5/7 In the play she had him killed when he spurned her affections, and she kissed the head of the corpse.
🎨Lucien Levy-Dhurmer
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🎨Lucien Levy-Dhurmer
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Salome - Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
Salome by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer Salome kissing the head of John the Baptist Salome was a popular subject in Victorian times. More examples can be found here
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January 28, 2026 at 5:50 PM
5/7 In the play she had him killed when he spurned her affections, and she kissed the head of the corpse.
🎨Lucien Levy-Dhurmer
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🎨Lucien Levy-Dhurmer
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2/7 Salome was the daughter of Herodias, who was furious over John the Baptist's condemnation of her. Herod had a birthday celebration and Herodias encouraged her daughter to dance.
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Salome Dancing - Gustave Moreau by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
Salome Dancing, also known as Tattooed Salome, by Gustave Moreau
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January 28, 2026 at 5:50 PM
2/7 Salome was the daughter of Herodias, who was furious over John the Baptist's condemnation of her. Herod had a birthday celebration and Herodias encouraged her daughter to dance.
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January 28, 2026 at 3:23 PM
"If you are restricted in your range by poverty, if you cannot buy books and newspapers, for instance, you are but confined to the most significant and vital experiences. Money is not required to buy one necessity for the soul."
- Henry David Thoreau, 'Walden'
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- Henry David Thoreau, 'Walden'
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January 26, 2026 at 11:12 AM
"If you are restricted in your range by poverty, if you cannot buy books and newspapers, for instance, you are but confined to the most significant and vital experiences. Money is not required to buy one necessity for the soul."
- Henry David Thoreau, 'Walden'
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- Henry David Thoreau, 'Walden'
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"Gut instinct. The part of you which doesn't reason. The certainty for which there is no back-reference. Because time is reversed. Tock, tick goes the universe and then recovers itself, but it was enough, you were in there and you bloody know."
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
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Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
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January 26, 2026 at 9:08 AM
"Gut instinct. The part of you which doesn't reason. The certainty for which there is no back-reference. Because time is reversed. Tock, tick goes the universe and then recovers itself, but it was enough, you were in there and you bloody know."
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
#bookchatweekly #booksky
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
#bookchatweekly #booksky
Goya
Nightmare crammed with unfathomable things,
witches roasting fetuses in a pan,
crones at a mirror served by naked girls
who straighten stockings to entice the Fiend
Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, translated by Richard Howard
#poetry #bookchatweekly #booksky #artsky
Nightmare crammed with unfathomable things,
witches roasting fetuses in a pan,
crones at a mirror served by naked girls
who straighten stockings to entice the Fiend
Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, translated by Richard Howard
#poetry #bookchatweekly #booksky #artsky
January 26, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Goya
Nightmare crammed with unfathomable things,
witches roasting fetuses in a pan,
crones at a mirror served by naked girls
who straighten stockings to entice the Fiend
Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, translated by Richard Howard
#poetry #bookchatweekly #booksky #artsky
Nightmare crammed with unfathomable things,
witches roasting fetuses in a pan,
crones at a mirror served by naked girls
who straighten stockings to entice the Fiend
Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, translated by Richard Howard
#poetry #bookchatweekly #booksky #artsky
the things we loathed become the things we love
(Aux objects répugnants nous trouvons des appas)
Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, translated by Richard Howard
#poetry #booksky #bookchatweekly
(Aux objects répugnants nous trouvons des appas)
Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, translated by Richard Howard
#poetry #booksky #bookchatweekly
January 26, 2026 at 1:21 AM
the things we loathed become the things we love
(Aux objects répugnants nous trouvons des appas)
Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, translated by Richard Howard
#poetry #booksky #bookchatweekly
(Aux objects répugnants nous trouvons des appas)
Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, translated by Richard Howard
#poetry #booksky #bookchatweekly
💚🌍💚"If you lie on the earth somewhere you hear a sound like a vast breath, as though it were the very inspiration of earth herself, and all the living things on her."
📖Virginia Woolf.
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📖Virginia Woolf.
#FolkloreSunday #BookChatWeekly
January 25, 2026 at 6:02 PM
💚🌍💚"If you lie on the earth somewhere you hear a sound like a vast breath, as though it were the very inspiration of earth herself, and all the living things on her."
📖Virginia Woolf.
#FolkloreSunday #BookChatWeekly
📖Virginia Woolf.
#FolkloreSunday #BookChatWeekly
“To dream a #garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.”
― Stanley Crawford
🎨John Batten
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― Stanley Crawford
🎨John Batten
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Amoretta and Time in The Garden of Adonis - John Batten by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
Amoretta and Time in the Garden of Adonis - John Batten
From The Faerie Queen
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January 24, 2026 at 3:57 PM
“To dream a #garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.”
― Stanley Crawford
🎨John Batten
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― Stanley Crawford
🎨John Batten
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January 24, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Image by Ritva Voutila
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January 24, 2026 at 7:13 AM
2/2 "But why did your tears soak through the clay,
And why did your sobs wake me where I lay?
I was away, far enough away:
Let me sleep now till the Judgment Day."
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And why did your sobs wake me where I lay?
I was away, far enough away:
Let me sleep now till the Judgment Day."
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Elegy - William Adolphe Bouguereau by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
Elegy, also known as Douleur d'amour, painted in 1899 William Adolphe Bouguereau. Please see my shop for more work from Bouguereau
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January 23, 2026 at 1:45 PM
2/2 "But why did your tears soak through the clay,
And why did your sobs wake me where I lay?
I was away, far enough away:
Let me sleep now till the Judgment Day."
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And why did your sobs wake me where I lay?
I was away, far enough away:
Let me sleep now till the Judgment Day."
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1/2 The Poor Ghost - Christina Rossetti
"I go home alone to my bed,
Dug deep at the foot and deep at the head,
Roofed in with a load of lead,
Warm enough for the forgotten dead.
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"I go home alone to my bed,
Dug deep at the foot and deep at the head,
Roofed in with a load of lead,
Warm enough for the forgotten dead.
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Gone But Not Forgotten - John William Waterhouse by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
Gone but not forgotten is an 1873 Waterhouse painting. Please look in my shop for more work by Waterhouse and his contemporaries.
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January 23, 2026 at 1:45 PM
1/2 The Poor Ghost - Christina Rossetti
"I go home alone to my bed,
Dug deep at the foot and deep at the head,
Roofed in with a load of lead,
Warm enough for the forgotten dead.
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"I go home alone to my bed,
Dug deep at the foot and deep at the head,
Roofed in with a load of lead,
Warm enough for the forgotten dead.
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"The whole Romantic sham... It's what happened to the Enlightenment, isn't it? ... A century of intellectual rigour turned in on itself. A mind of chaos suspected of genius. In a setting of cheap thrills and false emotion."
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
#bookchatweekly
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
#bookchatweekly
January 22, 2026 at 11:10 AM
"The whole Romantic sham... It's what happened to the Enlightenment, isn't it? ... A century of intellectual rigour turned in on itself. A mind of chaos suspected of genius. In a setting of cheap thrills and false emotion."
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
#bookchatweekly
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
#bookchatweekly
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January 21, 2026 at 4:43 PM
1/2 St Agnes was patron saint of virgins. On St. Agnes Eve, young girls would perform rituals to see who they would marry in their dreams. Keats wrote a poem about it, inspiring several artists.
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The Eve of St Agnes - John Everett Millais 1863 by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
The Eve of St Agnes - John Everett Millais 1863
Based on the poem by John Keats about the folklore ritual girls would perform.
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January 21, 2026 at 3:45 PM
1/2 St Agnes was patron saint of virgins. On St. Agnes Eve, young girls would perform rituals to see who they would marry in their dreams. Keats wrote a poem about it, inspiring several artists.
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"I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal—having to be so sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
#amreading #shortfiction #shortstories #womenwriters #bookchatweekly
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
#amreading #shortfiction #shortstories #womenwriters #bookchatweekly
January 21, 2026 at 6:36 AM
"I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal—having to be so sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
#amreading #shortfiction #shortstories #womenwriters #bookchatweekly
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
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Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.
For context: I published my 15th book last year. The advance I received for it was considerably less than £6,600.
For context: I published my 15th book last year. The advance I received for it was considerably less than £6,600.
Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
January 20, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Dear #booksky #poetry people who know about such things, I would like to read Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil, but because I am stupid and only know English I have to read it in translation. Is there a recommended one or are they all much the same?
#bookchatweekly
#bookchatweekly
January 19, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Dear #booksky #poetry people who know about such things, I would like to read Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil, but because I am stupid and only know English I have to read it in translation. Is there a recommended one or are they all much the same?
#bookchatweekly
#bookchatweekly
