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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 6h

There are no titles in my edition. The exception is Henry VIII: his name is replaced by KING.

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 17h

Katharine

Spirits of peace, where are ye?
#HenryVIII_2025
Act IV s2 (83)

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 19h

"And in fact it was obvious, from certain features in her apartment, that she regarded writing as a profession worthy of the greatest trust & respect.
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The room itself was quite small & dark. Yet there was nothing you really needed that wasn't there."

Ch.3 #RachelCuskTogether #Outline Exactly.

Matisse, The Silence Living in Houses 1947

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 18h

Is it struggling to find a room on Manhattan? I suppose yes …

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Nick's Chapter-a-Day Read-along @chapteraday.bsky.social · 20h

#AmericanReadalong

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 23h

actual size and to be accommodating a full orchestral assembly, brass, strings and all.“

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 23h

#RachelCuskTogether
Outline (54)

„It was, perhaps, a form of discipline, almost of asceticism, a temporary banishing of the self and its utterances - in any case, Clelia's symphonies in their serried ranks predominated. When you put one on, the apartment instantly seemed to grow ten times its

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 23h

KATHERINE

In which I have commended to his goodness
The model of our chaste loves, his young daughter
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(She is young and of a noble modest nature,
I hope she will deserve well)

#HenryVIII_2025
IV,2,131-136

Mary Tudor (1516-58) went down in history as “Bloody Mary“.

Mary Tudor, Fitzmuseum

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

#AmericanReadalong

“And as for Pirates, when they chance to cross each other's cross-bones, the first hail is—‚How many skulls?‘—the same way that whalers hail— ‚How many barrels?‘“

Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 53. THE GAM.
Illustrated by Barry Moser

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

Griffith

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;
Exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading;
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not,
But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
#HenryVIII_2025
Act IV s2 (51-54)

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

#AmericanReadalong

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Miss Mainwaring @miss-mainwaring.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you @nemimeli.bsky.social ! I also found this short history of the proposed college really interesting. ipswichhistory.com/2014/04/19/w...

WOLSEY’S GATE

When you walk through Westminster and admire the impressive white stone that comprises the Palace of Whitehall, there’s a good chance part of what you’re looking at was supposed to be a Tudor colle…

ipswichhistory.com

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

Shakespeare provides so many clues for background stories.

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

Its a demanding study about strength, usefulness, beauty 🥰

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

„Obviously she doesn't entirely understand the process, but in a way she's got a point.

#RachelCuskTogether
Outline
(47)

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

Redstone, Lilian J., Ipswich Through the Ages, East Anglian Magazine Ltd, 1948.

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

In 1532, all the ‘timber, lead, wainscot and white stone of divers kind’ that remained in Ipswich, waiting to be used for the construction of the college, were packed up and taken by sea from Ipswich to the Galley Key by London Tower, ‘to be used for the king’s buildings at Westminster’.

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

GRIFFITH

Those twins of learning that he rais'd in you,
Ipswich and Oxford; one of which fell with him,
Unwilling to outlive the good that did it

William Shakespeare
#HenryVIII_2025
IV,2,58-60

Wolsey’s Gate in Ipswich

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

#AmericanReadalong

Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 52. The Albatross.
Illustrated by Barry Moser

„Ship ahoy! Have ye seen the White Whale?“

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 2d

I second that! 🙏😊📚

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 2d

First Gentleman

God save you, sir! Where have you been broiling?

Third Gentleman

Among the crowd i’ th’ Abbey, where a finger
Could not be wedged in more. I am stifled
With the mere rankness of their joy.
#HenryVIII_2025
Act IV s1 (56-59)

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 2d

„I asked him why he had come back, after he finished his Masters, and he said there were a lot of reasons … One of them, in fact, was the very thing he had liked most about America at first, which was the feeling that no one really came from anywhere.“

#RachelCuskTogether
Outline (42)

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Nick's Chapter-a-Day Read-along @chapteraday.bsky.social · 2d

#AmericanReadalong

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 2d

„The Order of the Coronation.
8. A canopy, born by four of the Cinque Ports, under it the Queen, in her robe; in her hair, richly adorned with pearl, crowned.“

#HenryVIII_2025
IV,1

Anne was seated in her litter beneath a cloth of gold which was carried by the Four Wardens of the Cinque Ports …

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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 3d

#MelvilleMonday +1

Below is Melville's footnote to his poem The Conflict of Convictions. Note the date – just a few months before the start of the Civil War.🕯️

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