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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 19m

HELENA
…I am your spaniel …

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
II,1,202-210

William Shakespeare

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 19m

KING
You play the spaniel,
And think with wagging of your tongue to win me;
But whatsoe'er thou tak'st me for, I'm sure
Thou hast a cruel nature and a bloody.

#HenryVIII_2025
V,2,160-163

James Ward
1769-1859
Portrait of Dash, a Favourite Spaniel, the Property of Lady Frances Vane-Tempest
1819
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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 27m

„The thread led nowhere, except into ever expanding wastes of anonymity.“

#RachelCuskTogether
Outline (74)

Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 4h

of that of the Americans, they have nevertheless furnished both nations with the only finished sketches at all capable of conveying the real spirit of the whale hunt.“

#AmericanReadalong

Baleinier Français en Pêche
Kreidezeichnung
signiert H. Durand-Brager
1844
Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 4h

Herman Melville
Moby-Dick (56)

„The natural aptitude of the French for seizing the picturesqueness of things seems to be peculiarly evinced in what paintings and engravings they have of their whaling scenes. With not one tenth of England's experience in the fishery, and not the thousandth part
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Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 8h

I love this. She takes this seemingly obvious, heavy-handed metaphor and makes it brilliant, ironic. Flips it on Ryan - his symbol of change becomes a symbol of Sisyphian stagnation.

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 1d

Hello! Hope you'll stay for #KingLear_2025 - His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters (published in Quarto, 1608).
To start Mon., Oct. 20!

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 20h

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 20h

Parents often have a preference regarding the child's gender.
My parents, for example, didn't give up until they had a girl…

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 21h

😅😍

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

OLD LADY

the God of heaven
Both now and ever bless her: 'tis a girl
Promises boys hereafter.

William Shakespeare
#HenryVIII_2025
V,1,164-166

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

„Those thoughts only existed within certain structures, and I had definitively left those structures.“

#RachelCuskTogether
Outline (70)

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

as the human fingers in an artificial covering.“

Herman Melville
Moby-Dick (55)
Illustrated by Barry Moser

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

#AmericanReadalong

„… the side fin, the bones of which almost exactly answer to the bones of the human hand, minus only the thumb. This fin has four regular bone-fingers, the index, middle, ring, and little finger. But all these are permanently lodged in their fleshy covering,

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 1d

Western Sunset

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 2d

shall we make satantango, his debut novel(!), our next slow-read, after #rachelcusktogether ?

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Prize for Literature

He was recognised “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.

www.bbc.com

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 1d

Western Sky

(morning view)

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 1d

Lovell

Th’ Archbishop
Is the King’s hand and tongue; and who dare speak
One syllable against him?

Gardiner

. . . I myself have ventured
To speak my mind of him.
. . . that he is—
. . .
A most arch-heretic, a pestilence
That does infect the land:
#HenryVIII_2025
Act V s1

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Nick's Chapter-a-Day Read-along @chapteraday.bsky.social · 1d

#AmericanReadalong