David Reader 🐳📚🐦
@thepaleusher.bsky.social
Constant reader, occasional writer living near San Diego
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~Thanksgiving~
What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, —
The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
- Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
From my wife's walk:
What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, —
The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
- Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
From my wife's walk:
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
~Thanksgiving~
What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, —
The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
- Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
From my wife's walk:
What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, —
The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy.
- Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
From my wife's walk:
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#TwoGents_2025
II,1,66-70
SPEED
If you love her, you cannot see her.
VALENTINE
Why?
SPEED
Because Love is blind. O that you had mine eyes, or your own eyes had the lights they were wont to have, when you chid at Sir Proteus, for going ungartered.
Tizian
Venus Blindfolding Cupid
detail
II,1,66-70
SPEED
If you love her, you cannot see her.
VALENTINE
Why?
SPEED
Because Love is blind. O that you had mine eyes, or your own eyes had the lights they were wont to have, when you chid at Sir Proteus, for going ungartered.
Tizian
Venus Blindfolding Cupid
detail
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
#TwoGents_2025
II,1,66-70
SPEED
If you love her, you cannot see her.
VALENTINE
Why?
SPEED
Because Love is blind. O that you had mine eyes, or your own eyes had the lights they were wont to have, when you chid at Sir Proteus, for going ungartered.
Tizian
Venus Blindfolding Cupid
detail
II,1,66-70
SPEED
If you love her, you cannot see her.
VALENTINE
Why?
SPEED
Because Love is blind. O that you had mine eyes, or your own eyes had the lights they were wont to have, when you chid at Sir Proteus, for going ungartered.
Tizian
Venus Blindfolding Cupid
detail
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SPEED.
Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto
her lover.
All this I speak in print, for in print I found it. Why
muse you, sir? 'Tis dinnertime.
Act II s1 #TwoGents_2025 Clever Sylvia, slow Valentine, perceptive servant Speed. Delightful scene!
Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto
her lover.
All this I speak in print, for in print I found it. Why
muse you, sir? 'Tis dinnertime.
Act II s1 #TwoGents_2025 Clever Sylvia, slow Valentine, perceptive servant Speed. Delightful scene!
November 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
SPEED.
Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto
her lover.
All this I speak in print, for in print I found it. Why
muse you, sir? 'Tis dinnertime.
Act II s1 #TwoGents_2025 Clever Sylvia, slow Valentine, perceptive servant Speed. Delightful scene!
Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto
her lover.
All this I speak in print, for in print I found it. Why
muse you, sir? 'Tis dinnertime.
Act II s1 #TwoGents_2025 Clever Sylvia, slow Valentine, perceptive servant Speed. Delightful scene!
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this day’s wonder
November 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
this day’s wonder
PROTEUS
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away!
#TwoGents_2025
Act I s3 (84-87)
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away!
#TwoGents_2025
Act I s3 (84-87)
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
PROTEUS
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away!
#TwoGents_2025
Act I s3 (84-87)
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away!
#TwoGents_2025
Act I s3 (84-87)
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PANTHINO
Sir Proteus, your father calls for you,
He is in haste, therefore I pray you go.
PROTEUS
Why, this it is: my heart accords thereto,
And yet a thousand times it answers „no“.
#2Gents_2025
I,3,88-91
Arden London/New York 1969
Panthino
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
Sir Proteus, your father calls for you,
He is in haste, therefore I pray you go.
PROTEUS
Why, this it is: my heart accords thereto,
And yet a thousand times it answers „no“.
#2Gents_2025
I,3,88-91
Arden London/New York 1969
Panthino
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage—who can tell?—but truth—truth stripped of its cloak of time.
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness (2)
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness (2)
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage—who can tell?—but truth—truth stripped of its cloak of time.
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness (2)
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness (2)
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#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness II
„between whiles I had to look after the savage who was fireman. He was an improved specimen; he could fire up a vertical boiler. He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat,
Heart of Darkness II
„between whiles I had to look after the savage who was fireman. He was an improved specimen; he could fire up a vertical boiler. He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat,
November 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
#JosephConrad
Heart of Darkness II
„between whiles I had to look after the savage who was fireman. He was an improved specimen; he could fire up a vertical boiler. He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat,
Heart of Darkness II
„between whiles I had to look after the savage who was fireman. He was an improved specimen; he could fire up a vertical boiler. He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat,
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Marlow feels an uneasy kinship with the “primitive,” fearing he sees pieces of himself in it. So he clings to the engine room and its tasks, avoiding the pull of his own inner truth. Sailing becomes a way to flee himself. #JosephConrad
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Marlow feels an uneasy kinship with the “primitive,” fearing he sees pieces of himself in it. So he clings to the engine room and its tasks, avoiding the pull of his own inner truth. Sailing becomes a way to flee himself. #JosephConrad
Along the way
red and green
red and green
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Along the way
red and green
red and green
JULIA
O hateful hands, to tear such loving words!
Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey,
And kill the bees, that yield it, with your stings!
I’ll kiss each several paper for amends.
#2Gents_2025
Act I s2 (105-108)
She reads a love letter from Proteus
O hateful hands, to tear such loving words!
Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey,
And kill the bees, that yield it, with your stings!
I’ll kiss each several paper for amends.
#2Gents_2025
Act I s2 (105-108)
She reads a love letter from Proteus
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
JULIA
O hateful hands, to tear such loving words!
Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey,
And kill the bees, that yield it, with your stings!
I’ll kiss each several paper for amends.
#2Gents_2025
Act I s2 (105-108)
She reads a love letter from Proteus
O hateful hands, to tear such loving words!
Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey,
And kill the bees, that yield it, with your stings!
I’ll kiss each several paper for amends.
#2Gents_2025
Act I s2 (105-108)
She reads a love letter from Proteus
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JULIA
They do not love that do not show their love.
#2Gents_2025
I,2,31
Julia and Lucetta with Proteus's letter.
Illustration by Walter Crane, undated.
Folger Shakespeare Library.
They do not love that do not show their love.
#2Gents_2025
I,2,31
Julia and Lucetta with Proteus's letter.
Illustration by Walter Crane, undated.
Folger Shakespeare Library.
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
JULIA
They do not love that do not show their love.
#2Gents_2025
I,2,31
Julia and Lucetta with Proteus's letter.
Illustration by Walter Crane, undated.
Folger Shakespeare Library.
They do not love that do not show their love.
#2Gents_2025
I,2,31
Julia and Lucetta with Proteus's letter.
Illustration by Walter Crane, undated.
Folger Shakespeare Library.
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#Winter has come sooooo early this year! Trying to make the best of it.
At least I love my view!
#MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday
#MtMansfield
#Vermont
At least I love my view!
#MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday
#MtMansfield
#Vermont
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
#Winter has come sooooo early this year! Trying to make the best of it.
At least I love my view!
#MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday
#MtMansfield
#Vermont
At least I love my view!
#MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday
#MtMansfield
#Vermont
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#JosephConrad
"The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."
"The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
#JosephConrad
"The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."
"The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."
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Laurence Sterne - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Laurence Sterne - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
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November 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
VALENTINE
Were’t not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honoured love,
I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
#2Gents_2025
Act I s1 (3-8)
Were’t not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honoured love,
I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
#2Gents_2025
Act I s1 (3-8)
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
VALENTINE
Were’t not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honoured love,
I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
#2Gents_2025
Act I s1 (3-8)
Were’t not affection chains thy tender days
To the sweet glances of thy honoured love,
I rather would entreat thy company
To see the wonders of the world abroad,
Than, living dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
#2Gents_2025
Act I s1 (3-8)
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PROTEUS
I leave myself, my friends, and all, for love:
Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphos'd me;
Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,
War with good counsel, set the world at nought;
Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.
#2Gents_2025
I,1,63-69
Menelaus captures Proteus
I leave myself, my friends, and all, for love:
Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphos'd me;
Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,
War with good counsel, set the world at nought;
Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.
#2Gents_2025
I,1,63-69
Menelaus captures Proteus
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
PROTEUS
I leave myself, my friends, and all, for love:
Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphos'd me;
Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,
War with good counsel, set the world at nought;
Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.
#2Gents_2025
I,1,63-69
Menelaus captures Proteus
I leave myself, my friends, and all, for love:
Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphos'd me;
Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,
War with good counsel, set the world at nought;
Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.
#2Gents_2025
I,1,63-69
Menelaus captures Proteus
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mystery upon mystery
November 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
mystery upon mystery
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Behind An Apartment Building.
November 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Behind An Apartment Building.
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