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Sam Walks a Lot
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Filmaker in training & hopeless storyteller 📽
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"Not till we are lost - in other words, not till we have lost the world - do we begin to find ourselves."

#ClassicLitMonday
Quiet rural landscape in winter, with leafless trees emerging from morning mist across a frosted field.
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“How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?”

📖 “Doctor Zhivago” ~ Boris Pasternak, 1957

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🎥 “Doctor Zhivago”, 1965
2:55pm TODAY ON @BBCTwo
December 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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I am fifty
And you are five. It would do
No good to say this and it
May do no good to write it.
Believe in Orion. Believe
In the night, the moon, the crowded
Earth. Believe in Christmas and
Birthdays and Easter rabbits.

Excerpt from A SWORD IN A CLOUD OF LIGHT - Kenneth Rexroth
#ClassicLitMonday
A SWORD IN A CLOUD OF LIGHT Your hand in mine, we walk out To watch the Christmas Eve crowds On Fillmore Street, the Negro District. The night is thick with Frost. The people hurry, wreathed In their smoky breaths. Before The shop windows the children Jump up and down with spangled Eyes. Santa Clauses ring bells, Cars stall and honk. Streetcars clang. Loud speakers on the lampposts Sing carols, on juke boxes In the bars Louis Armstrong Plays “White Christmas.” In the joints The girls strip and grind and bump To “Jingle Bells.” Overhead The neon signs scribble and Erase and scribble again Messages of avarice, Joy, fear, hygiene, and the proud Names of the middle classes. The moon beams like a pudding. We stop at the main corner And look up, diagonally Across, at the rising moon, And the solemn, orderly Vast winter constellations. You say, “There’s Orion!” The most beautiful object Either of us will ever Know in the world or in life Stands in the moonlit empty Heavens, over the swarming Men, women, and children, black And white, joyous and greedy, Evil and good, buyer and Seller, master and victim, Like some immense theorem, Which, if once solved would forever Solve the mystery and pain Under the bells and spangles. There he is, the man of the Night before Christmas, spread out On the sky like a true god In whom it would only be Necessary to believe A little. I am fifty And you are five. It would do No good to say this and it May do no good to write it. Believe in Orion. Believe In the night, the moon, the crowded Earth. Believe in Christmas and Birthdays and Easter rabbits. Believe in all those fugitive Compounds of nature, all doomed To waste away and go out. Always be true to these things. They are all there is. Never Give up this savage religion For the blood-drenched civilized Abstractions of the rascals Who live by killing you and me. Kenneth Rexroth - 1955 Picture of the constellation Orion over the Golden Gate Bridge
December 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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"Not till we are lost - in other words, not till we have lost the world - do we begin to find ourselves."

#ClassicLitMonday
Quiet rural landscape in winter, with leafless trees emerging from morning mist across a frosted field.
December 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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My secret location last week was Charles Dickens' house with @samwalksalot.bsky.social. I sat at his desk, laid on his deathbed and explored his cellar. See first comment for Sam's excellent video!
December 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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My secret location last week was Charles Dickens' house with @samwalksalot.bsky.social. I sat at his desk, laid on his deathbed and explored his cellar. See first comment for Sam's excellent video!
December 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Then, farewell, heat, and welcome, frost!

MOV 2:7

#ShakespeareSunday
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November 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.
They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life."

H. Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches
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November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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We climbed, he first and I behind, until though a small round opening ahead of us, I saw the lovely things the heavens hold, and we came out to see once more the stars.

~Dante Alighieri
Divine Comedy (1308-1320)
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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November 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Monday
#AllMetalMonday
#BenchmarkMonday
#BlueMonday
#BrutalMonday / #MondaysAreBrutal
#ClassicLitMonday
#JadeMonday
#MagentaMonday
#MallardMonday
#MammalMonday
#ManholeCoverMonday
#ManuscriptMonday
#MapMonday
#MarbleMonday
#MaritimeMonday
#MarketMonday
#MedievalMonday
#MementoMoriMonday
October 20, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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7:45pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra

From 2016, Ep 6 of 10 of Drama 📻 “JANE EYRE” directed by Tracey Neale

Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel📖 dramatised by Rachel Joyce

🌟 Amanda Hale, Tom Burke, Susan Jameson, Tracy Wile, Ewan Bailey

📻👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

#BookchatWeekly #ClassicLitMonday
October 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

#ClassicLitMonday

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September 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way,
Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring,

Percy B Shelley

Charles Conder
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September 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”

📖 “An Outcast of the Islands” ~ Joseph Conrad, 1896

#BookchatWeekly #ClassicLitMonday

🎥 “Outcast of the Islands”, 1951
11am TODAY on @Film4
September 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”

📖 “Moby-Dick” ~ Herman Melville, 1851

#BookchatWeekly #ClassicLitMonday

🎥 “Moby Dick”, 1956
1pm TODAY on @Legend__Channel
September 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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#OwlishMonday
September 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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"Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree."

Emily Brontë, Fall, leaves, fall
#ClassicLitMonday
September 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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“O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.”

📖 “Far from the Madding Crowd” ~ Thomas Hardy, 1874

#BookchatWeekly #ClassicLitMonday

🎥 “Far from the Madding Crowd”, 1967
1pm TODAY on @Film4
September 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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7:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra

From 1995, Ep 1 (of 10) 📻 “The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux” “The Ghost” abridged by #AndrewSimpson & read by #JackKlaff

#GastonLeroux's novel🎥, first published in 1909.

📻@BBCSounds 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#BookchatWeekly #ClassicLitMonday
September 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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kerriasea I am extremely happy walking on the downs...l like to have space to spread my mind out in.

~ Virginia Woolf
art by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
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September 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world.

William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

#ClassicLitMonday

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September 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Oh Monday! The day when even my coffee needs coffee.🥱🫩😴☕️☕️☕️

#GoodMorningBluesky #Booksky #Translators #MondayMotivation #MondayMood #CoffeeTime
Lizard-looking character with tongue out, an orange robe, and holding a green cup of coffee. Caption: I THINK THIS COFFEE IS BROKEN! I'M STILL TIRED!
September 8, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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2pm TODAY on @SkyArts

The Brontës by Anita Rani: Sisters of Disruption

Anita Rani explores the Brontë sisters & their enduring influence. How and why these sisters became ground-breaking 'literary disruptors' whose work still feels relevant & influential today

#BookchatWeekly #ClassicLitMonday
September 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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As his antagonist came roaring toward him, Lord Greystoke tore his long knife from its sheath, and with an answering challenge as horrid and bloodcurdling as that of the beast he faced, rushed swiftly to meet the attack

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

#AuthorsBornThisDay
#ClassicLitMonday
The fight to the death between Tarzan and Kerchak Digital Art by Daryl Mandryk
September 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Monday
#AllMetalMonday
#BenchmarkMonday
#BlueMonday
#BrutalMonday / #MondaysAreBrutal
#ClassicLitMonday
#JadeMonday
#MagentaMonday
#MallardMonday
#MammalMonday
#ManholeCoverMonday
#ManuscriptMonday
#MapMonday
#MarbleMonday
#MaritimeMonday
#MarketMonday
#MedievalMonday

#MementoMoriMonday
September 8, 2025 at 5:37 AM