‘It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.’ ~ Tolkien, The Hobbit.

@racheldeering.bsky.social here for #BookWormSat today and #ReadABookDay tomorrow.
🖼️ Tolkien, 1937.

'I accepted because mysterious ladies offering bourbon under the stars is very much my aesthetic.'
-Erin Morganstern, The Starless Sea
🎨Franz von Stuck
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"I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my head obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc"

Elizabeth Smart, By grand central station I sat down and wept

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Fairy places, fairy things,
Fairy woods where the wild bee wings

A Child's Garden of Verses
Robert Louis Stevenson

Jessie Willcox Smith #BookWormSat

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The Greenwood Faun - A book within a book within a novel
'To leave anything of worth to posterity, the artist has to shine a light in death's unblinking eye.' Now available via Snuggly Books.

#BookWormSat Sorry!! For swamping the hashtag. But you said favourite book and I'm very bad at resisting certain temptations

"The truth will set you free. But not before it is finished with you."

📕 D. F. Wallace, Infinite Jest
🖼️ R. Magritte, The False Mirror

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"Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else."

📕 D. F. Wallace, Infinite Jest
🖼️ V. Kolosov, Metaphysics of the...

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"Can you tell me who is fighting who in Ishmaelia?"
"I think it's the Patriots and the Traitors."
"Yes, but which is which?"
"Oh, I don't know that. That's Policy, you see. It's nothing to do with me". ~ ‘Scoop: A Novel About Journalists’ (1938), Evelyn Waugh.
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"...the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer."

📕 D. F. Wallace, Infinite Jest
🖼️ Max Beckmann, Falling Man

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'Now I realised that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me.'

Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose #BookWormSat #ReadaBookDay

"I am not what you see and hear."

📕 D. F. Wallace, Infinite Jest
🖼️ R. Magritte, La reproduction interdite

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"While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free..."
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
Walter Pater
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The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much uneasiness and pain, no matter what tears were shed, what sorrows borne, the peace of Manderley could not be broken or the loveliness destroyed

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"...almost nothing important that ever happens to you ever happens because you engineer it... Destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because
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📕 D. F. Wallace, Infinite Jest
🖼️ F. Nussbaum, Orgelmann

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