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Michelle Butler Hallett

@mbutlerhallett.bsky.social

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I write fiction about violence, evil, love, and grace. Disabled. Autistic. Comically awkward history nerd and mother hen. #PWHL fan -- allez, Victoire! She/her. Canadian. Let's be excellent to one another.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Jul 9

But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Jul 7

so the wretched infidel gazes himself blind at the monumental white shroud that wraps all the prospect around him

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Jul 8

millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Jul 8

To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there’s naught beyond.

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Larrish 💙 @larrish.bsky.social · Jul 8

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I SURVIVED READING BANNED BOOKS
ALL I GOT WAS SMARTER AND MORE EMPATHETIC

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Jul 8

I’ll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition’s flames before I give him up.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Jul 1

And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved the black sea, as if its vast tides were a conscience; and the great mundane soul were in anguish and remorse for the long sin and suffering it had bred.

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Michelle Butler Hallett @mbutlerhallett.bsky.social · Jul 1

Happy Canada Day!

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Jun 11

Madman! look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.

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Michelle Butler Hallett @mbutlerhallett.bsky.social · Jun 9

Beautiful things happen when you loan out your typewriter.

Michelle Butler Hallett @mbutlerhallett.bsky.social · Jun 7

I've never been one for ballcaps.

Until now. Go, @victoire-lphf.bsky.social !

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Jun 6

I believe that much of a man’s character will be found betokened in his backbone.

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · Jun 6

The receptacles into which Mrs Spry puts her flowers are equally varied: a wooden bowl, a silver sauce-boat, a tin-lined bible-box, and something which she calls a pancheon. #gardening www.countrylife.co.uk/luxury/art-a...

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Jun 6

Am I the same man that helped kill this whale?

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · Jun 6

If you need a breather from all this bullshit, here's a photo of Earth.

From Saturn.

We're that slightly brighter star at centre right.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Jun 6

Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · Jun 2

"Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide."

-John Muir

a bare tree in the foreground. The river is behind it with mountains in the background.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · May 27

a mighty pleasant zephyr

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · May 27

ever since that almost fatal encounter, Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale

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Michelle Butler Hallett @mbutlerhallett.bsky.social · May 26

Historical fiction workshop at the Centre for Newfoundland Studies

Can't wait!

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WHERE WINDS BLOW ON SHORE: a Writing workshop with Michelle Butler Hallet

Historical Texture, Historical Fiction, and the Centre for Newfoundland Studies

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · May 26

of real knowledge there be little, yet of books there are a plenty

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · May 24

“My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.”
― William Trevor (born on this day 1928)

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · May 25

pondering all this, the palsied universe lies before us a leper

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · May 25

most seamen are beginning to learn, tar in general by no means adds to the rope’s durability or strength

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · May 25

the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open

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