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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 1h

Cranmer

Truth shall nurse her,
Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her.
She shall be loved and feared. Her own shall bless her;
Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn,
And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her.
[Elizabeth]
#HenryVIII_2025
Act V s5 (28-32)

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 7h

Cranmer

Saba was never
More covetous of wisdom and fair virtue
Than this pure soul shall be.

William Shakespeare
#HenryVIII_2025
V,4,23-25

Reverend Matthew Peters (1742-1814)
King Henry VIII. Act V, Scene IV.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 8h

#AmericanReadalong

„A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-color, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach.“

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art transcript @art-transcript.bsky.social · 8h

light breezes from the lake
leaves dancing in the air

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Ruby Slippers @rubyslippers.bsky.social · 1d

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christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 1d

#HenryVIII_2025 Day 28, 10/14- Act V s3
(penultimate day!)

Location. By a gate of the royal court, London.

PORTER. You'll leave your noise anon, ye rascals: do you take the court for Paris Garden?

* Paris Garden: bear-baiting arena on London's Bankside, near the Globe theatre

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 1d

PORTER
How got they in, and be hang'd?

MAN
Alas I know not, how gets the tide in?

William Shakespeare
#HenryVIII_2025
V,3,16-17

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Islander @dhiislander.bsky.camera · 5d

#263

#Maldives #Thulusdhoo #visitMaldives #evening #reef #boat #dhoani #breakwater #sun #sky #clouds #island #photography #guesthouse #travel #blackandwhite #bnw #monochrome #PhotographersOfBlueSky #LumixS9 #LUMIX

Thulusdhoo, Maldives. Evening at the Burugaa Beach. The foreground features a small, traditional boat called a Dhoani, anchored in the lagoon. Beyond the Dhoani lies an artificial breakwater, and further beyond, waves crash onto the island reef. The sky above is cloudy. The whole scene is in black and white.

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Takeshi Sudo @artssoy.bsky.social · 1d

“and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records.”

—— Moby Dick, CHAPTER 13

#MelvilleMonday 🐳

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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 1d

#MelvilleMonday

"It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (Ch. 12)

The Mystical Boat by Odilon Redon (1840-1916)

For context: "Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."
- Herman Melville. Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Ch. 12).

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 2d

Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends!

Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳

Everyone needs a sperm whale mailbox ! 🐳🐳

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 2d

#AmericanReadalong

Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i. e. what is called savagery. Your true whale-hunter is as much a savage as an Iroquois. I myself am a savage . . .
#MobyDick C57
#MelvilleMonday

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Moo Dog Press @moodogpress.com · 2d

“Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs of the noble South Sea war-wood, are frequently met with in the forecastles of American whalers. Some of them are done with much accuracy.”

#MelvilleMonday

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 2d

Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳

Baleinier Français en Pêche
Kreidelithographie von Thierry Frères, Paris, nach Jean-Baptiste-Henri Durand-Brager
1844 oder 1845. Walfangsammlung Barthelmess

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 2d

#AmericanReadalong

Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 57.

„And beneath the effulgent Antarctic skies I have boarded the Argo-Navis, and joined the chase against the starry Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydrus and the Flying Fish.“

Walfisch (Stellarium)

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Nick's Chapter-a-Day Read-along @chapteraday.bsky.social · 2d

#AmericanReadalong

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Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social · 2d

Pigments and shadows.

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 2d

My second time through. An excellent first novel.

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Kelly Rebar @kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social · 3d

This is up the road, late on an October day. #fall #leaves #abstract

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 3d

Cranmer

My good lords, hitherto, in all the progress
Both of my life and office, I have laboured,
And with no little study, that my teaching
And the strong course of my authority
Might go one way, and safely; and the end
Was ever to do well:
#HenryVIII_2025
Act V s3 (32-37)

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Nemi 📚🎶 @nemimeli.bsky.social · 3d

KING
You play the spaniel,
And think with wagging of your tongue to win me;
But whatsoe'er thou tak'st me for, I'm sure
Thou hast a cruel nature and a bloody.

#HenryVIII_2025
V,2,160-163

James Ward
1769-1859
Portrait of Dash, a Favourite Spaniel, the Property of Lady Frances Vane-Tempest
1819
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Christian Bauman @christianbauman.bsky.social · 3d

My #sundaysentence this week is Ani DiFranco contemplating the immediate outcome of writing: “I wake up to the fact that I have transformed my pain into something more beautiful and useful than it was in its original state.”

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Searsapple @sparrersway.bsky.social · 3d

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