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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 3h

...awake; and besides he felt a strong desire to have a few quiet puffs from his Tomahawk.

She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 3h

...my own pleasant and self-created darkness into the imposed and coarse outer gloom of the unilluminated twelve-o'clock-at-night, I experienced a disagreeable revulsion. Nor did I at all object to the hint from Queequeg that perhaps it were best to strike a light, seeing that we were so wide...

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 3h

...the more to concentrate the snugness of being in bed. Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part. Upon opening my eyes then, and coming out of...

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 3h

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time, when all at once I thought I would open my eyes; for when between sheets, whether by day or by night, and whether asleep or awake, I have a way of always keeping my eyes shut, in order...

#rose #RoseWednesday 🌱

Closeup of a deep red rose in a vase, with other flowers behind.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 1d

Today's #mobydick quote:
For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.

#leaf #print #FallVibes #NatureArt

Leaf print in the dirt, with a leaf bedside it.

Fall leaves on the ground, with multiple leaf prints in the dirt.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 2d

...the tip of your nose or the crown of your head be slightly chilled, why then, indeed, in the general consciousness you feel most delightfully and unmistakably warm. For this reason a sleeping apartment should never be furnished with a fire, which is one of the luxurious discomforts of the rich.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 2d

...for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more. But if, like Queequeg and me in the bed,...

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 2d

Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
We felt very nice and snug, the more so since it was so chilly out of doors; indeed out of bedclothes too, seeing that there was no fire in the room. The more so, I say, because to truly enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold,...

#rose 🌱 #flower #bloom

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TinyTalesDaily @tinytalesdaily.bsky.social · 2d

"Temperature's dropping inside you," the doctor says, thermometer showing minus twelve. "Internal winter." My breath fogs the examination room. "Emotional hypothermia. Common after divorce."

"Treatment?"

"Love. Or thermal underwear."

Outside, people avoid my radius of cold. Flowers wilt. A stranger bumps me, shivers, then surprisingly—stays. "You're freezing," he says.

"I know."

He doesn't move away. Frost patterns bloom on concrete around us.

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#Divorce #Heartbreak #Loneliness #EmotionalHealing #Love #Winter #Cold #Connection

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 5d

...little and little we found ourselves sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us, leaning against the head-board with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two noses bending over them, as if our knee-pans were warming pans.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 5d

...,at last, by reason of our confabulations, what little nappishness remained in us altogether departed, and we felt like getting up again, though day-break was yet some way down the future.

Yes, we became very wakeful; so much so that our recumbent position began to grow wearisome, and by...

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 5d

Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
CHAPTER 11
NIGHTGOWN

We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals, and Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs over mine, and then drawing them back; so entirely sociable and free and easy were we; when...
#rose 🌱 #red

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 6d

...nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg —a cozy, loving pair.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 6d

Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottoms of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till...

#cozy #frenchie #love

French bulldog with black and white fur snuggled into a tiger-striped blanket.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 7d

...without some little chat.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 7d

...kindled the shavings; helped prop up the innocent little idol; offered him burnt biscuits with Queequeg; salaamed before him twice or thrice; kissed his nose; and that done, we undressed and went to bed, at peace with our own consciences and all the world. But we did not go to sleep...

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 7d

Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
Now, Queequeg is my fellow man. And what do I wish that this Queequeg would do to me? Why, unite with me in my particular Presbyterian form of worship. Consequently, I must then unite with him in his; ergo, I must turn idolator. So I...

#butterfly #eye #bugsky #closeup

Closeup of a butterfly eye and face. The butterfly and its eye are brown with black stripes.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 7d

I read something along the lines of, "your first thought is what you were taught; your second thought is who you really are."

Perfectly illustrated here by our friend Ish.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 8d

...*that* is the will of God.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 8d

... magnanimous God of heaven and earth—pagans and all included—can possibly be jealous of an insignificant bit of black wood? Impossible! But what is worship?—to do the will of God—*that* is worship. And what is the will of God?—to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man do to me—...

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 8d

Today's #mobydick quote 🧵:
I was a good Christian; born and bred in the bosom of the infallible Presbyterian Church. How then could I unite with this wild idolator in worshipping his piece of wood? But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the...

#butterfly #bugsky #closeup

Closeup of the face and eye of a white butterfly.

White butterfly with orange wingtips, sitting on white and green foliage.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 9d

...he seemed anxious for me to join him; but well knowing what was to follow, I deliberated a moment whether, in case he invited me, I would comply or otherwise.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 9d

...one of them towards me, and said it was mine. I was going to remonstrate; but he silenced me by pouring them into my trowsers' [sic] pockets. I let them stay. He then went about his evening prayers, took out his idol, and removed the paper fireboard. By certain signs and symptoms, I thought...

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 9d

...and smoke, we went to our room together. He made me a present of his embalmed head; took out his enormous tobacco wallet, and groping under the tobacco, drew out some thirty dollars in silver; then spreading them on the table, and mechanically dividing them into two equal portions, pushed...

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 9d

...that we were bosom friends; he would gladly die for me, if need should be. In a countryman, this sudden flame of friendship would have seemed far too premature, a thing to be much distrusted; but in this simple savage those old rules would not apply.

After supper, and another social chat...

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