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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1h

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

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1h

#RachelCuskTogether
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„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 · 1h

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 · 2h

#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 · 20h

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 · 22h

#AmericanReadalong

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Miss Mainwaring @miss-mainwaring.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 19h

Shakespeare provides so many clues for background stories.

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 19h

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
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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 · 1d

I second that! 🙏😊📚

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

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 · 1d

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

#AmericanReadalong

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

„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 · 2d

#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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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 2d

Tormentoso: the name given to the Cape of Good Hope by the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias (1450-1500)

📷 Fleet of Pedro Alvarez Cabral, bottom right the ship of Bartolomeu Dias is symbolized as sunk
(ca. 1568)

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 2d

#AmericanReadalong

“Cape of Good Hope, do they call ye? Rather Cape Tormentoto, as called of yore; for long allured by the perfidious silences that before had attended us, we found ourselves launched into this tormented sea“ …

Herman Melville
Moby-Dick 51

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Annabel Lee @annabel-lee.bsky.social · 2d

#melvillemonday

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Ustinoff auf Eis @ustinoff.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

In Mardi, Melville had shifted his interest from the actual to the abstruse and symbolical, and he never recovered from the dive into metaphysics which proved fatal to him as a novelist. It was while on this perilous border that he produced the best of his […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

Bw drawing. A whale makes a fountain, a rowing boat with sailors

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Ustinoffs Hausgeist 🎃 @ustinoff.bsky.social · 2d

The moot point is, whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc; whether he must not be exterminated from the waters, and the last whale smoke his last pipe, and then himself evaporate in the final puff.

Moby Dick. CV.

Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!

SW Zeichnung
Ein gefangener Wal an der Seite eines Schiffes befestigt.

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