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AliceInTheSky
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Decorously panicking. Reading poetry to the Mad Hatter. Listening to Haydn with the Walrus. Hanging on to the grin of the Cheshire Cat. Arts, films, stuff.
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‘And suddenly several wights appeared with the right child and placed it on the stove, and took their own fellow away with them.’

📚Brothers Grimm, The Wights, from Children’s and Household Tales, 1812-1815

Illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach, 1995

#BookWormSat #GoblinsFairiesSpritesAndCo
Three old, short, mean looking, hooded, partially bearded creatures are carrying a huge naked big eyed baby looking as surprised as you probably are.
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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‘Let me out! Let me out!’

📚Brothers Grimm, The Genie in the Glass, from Children’s and Household Tales, 1812-1815

Illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach, 1995

#BookWormSat #GoblinsFairiesSpritesAndCo
Seen from behind, there is a boy clad in brown, wearing breeches, a big ax in his hand, standing next to the trunk of a big tree. From between the roots of the tree, exiting from a tiny glass, and becoming HUGE in the air, there is a round brown grey haired ghost. In the background: a lovely valley.
November 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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‘ “But I will tell you a riddle first” he said, “if you can solve it, you’ll be free and not in my power anymore.”’

📚Brothers Grimm, The Devil and His Grandmother, from Children’s and Household Tales, 1812-1815
Illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach, 1995

#BookWormSat #GoblinsFairiesSpritesAndCo
The devil*, disguised as green winged dragon, flying three deserted* soldiers through the air above what appears to be burning earth. *spoilers
November 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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‘When wishing still did some good…’

📚Brothers Grimm, The Frog King from Children’s and Household Tales, 1812-1815
Illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach, 1995

#BookWormSat #GoblinsFairiesSpritesAndCo
Goblin, expression defiant, all dressed in red incl. a pointed feathered hat, hands on a big sword, standing on a huge roundish dark stone.
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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RIP Hark Bohm
Fotos: playing Taschner in Fassbender‘s Lili Marleen, 1981
As pianist, seated and playing, looking up at Lili who’s standing next to the piano. Man in Nazi uniform behind her. Same As soldier seen from behind taking his farewell from Lili. On the poster for the film
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Art challenge part 2:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
3/20

Luca della Robbia, detail from the Cantoria, 1438
Seven children /angels singing: two shorter ones are holding the book, the others look at it from behind.
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Art challenge part 2:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days.
No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
2/20

Double Dada:
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917
Raoul Hausmann, The Mechanical Head, 1920
White ceramic urinal Brown wooden head. On its top a small metal cylinder. On the forehead: a coin like bronze metal object, 22 written on a slip of paper, the section 1-10 of a tape measure. Attached to its right ear: a box . Attached to its left ear: a rigid tape measure and something vice-like.
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Art challenge part 2:
Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures.
#blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture
1/20
Constantin Brâncuși, Mademoiselle Pogani I, 1912
Stylised marble sculpture of a woman’s head. Huge eyes, graciously falling hair or head scarf
November 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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But don’t (some?) ducks have 9x9 lives? (Is that right @wildobliquities.bsky.social?)
I instantly fell for your dog - those eyes, and all of her, and she reminds me of mine who regularly transitioned from killing her hen (see below) to being an angel (see below) in under 3 seconds
Hen dog toy with googly eyes Short haired and floppy eared brown dog holding a mouse toy and looking innocent
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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New example of oxymoron dropped:
“If the gaps were filled, it would be less of a book”, he said.
November 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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‘We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost. ‘

📚E.M.Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929
🎬 directed by E.Berger, 2022

#BookWormSat #War
Closeup of a young soldier in uniform, unseeing eyes, desperation on his face. In the background: his comrades.
November 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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‘Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying, and the same agony.’

📚E.M.Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929
🎬 directed by D.Mann, 1979

#BookWormSat #War
Closeup of a young soldier in uniform. He’s leaning on a piece of wood against which his gun is propped with its bayonet fixed. He’s looking exhausted/fed up/forlorn and profoundly sad.
November 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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‘But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand grenades, of your bayonets, of your rifle; now I see your wife, and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade.’

📚E.M.Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
🎬 directed by L.Milestone, 1930

#BookWormSat #War
Closeup of three soldiers: two seen from behind, one, shouldering his gun, is turning around so his face, expression disillusioned, can be seen. Superimposed, the image of a cemetery full of simple wooden crosses
November 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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What’s your take on Odilon Redon*, Grise?
Asking cos I kept seeing those below and others when reading your texts*.
(in case of doubt: me like both)
Huge eyes next to a tree Unidentifiable creature emerging from unidentifiable tailed entity Spider, crying Spider, laughing
November 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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#JustWatched #filmsky

Seemed appropriate today
(spoiler: it’s NOT about burials, at least not mainly) Watchable
An old white man and a middle aged black man (Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Fox) sitting on the steps of a building with colonnades (?)
November 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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‘The corpses to the woman said:
You will be like us when you’re dead!
The woman to the corpses said:
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! ‘

📚Alvin Schwartz, In The Graveyard, illustrated by Dirk Zimmer

#BookWormSat #Death
A stout woman in a red dotted dress is screaming in horror, arms raised, as two corpses in their shrouds, looking surprised, are leaving their coffins. Behind her: gravestones and two sextons at work.
November 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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‘Death will be the end of fear
and the fear of dying
………….
fear where water turns into steel
…………..
fear as the sun ignites in my lap
fear as night can’t be shut off
………….’

✍️ Anne Sexton, The Death King
📷 own, The Scream

#BookWormSat #Death #poetry
A stone that looks like someone in profile, screaming. In the background, on the sand: the long shadow of a person.
November 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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‘…”for it might end, you know,” said Alice, “in my going out like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?” ‘

📕 Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
🎬 Jonathan Miller, Alice in Wonderland

#BookWormSat #Death
B&W image of a long haired girl in a dress seen from behind, running down a long corridor. On the left, a series of almost floor-length open windows with white billowing curtains.
November 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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‘ In a sense, we all are crashing to our death from the top story of our birth to the flat stones of the churchyard and wondering with an immortal Alice in Wonderland at the patterns of the passing wall.’

📚 V.Nabokov, Lectures on Lit.
📷 own, still from J. Miller’s Alice in Wonderland

#BookWormSat
Two overlapping stills from the film showing Alice’s face in close-up, eyes closed, falling asleep, on the brink of falling down the rabbit hole.
November 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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‘…… To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
when we have shuffled off this mortal coil……’

🎭 W. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene I
🩰Martha Graham, Lamentation

#BookWormSat #Death
Martha covered head to toe in a floor-length wide dark garment, head bowed, face solemn.
November 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Repost this with you and your significant other (not really):
Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Philadelphia Story
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Irresponsibly posting my location on social media
October 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Francis Bacon, #BOTD 1909

Seated figure, detail
Man in shirtsleeves, sitting, facial traits derailed
October 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Love your beach crow. Would like to introduce a beach crow of my acquaintance. Feisty is the word, I think
Hooded crow walking on a beach
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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I KNEW I’d seen you before!
(Sorry. I suppose I’d better leave now)
October 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM