Tomás Murray
@tomasjmurray.bsky.social
Lean left • Tom is fine • Far from the west of Ireland now • Fond of cats, jazz, old films, paintings, poetry, stout, & Sylvia • Sylvia most of all
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“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.”
📸 Mark Gerson (June, 1969)
📸 Mark Gerson (June, 1969)
November 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.”
📸 Mark Gerson (June, 1969)
📸 Mark Gerson (June, 1969)
. . . on ‘A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing’ from ‘The Peaceful Side’: youtu.be/Gtw4zICtSF4?...
November 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
. . . on ‘A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing’ from ‘The Peaceful Side’: youtu.be/Gtw4zICtSF4?...
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
📸 Herman Leonard (Paris, 1960)
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
📸 Herman Leonard (Paris, 1960)
(This I would like to have seen.)
November 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
(This I would like to have seen.)
(My favourite Attenborough)
November 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
(My favourite Attenborough)
“There are moments, most unexpectedly, when something inside me tries to assure me that I don’t really mind so much, not so very much after all. Love is not the whole of a man’s life. I was happy before I ever met H. I’ve plenty of what are called ‘resources’. . . .” 1/2
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“There are moments, most unexpectedly, when something inside me tries to assure me that I don’t really mind so much, not so very much after all. Love is not the whole of a man’s life. I was happy before I ever met H. I’ve plenty of what are called ‘resources’. . . .” 1/2
C. S. Lewis, Writer, Academic, #BornOnThisDay in 1898, in Belfast
November 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
C. S. Lewis, Writer, Academic, #BornOnThisDay in 1898, in Belfast
. . . his ‘Chelsea Bridge’ played by Mulligan & Webster: youtu.be/AConXKO_tcM?...
November 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
. . . his ‘Chelsea Bridge’ played by Mulligan & Webster: youtu.be/AConXKO_tcM?...
Billy Strayhorn, Jazz Composer, Pianist, Arranger, #BornOnThisDay in 1915, in Dayton, Ohio
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Billy Strayhorn, Jazz Composer, Pianist, Arranger, #BornOnThisDay in 1915, in Dayton, Ohio
40. ‘Scrooge’ (Hurst, 1951)
“This boy is Ignorance, this girl is Want. Beware of both, but most of all, beware this boy!”
“But have they no refuge, no resource?”
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
“This boy is Ignorance, this girl is Want. Beware of both, but most of all, beware this boy!”
“But have they no refuge, no resource?”
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
40. ‘Scrooge’ (Hurst, 1951)
“This boy is Ignorance, this girl is Want. Beware of both, but most of all, beware this boy!”
“But have they no refuge, no resource?”
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
“This boy is Ignorance, this girl is Want. Beware of both, but most of all, beware this boy!”
“But have they no refuge, no resource?”
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
. . . his ‘Lotus Blossom’ from Ellington’s ‘…And His Mother Called Him Bill’:
youtu.be/elo63IXDGjM?...
youtu.be/elo63IXDGjM?...
November 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
. . . his ‘Lotus Blossom’ from Ellington’s ‘…And His Mother Called Him Bill’:
youtu.be/elo63IXDGjM?...
youtu.be/elo63IXDGjM?...
It’s Billy’s birthday tomorrow.
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It’s Billy’s birthday tomorrow.
This is somewhat of a pointless post. I wandered out today (yes, I know it’s Black Friday but I had to get out). I steered clear of the malls. Spent most of the day browsing in book & wine stores tbh. But I thought @patburke.bsky.social—or, more precisely, the smaller Burkes—might like these.
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This is somewhat of a pointless post. I wandered out today (yes, I know it’s Black Friday but I had to get out). I steered clear of the malls. Spent most of the day browsing in book & wine stores tbh. But I thought @patburke.bsky.social—or, more precisely, the smaller Burkes—might like these.
Tripped across this while looking for something else.
📸 Sasha (17 June, 1934)
📸 Sasha (17 June, 1934)
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Tripped across this while looking for something else.
📸 Sasha (17 June, 1934)
📸 Sasha (17 June, 1934)
Photographed at her Paris home on the Left Bank’s Rue Monsieur (12 December, 1964:
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Photographed at her Paris home on the Left Bank’s Rue Monsieur (12 December, 1964:
