"Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade." - W B Yeats *** Buttermere, Lake District, England by rob_stevens_photography
David Reader 🐳📚🐦
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Constant reader, occasional writer living near San Diego
the eyes, with the steady light of an all-absorbing love . . . revealed the real character of the man—the wisdom of the thinker, the strenuous melancholy of a spirit that discerns the horizon on either side, and sees clearly to the end of winding ways, #BalzacTogether Lost Illusions
„—Au bœuf l'agriculture patiente, à l'oiseau la vie insouciante, se disait l'imprimeur. Je serai le bœuf, Lucien sera l'aigle.“ #BalzacTogether ILLUSIONS PERDUES
Taken from the canoe on an evening in August a number of years ago: a great blue heron crossing the lake to settle in for the night. #dusk #kootenaylakebc #canada
#BalzacTogether Their children—like all children born of love—inherited the mother’s beauty and nothing else, a gift that is often fatal when accompanied by poverty.
„La goutte est la maladie des riches; et les riches payent cher la santé quand ils en sont privés.“ #BalzacTogether ILLUSIONS PERDUES Les deux poètes
The life of hope and hard work and despair, in all of which Mme. Chardon had shared with such keen sympathy, had left deep traces in her beautiful face, just as the slow decline of a scanty income had changed her ways and habits [to confront] evil days bravely enough #BalzacTogether Lost Illusions
Sculptor Stefanie Rocknak is known for the Edgar Allan Poe statue in Boston, among others. Her design for New Bedford is titled “Melville and Jonah’s Journey.” The name refers to the sermon on Jonah and the Whale in the Whaleman’s Chapel scene in “Moby-Dick.” #MelvilleMonday
Photos: Herman Melville statue being installed in New Bedford
Installers have been working this week to place a new statue of famed “Moby-Dick” author Herman Melville outside the Seamen’s Bethel in downtown New Bedford.
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Credit the Arab wizard lean, And still at favoring hour are seen (But not by Franks, whom doubts debar) Through waves the cities overthrown. Clarel. Part 2, Canto 37: Of Traditions Happy #MelvilleMonday , dear friends!
The legends claim, that into sea The old magician flung his book When life and lore he both forsook: The evil spell yet lurks, may be.-- But yon strange orb--can be the moon? These vapors: and the waters swoon. Clarel. Part 2, Canto 37: Of Traditions Happy #MelvilleMonday , dear friends!
“The Pequod now went rolling through the bright Quito Spring, which, at sea, almost perpetually weighs on the threshold of the eternal August of the Tropic” — chapter 29, Moby Dick #melvillemonday #naturesky
"Illustrierte Klassiker" basiert auf Werken der Weltliteratur wie Ivanhoe, Die Schatzinsel oder eben auch Moby Dick. Die Comicreihe mit dem Untertitel "Die spannendsten Geschichten der Weltliteratur" erschien zw. 1952-1972 bei verschiedenen deu. Verlagen. #Melvillemonday
#MelvilleMonday "[Hawthorne] is immeasurably deeper than the plummet of the mere critic. For it is not the brain that can test such a man; it is only the heart. You cannot come to know greatness by inspecting it; there is no glimpse to be caught of it, except by intuition." - Melville, c. 1850
Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳 ! „Were the secret history of all sea-fights written, the laurels of sea-heroes would turn to ashes on their brows.“ White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War. CH. 74 Giuseppe Penone Respirare l'ombra, 2005, a wall-filling laurel field Kunsthaus Zürich
David came home, and the old man received him with all the cordiality which cunning folk can assume with an eye to business. #BalzacTogether Lost Illusions
„En ces sortes de marchés, le débat annonce un négociant capable qui défend ses intérêts. ‚Qui tope à tout’, disait le vieux Séchard, ‚ne paye rien‘.“ #BalzacTogether ILLUSIONS PERDUES
Another shot taken while riding aboard the White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad on the way to Skagway #alaska
See, Buddy? Dat de north star. Goes very bright, and den she fades again, every four days. Dat is one thing you can count on. Everything else in dis goddom world changin so fast dat a mon cannot keep up no more, but de north star is always dere, boy . . . Peter Matthiessen Far Tortuga
Yes, the world’s a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow. - Herman Melville, Moby Dick or, the Whale born on this day, 1819 #BookSky #HermanMelville
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins. From the day when Sechard first caught a glimpse of the possibility of making a fortune, a growing covetousness developed and sharpened in him a certain practical faculty for business—greedy, suspicious, and keen-eyed. #balzactogether Lost Illusions