the world outside became opaque. Everywhere you looked, there was only the reflection of what was already there. Often I had walked past the salon in the dark and had glanced in through the windows.“
#RachelCuskTogether
#Transit
#RachelCuskTogether
#Transit
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Starting the #stitching on this scrap of a #screenprint on fabric of a Shetland Navigation chart with some watercolour highlights
#HandEmbroidery #WorkInProgress
#HandEmbroidery #WorkInProgress
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Starting the #stitching on this scrap of a #screenprint on fabric of a Shetland Navigation chart with some watercolour highlights
#HandEmbroidery #WorkInProgress
#HandEmbroidery #WorkInProgress
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Everyone's been here in Paris, right?
November 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Everyone's been here in Paris, right?
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Was passing by Gertrude Stein a little more than a week ago.
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Was passing by Gertrude Stein a little more than a week ago.
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As a teen, Jimi Hendrix sketched Elvis after attending one of his concerts. Decades later, it’s hard not to notice that the figure resembles a future public personality known chiefly for… the hair. And the noise.
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
As a teen, Jimi Hendrix sketched Elvis after attending one of his concerts. Decades later, it’s hard not to notice that the figure resembles a future public personality known chiefly for… the hair. And the noise.
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#JosephConrad
"I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work,— the chance to find yourself."
- Joseph Conrad
"I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work,— the chance to find yourself."
- Joseph Conrad
November 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
#JosephConrad
"I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work,— the chance to find yourself."
- Joseph Conrad
"I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work,— the chance to find yourself."
- Joseph Conrad
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“. . . it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We life, as we dream—alone. . . .”
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness (1)
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness (1)
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
“. . . it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We life, as we dream—alone. . . .”
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness (1)
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness (1)
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#TwoGents_2025
"...I have to conclude that Shakespeare cheerfully and knowingly travesties love and friendship alike, thus clearing the ground for the greatness of his high romantic comedies, from Love's Labour's Lost through Twelfth Night."
Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
"...I have to conclude that Shakespeare cheerfully and knowingly travesties love and friendship alike, thus clearing the ground for the greatness of his high romantic comedies, from Love's Labour's Lost through Twelfth Night."
Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
November 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
#TwoGents_2025
"...I have to conclude that Shakespeare cheerfully and knowingly travesties love and friendship alike, thus clearing the ground for the greatness of his high romantic comedies, from Love's Labour's Lost through Twelfth Night."
Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
"...I have to conclude that Shakespeare cheerfully and knowingly travesties love and friendship alike, thus clearing the ground for the greatness of his high romantic comedies, from Love's Labour's Lost through Twelfth Night."
Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
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“. . . it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live as we dream—alone. . . .”
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness (1)
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness (1)
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
“. . . it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live as we dream—alone. . . .”
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness (1)
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness (1)
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“And the idea that none of us can truly know anything at all—not the lives of our friends or family, not even ourselves—is a thought they’d rather be shot in the arm with their own semi-automatic rifle than face head on.” (411)
#SundaySentence
Marisha Pessl
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
#SundaySentence
Marisha Pessl
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
November 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“And the idea that none of us can truly know anything at all—not the lives of our friends or family, not even ourselves—is a thought they’d rather be shot in the arm with their own semi-automatic rifle than face head on.” (411)
#SundaySentence
Marisha Pessl
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
#SundaySentence
Marisha Pessl
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
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Also interesting is that I stumbled across a volume with "early comedies" consisting of The Two Gents, Merry Wives of Windsor & Love's Labour Lost.
November 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Also interesting is that I stumbled across a volume with "early comedies" consisting of The Two Gents, Merry Wives of Windsor & Love's Labour Lost.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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#TwoGents_2025 Starts 11/24/25-
…one of S’s earliest plays, perhaps even his first. …a prototype for future plays.
…has the virtues of that time of life: freshness, energy, pace, wholeheartedness, a desire to get other point and to speak its mind.
- RSC intro to The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1598)
…one of S’s earliest plays, perhaps even his first. …a prototype for future plays.
…has the virtues of that time of life: freshness, energy, pace, wholeheartedness, a desire to get other point and to speak its mind.
- RSC intro to The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1598)
November 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#TwoGents_2025 Starts 11/24/25-
…one of S’s earliest plays, perhaps even his first. …a prototype for future plays.
…has the virtues of that time of life: freshness, energy, pace, wholeheartedness, a desire to get other point and to speak its mind.
- RSC intro to The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1598)
…one of S’s earliest plays, perhaps even his first. …a prototype for future plays.
…has the virtues of that time of life: freshness, energy, pace, wholeheartedness, a desire to get other point and to speak its mind.
- RSC intro to The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1598)
„For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm … cleansed ourselves from its defilements … learned to live here in clean tabernacles of the soul … away we sail to fight some other world, and go through young life's old routine again.“
November 23, 2025 at 7:56 AM
„For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm … cleansed ourselves from its defilements … learned to live here in clean tabernacles of the soul … away we sail to fight some other world, and go through young life's old routine again.“