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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 23h

"The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.”

― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, c. 1798

From my wife's walk:

From the poem "Christabel" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Said to explore good and evil, innocence and experience, and the corrupting power of the supernatural.

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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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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 23h

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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Wolfgang Scherreiks @wolfgangscherreiks.bsky.social · 1d

»Oh, sacrament of summer days, Oh, last communion in the haze, Permit a child to join.«
Emily Dickinson

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

Found them by switching to “Latest” then “Retry”

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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 · 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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Searsapple @sparrersway.bsky.social · 1d

#lifeinthecracks #plantasrebeldes

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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 1d

no path to follow
the still breeze moves the branches
I too sway with it

#Photography Bernard Doucette
@bdoucette.bsky.social

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

#melvillemonday

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

Nantucket Island, Massachusetts

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Moo Dog Press @moodogpress.com · 10d

The will, that never can relent—

The aim, survivor of the bafflement,

Make this memorial due.

Herman Melville

#MelvilleMonday

Carved anchor, rope, leaves— stone obelisk detail. Thinking.

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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 […]

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

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Herman Melville @melvillequotes.bsky.social · Apr 5

"All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life."
—Moby-Dick

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Moo Dog Press @moodogpress.com · 2d

“Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity. Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale…”

#MelvilleMonday

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ROSSINI, Vinicius @vsrossini.bsky.social · 3d

18° Livro: Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Acho que Melville deve ser uma das pessoas mais inteligentes e cultas do mundo. É um absurdo a quantidade de referências desse livro. Muito denso mas vale muito a pena a leitura. Uma das melhores da vida.

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 3d

Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳

„Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon waned away; for in a whaler wonders soon wane.“

Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 50 AHAB'S BOAT AND CREW • FEDALLAH

#AmericanReadalong

Fedallah
Claus Hoie, 1911-2007
NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

Framed and matted watercolor with Fedallah wearing white pans and turban looking out from mast. Blue-white color combination in foreground depicting ocean. Green-grey color alternation in background to show horizon.

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Nick's Chapter-a-Day Read-along @chapteraday.bsky.social · 3d

#AmericanReadalong #MelvilleMonday

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Moo Dog Press @moodogpress.com · 3d

“Melville dramatized his deeper concerns: the equivocal defeats and triumphs of the human spirit and its fusion of creative and murderous urges.”

#MelvilleMonday

Herman Melville - American Author, Moby-Dick, Novelist | Britannica

Herman Melville - American Author, Moby-Dick, Novelist: Melville rejoined a family whose prospects had much improved. Gansevoort, who after James K. Polk’s victory in the 1844 presidential elections h...

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

Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends!

Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳

“One of the wild suggestions . . . linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous;”
#MobyDick C41

Plumeria with a hanging blue whale ornament

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 3d

Vain pomp & glory of this world, I hate ye:
I feel my heart new opened. O, how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours?

To endure more miseries and greater far
Than my weak-hearted enemies dare offer.

Act III s2 #HenryVIII_2025 Wolsey to his protege, Cromwell.

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 3d

WOLSEY

Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal
I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.

William Shakespeare
#HenryVIII_2025
III,2,457-459

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

Wolsey

I have ventured,
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
This many summers in a sea of glory,
But far beyond my depth.
#HenryVIII_2025
Act III s2 (358-361)

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Bob Varettoni @bvar.bsky.social · 3d

Blood moon over the East River tonight

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Agnès Rousseau @agnesrousseau.bsky.social · 3d

#ChallengePhotoADay
#fmspad
6 octobre Commence par S (la Somme)

Somme : cathédrale Notre-Dame d’Amiens, l’Annonciation.

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