I‘ll miss you! 😢
Frank Günter writes about ‚The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ in ‚From the translator's workshop‘ —
How many angels can fit on the head of a pin, or
How a small comedy can lead to deep pondering (Tr.)
—
It’s intriguing!
#TwoGents_2025
Frank Günter writes about ‚The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ in ‚From the translator's workshop‘ —
How many angels can fit on the head of a pin, or
How a small comedy can lead to deep pondering (Tr.)
—
It’s intriguing!
#TwoGents_2025
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I‘ll miss you! 😢
Frank Günter writes about ‚The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ in ‚From the translator's workshop‘ —
How many angels can fit on the head of a pin, or
How a small comedy can lead to deep pondering (Tr.)
—
It’s intriguing!
#TwoGents_2025
Frank Günter writes about ‚The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ in ‚From the translator's workshop‘ —
How many angels can fit on the head of a pin, or
How a small comedy can lead to deep pondering (Tr.)
—
It’s intriguing!
#TwoGents_2025
„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.“
„… she was nothing so solid in make, and rather less pretty in shape, but I had expended enough hard work on her to make me love her. No influential friend would have served me better.“
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness C1
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness C1
November 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
„… she was nothing so solid in make, and rather less pretty in shape, but I had expended enough hard work on her to make me love her. No influential friend would have served me better.“
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness C1
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness C1
#AmericanReadalong
„… the whaleman, as he seeks the food of light, so he lives in light.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 97.The Lamp.
Illustration by Barry Moser
„… the whaleman, as he seeks the food of light, so he lives in light.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 97.The Lamp.
Illustration by Barry Moser
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
#AmericanReadalong
„… the whaleman, as he seeks the food of light, so he lives in light.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 97.The Lamp.
Illustration by Barry Moser
„… the whaleman, as he seeks the food of light, so he lives in light.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 97.The Lamp.
Illustration by Barry Moser
#Tokarczuk25
#Flights
SYNDROME
„I'm interested in whatever shape this may take, mistakes in the making of the thing, dead ends.“
Translated by
JENNIFER CROFT
#Flights
SYNDROME
„I'm interested in whatever shape this may take, mistakes in the making of the thing, dead ends.“
Translated by
JENNIFER CROFT
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#Tokarczuk25
#Flights
SYNDROME
„I'm interested in whatever shape this may take, mistakes in the making of the thing, dead ends.“
Translated by
JENNIFER CROFT
#Flights
SYNDROME
„I'm interested in whatever shape this may take, mistakes in the making of the thing, dead ends.“
Translated by
JENNIFER CROFT
#AmericanReadalong
“During the night-watches some cynical old sailors will crawl into them [try-pots] and coil themselves away there for a nap … It is a place also for profound mathematical meditation.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 96. The Try-Works.
“During the night-watches some cynical old sailors will crawl into them [try-pots] and coil themselves away there for a nap … It is a place also for profound mathematical meditation.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 96. The Try-Works.
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
#AmericanReadalong
“During the night-watches some cynical old sailors will crawl into them [try-pots] and coil themselves away there for a nap … It is a place also for profound mathematical meditation.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 96. The Try-Works.
“During the night-watches some cynical old sailors will crawl into them [try-pots] and coil themselves away there for a nap … It is a place also for profound mathematical meditation.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 96. The Try-Works.
#AmericanReadalong
„Such an idol as that found in the secret groves of Queen Maachah in Judea; and for worshipping which, King Asa, her son, did depose her, and destroyed the idol,
1+
Asa destroying the idols, from the Bible Historiale, 1372.
„Such an idol as that found in the secret groves of Queen Maachah in Judea; and for worshipping which, King Asa, her son, did depose her, and destroyed the idol,
1+
Asa destroying the idols, from the Bible Historiale, 1372.
November 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
#AmericanReadalong
„Such an idol as that found in the secret groves of Queen Maachah in Judea; and for worshipping which, King Asa, her son, did depose her, and destroyed the idol,
1+
Asa destroying the idols, from the Bible Historiale, 1372.
„Such an idol as that found in the secret groves of Queen Maachah in Judea; and for worshipping which, King Asa, her son, did depose her, and destroyed the idol,
1+
Asa destroying the idols, from the Bible Historiale, 1372.
#AmericanReadalong
„I almost began to credit the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying the heat of anger“
Moby Dick C94
„Perhaps Paracelsus' most successful idea concerned digestion. Until then, it had been imagined as a cooking pot. Paracelsus compared it
1+
„I almost began to credit the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying the heat of anger“
Moby Dick C94
„Perhaps Paracelsus' most successful idea concerned digestion. Until then, it had been imagined as a cooking pot. Paracelsus compared it
1+
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
#AmericanReadalong
„I almost began to credit the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying the heat of anger“
Moby Dick C94
„Perhaps Paracelsus' most successful idea concerned digestion. Until then, it had been imagined as a cooking pot. Paracelsus compared it
1+
„I almost began to credit the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying the heat of anger“
Moby Dick C94
„Perhaps Paracelsus' most successful idea concerned digestion. Until then, it had been imagined as a cooking pot. Paracelsus compared it
1+
#AmericanReadalong
„So man's insanity is heaven's sense …“
Moby-Dick
Chapter 93. The Castaway
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
„So man's insanity is heaven's sense …“
Moby-Dick
Chapter 93. The Castaway
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
November 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
#AmericanReadalong
„So man's insanity is heaven's sense …“
Moby-Dick
Chapter 93. The Castaway
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
„So man's insanity is heaven's sense …“
Moby-Dick
Chapter 93. The Castaway
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
KENT
Is this the promised end?
EDGAR
Or image of that horror?
#KingLear_2025
V,3,263-264
James Barry (1741-1806)
King Lear Weeping over the Dead Body of Cordelia (1786-8)
The Tate Gallery London.
Is this the promised end?
EDGAR
Or image of that horror?
#KingLear_2025
V,3,263-264
James Barry (1741-1806)
King Lear Weeping over the Dead Body of Cordelia (1786-8)
The Tate Gallery London.
November 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
KENT
Is this the promised end?
EDGAR
Or image of that horror?
#KingLear_2025
V,3,263-264
James Barry (1741-1806)
King Lear Weeping over the Dead Body of Cordelia (1786-8)
The Tate Gallery London.
Is this the promised end?
EDGAR
Or image of that horror?
#KingLear_2025
V,3,263-264
James Barry (1741-1806)
King Lear Weeping over the Dead Body of Cordelia (1786-8)
The Tate Gallery London.
„The tidal current runs to and fro in its unceasing service, crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea.“
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness
British Online Archives
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness
British Online Archives
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
„The tidal current runs to and fro in its unceasing service, crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea.“
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness
British Online Archives
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness
British Online Archives
Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳 !
„The Turks use it in cooking …“
Moby-Dick
C92. Ambergris.
#AmericanReadalong
„Louis XIV drank, it seems, large quantities in his hygienic broths.
Marie-Antoinette enjoyed daily hot chocolate made with cocoa, vanilla, ambergris and water.
1+
„The Turks use it in cooking …“
Moby-Dick
C92. Ambergris.
#AmericanReadalong
„Louis XIV drank, it seems, large quantities in his hygienic broths.
Marie-Antoinette enjoyed daily hot chocolate made with cocoa, vanilla, ambergris and water.
1+
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳 !
„The Turks use it in cooking …“
Moby-Dick
C92. Ambergris.
#AmericanReadalong
„Louis XIV drank, it seems, large quantities in his hygienic broths.
Marie-Antoinette enjoyed daily hot chocolate made with cocoa, vanilla, ambergris and water.
1+
„The Turks use it in cooking …“
Moby-Dick
C92. Ambergris.
#AmericanReadalong
„Louis XIV drank, it seems, large quantities in his hygienic broths.
Marie-Antoinette enjoyed daily hot chocolate made with cocoa, vanilla, ambergris and water.
1+
EDGAR
Know, my name is lost;
By treason's tooth bare-gnawn, and canker-bit:
Yet am I noble as the adversary
I come to cope.
#KingLear_2025
V,3,121-124
Robert Colquhoun
Edgar in Battle Dress (Costume Design for 'King Lear') (1953)
National Galleries Scotland
Know, my name is lost;
By treason's tooth bare-gnawn, and canker-bit:
Yet am I noble as the adversary
I come to cope.
#KingLear_2025
V,3,121-124
Robert Colquhoun
Edgar in Battle Dress (Costume Design for 'King Lear') (1953)
National Galleries Scotland
November 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
EDGAR
Know, my name is lost;
By treason's tooth bare-gnawn, and canker-bit:
Yet am I noble as the adversary
I come to cope.
#KingLear_2025
V,3,121-124
Robert Colquhoun
Edgar in Battle Dress (Costume Design for 'King Lear') (1953)
National Galleries Scotland
Know, my name is lost;
By treason's tooth bare-gnawn, and canker-bit:
Yet am I noble as the adversary
I come to cope.
#KingLear_2025
V,3,121-124
Robert Colquhoun
Edgar in Battle Dress (Costume Design for 'King Lear') (1953)
National Galleries Scotland
#AmericanReadalong
„His boat's crew were all in high excitement, eagerly helping their chief, and looking as anxious as gold-hunters.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick C91
Giovanni Battista Naldini
Collecting Ambergris
1572
Palazzo Vecchio (Palazzo della Signoria) Florence, Italy
„His boat's crew were all in high excitement, eagerly helping their chief, and looking as anxious as gold-hunters.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick C91
Giovanni Battista Naldini
Collecting Ambergris
1572
Palazzo Vecchio (Palazzo della Signoria) Florence, Italy
November 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
#AmericanReadalong
„His boat's crew were all in high excitement, eagerly helping their chief, and looking as anxious as gold-hunters.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick C91
Giovanni Battista Naldini
Collecting Ambergris
1572
Palazzo Vecchio (Palazzo della Signoria) Florence, Italy
„His boat's crew were all in high excitement, eagerly helping their chief, and looking as anxious as gold-hunters.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick C91
Giovanni Battista Naldini
Collecting Ambergris
1572
Palazzo Vecchio (Palazzo della Signoria) Florence, Italy
#AmericanReadalong
“De balena vero sufficit, si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam." BRACTON, L. 3, C.3.
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 90. Heads or Tails
Lex, rex and a failed impeachment: „for there is no rex (king) where will rules rather than lex (law)“ — Henry de Bracton
“De balena vero sufficit, si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam." BRACTON, L. 3, C.3.
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 90. Heads or Tails
Lex, rex and a failed impeachment: „for there is no rex (king) where will rules rather than lex (law)“ — Henry de Bracton
November 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
#AmericanReadalong
“De balena vero sufficit, si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam." BRACTON, L. 3, C.3.
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 90. Heads or Tails
Lex, rex and a failed impeachment: „for there is no rex (king) where will rules rather than lex (law)“ — Henry de Bracton
“De balena vero sufficit, si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam." BRACTON, L. 3, C.3.
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 90. Heads or Tails
Lex, rex and a failed impeachment: „for there is no rex (king) where will rules rather than lex (law)“ — Henry de Bracton
LEAR
You do me wrong to take me out o'th' grave;
Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
Do scald like molten lead.
#KingLear_2025
IV,7,45-48
The Meeting of Lear and Cordelia (1784) by Benjamin West
The Huntington
You do me wrong to take me out o'th' grave;
Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
Do scald like molten lead.
#KingLear_2025
IV,7,45-48
The Meeting of Lear and Cordelia (1784) by Benjamin West
The Huntington
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
LEAR
You do me wrong to take me out o'th' grave;
Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
Do scald like molten lead.
#KingLear_2025
IV,7,45-48
The Meeting of Lear and Cordelia (1784) by Benjamin West
The Huntington
You do me wrong to take me out o'th' grave;
Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
Do scald like molten lead.
#KingLear_2025
IV,7,45-48
The Meeting of Lear and Cordelia (1784) by Benjamin West
The Huntington
#AmericanReadalong
„Is it not a saying in every one’s mouth, Possession is half of the law: that is, regardless of how the thing came into possession? But often possession is the whole of the law.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 89
Carl Spitzweg
Fiat Justitia
c. 1857
KVdB
„Is it not a saying in every one’s mouth, Possession is half of the law: that is, regardless of how the thing came into possession? But often possession is the whole of the law.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 89
Carl Spitzweg
Fiat Justitia
c. 1857
KVdB
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
#AmericanReadalong
„Is it not a saying in every one’s mouth, Possession is half of the law: that is, regardless of how the thing came into possession? But often possession is the whole of the law.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 89
Carl Spitzweg
Fiat Justitia
c. 1857
KVdB
„Is it not a saying in every one’s mouth, Possession is half of the law: that is, regardless of how the thing came into possession? But often possession is the whole of the law.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 89
Carl Spitzweg
Fiat Justitia
c. 1857
KVdB
The usurer hangs the
cozener.
#KingLear_2025
IV,6,160
Moritz Retzsch
Edgar führt den blinden Grafen von Gloucester nach Dover - Illustration zu „König Lear“
IV. Akt, Szene 6
um 1885
Hamburger Kunsthalle
cozener.
#KingLear_2025
IV,6,160
Moritz Retzsch
Edgar führt den blinden Grafen von Gloucester nach Dover - Illustration zu „König Lear“
IV. Akt, Szene 6
um 1885
Hamburger Kunsthalle
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The usurer hangs the
cozener.
#KingLear_2025
IV,6,160
Moritz Retzsch
Edgar führt den blinden Grafen von Gloucester nach Dover - Illustration zu „König Lear“
IV. Akt, Szene 6
um 1885
Hamburger Kunsthalle
cozener.
#KingLear_2025
IV,6,160
Moritz Retzsch
Edgar führt den blinden Grafen von Gloucester nach Dover - Illustration zu „König Lear“
IV. Akt, Szene 6
um 1885
Hamburger Kunsthalle
#AmericanReadalong
„… some have surmised that the man who first thus entitled this sort of Ottoman whale, must have read the memoirs of Vidocq, and informed himself what sort of a country-schoolmaster that famous Frenchman was in his younger days,
1+
„… some have surmised that the man who first thus entitled this sort of Ottoman whale, must have read the memoirs of Vidocq, and informed himself what sort of a country-schoolmaster that famous Frenchman was in his younger days,
1+
November 13, 2025 at 12:44 PM
#AmericanReadalong
„… some have surmised that the man who first thus entitled this sort of Ottoman whale, must have read the memoirs of Vidocq, and informed himself what sort of a country-schoolmaster that famous Frenchman was in his younger days,
1+
„… some have surmised that the man who first thus entitled this sort of Ottoman whale, must have read the memoirs of Vidocq, and informed himself what sort of a country-schoolmaster that famous Frenchman was in his younger days,
1+
#RachelCuskTogether
„An astrologer emailed me to say she had important news for me concerning events in my immediate future.“
Transit
p1
#Buchbeginn
„An astrologer emailed me to say she had important news for me concerning events in my immediate future.“
Transit
p1
#Buchbeginn
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM
#RachelCuskTogether
„An astrologer emailed me to say she had important news for me concerning events in my immediate future.“
Transit
p1
#Buchbeginn
„An astrologer emailed me to say she had important news for me concerning events in my immediate future.“
Transit
p1
#Buchbeginn
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+
#AmericanReadalong
Moby-Dick
C87
Arion Press Ed.
…when a general pausing commotion among the whales gave animating token that they were now at last under the influence of that strange perplexity of inert irresolution, which, when the fisher men perceive it in the whale, they say he is gallied.*
Moby-Dick
C87
Arion Press Ed.
…when a general pausing commotion among the whales gave animating token that they were now at last under the influence of that strange perplexity of inert irresolution, which, when the fisher men perceive it in the whale, they say he is gallied.*
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
#AmericanReadalong
Moby-Dick
C87
Arion Press Ed.
…when a general pausing commotion among the whales gave animating token that they were now at last under the influence of that strange perplexity of inert irresolution, which, when the fisher men perceive it in the whale, they say he is gallied.*
Moby-Dick
C87
Arion Press Ed.
…when a general pausing commotion among the whales gave animating token that they were now at last under the influence of that strange perplexity of inert irresolution, which, when the fisher men perceive it in the whale, they say he is gallied.*
REGAN
If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor,
Preferment falls on him that cuts him off.
William Shakespeare
Arden London/New York 1972
#KingLear_2025
IV,5,37-38
Oswald, Regan
RSC, King Lear
If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor,
Preferment falls on him that cuts him off.
William Shakespeare
Arden London/New York 1972
#KingLear_2025
IV,5,37-38
Oswald, Regan
RSC, King Lear
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
REGAN
If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor,
Preferment falls on him that cuts him off.
William Shakespeare
Arden London/New York 1972
#KingLear_2025
IV,5,37-38
Oswald, Regan
RSC, King Lear
If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor,
Preferment falls on him that cuts him off.
William Shakespeare
Arden London/New York 1972
#KingLear_2025
IV,5,37-38
Oswald, Regan
RSC, King Lear
#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.
Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳 !
… „this necessity for the whale's rising exposes him to all the fatal hazards of the chase.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 85
#AmericanReadalong
Illustration: Gilbert Wilson
… „this necessity for the whale's rising exposes him to all the fatal hazards of the chase.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 85
#AmericanReadalong
Illustration: Gilbert Wilson
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳 !
… „this necessity for the whale's rising exposes him to all the fatal hazards of the chase.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 85
#AmericanReadalong
Illustration: Gilbert Wilson
… „this necessity for the whale's rising exposes him to all the fatal hazards of the chase.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 85
#AmericanReadalong
Illustration: Gilbert Wilson