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Tori
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Here for a good time and a long time.

journalism / medieval lit / fountain pens / cat images
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drop a ship that's not from Star Wars or Star Trek
The oil painting 'The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838' by J. M. W. Turner. A steam tugboat tows a larger sailing ship with sails furled, on a wide river at sunset. The painting's colors are soft and blended, but the ship and tugboat are clearly detailed.
March 17, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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yes fountain pens! and yes poetry! after a long break from both.

As Kingfishers Catch Fire - Gerard Manley Hopkins
A detail picture of a notebook with blue cursive writing, open on a table. A translucent white fountain pen with a silver clip is lying on the notebook. A notebook page with cursive writing in medium blue ink. An iridescent white fountain pen with a silver clip lies on the edge of the notebook. Text is the poem As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Some words have accents or are written in print. Text reads: As Kingfishers Catch Fire. Gerard Manley Hopkins. As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, Crying What I do is me: for that I came. I say more: the just man justices; Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces; Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is — Christ — for Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men's faces. A detail shot of the poem's first stanza. A detail shot of the poem's second stanza. A person's finger is holding the page flat.
March 10, 2024 at 7:02 PM