Sam Walks a Lot
@samwalksalot.bsky.social
Walker 🥾🥾 Filmaker in training & hopeless storyteller 📽 Photos 📸 are my own unless stated otherwise. The brawn behind #ClassicLitMonday 🤓 I'm doing "a thing" on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@SamWalksALot
Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee! ~T.S. Eliot 🎨Tuesday Ridell
“Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.” Jack London, White Fang #ClassicLitMonday #AuthorsBornThisDay
"We love to go for a walk in the snow" by stevesandersonart On Instagram
"The Open Road. The great home of the Soul is the open road." D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature #ClassicLitMonday
I take pride withal in my humiliation, as I am to this privilege condemned; I am, I believe, alone of all our race, the only man in human memory to have been shipwrecked and cast up upon a deserted ship. Umberto Eco - The Island of the Day Before #ClassicLitMonday #AuthorsBornThisDay
There's frost on the ground & calm in the air.. The old year is settling & the new one is stirring... Happy New Year's Eve, everyone ❄️🎉
“How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?” 📖 “Doctor Zhivago” ~ Boris Pasternak, 1957 #BookchatWeekly #ClassicLitMonday 🎥 “Doctor Zhivago”, 1965 2:55pm TODAY ON @BBCTwo
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
"Not till we are lost - in other words, not till we have lost the world - do we begin to find ourselves." #ClassicLitMonday
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!
"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 #ClassicLitMonday
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)
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 #ClassicLitMonday
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
Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse #ClassicLitMonday @samwalksalot.bsky.social
I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way, Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring, Percy B Shelley Charles Conder #ClassicLitMonday #BookChatWeekly
“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
“Ignorance is the parent of fear.” 📖 “Moby-Dick” ~ Herman Melville, 1851 #BookchatWeekly #ClassicLitMonday 🎥 “Moby Dick”, 1956 1pm TODAY on @Legend__Channel
"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
“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
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
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 #bookchatweekly #ClassicLitMonday
