#AmericanReadalong
„Oh,grassy glades! oh,ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye—though long parched by the dead drought of the earthy life—in ye, men yet may roll, like young horses in new morning clover; and for some few fleeting moments, feel the cool dew of the life immortal on them.“
„Oh,grassy glades! oh,ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye—though long parched by the dead drought of the earthy life—in ye, men yet may roll, like young horses in new morning clover; and for some few fleeting moments, feel the cool dew of the life immortal on them.“
December 9, 2025 at 7:19 AM
#AmericanReadalong
„Oh,grassy glades! oh,ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye—though long parched by the dead drought of the earthy life—in ye, men yet may roll, like young horses in new morning clover; and for some few fleeting moments, feel the cool dew of the life immortal on them.“
„Oh,grassy glades! oh,ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye—though long parched by the dead drought of the earthy life—in ye, men yet may roll, like young horses in new morning clover; and for some few fleeting moments, feel the cool dew of the life immortal on them.“
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December 9, 2025 at 7:03 AM
SILVIA
O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman
(Think not I flatter, for I swear I do not)
Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplish'd.
#TwoGents_2025
IV,3,11-15
EGLAMOUR
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman
(Think not I flatter, for I swear I do not)
Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplish'd.
#TwoGents_2025
IV,3,11-15
EGLAMOUR
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
December 9, 2025 at 6:16 AM
SILVIA
O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman
(Think not I flatter, for I swear I do not)
Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplish'd.
#TwoGents_2025
IV,3,11-15
EGLAMOUR
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman
(Think not I flatter, for I swear I do not)
Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplish'd.
#TwoGents_2025
IV,3,11-15
EGLAMOUR
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
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"You will never get on in your business or anything else, if you don't take the bright view of life. It's the ruination of a man to take the dismal one."
The Confidence Man. 40.
Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!
The Confidence Man. 40.
Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!
December 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"You will never get on in your business or anything else, if you don't take the bright view of life. It's the ruination of a man to take the dismal one."
The Confidence Man. 40.
Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!
The Confidence Man. 40.
Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!
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It happened in this case, as in others, that, though the world may for a time seem insensible to that merit which lies under a cloud, yet, sooner or later, it always renders honor where honor is due.
The Confidence Man. 40.
Happy #MelvilleMonday . dear friends!
The Confidence Man. 40.
Happy #MelvilleMonday . dear friends!
December 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
It happened in this case, as in others, that, though the world may for a time seem insensible to that merit which lies under a cloud, yet, sooner or later, it always renders honor where honor is due.
The Confidence Man. 40.
Happy #MelvilleMonday . dear friends!
The Confidence Man. 40.
Happy #MelvilleMonday . dear friends!
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“Wer von uns verbringt nicht den größten Teil seines Lebens im Schatten eines Ereignisses, das noch nicht stattgehabt hat?”
— Robert Musil, Tagebücher
— Robert Musil, Tagebücher
December 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
“Wer von uns verbringt nicht den größten Teil seines Lebens im Schatten eines Ereignisses, das noch nicht stattgehabt hat?”
— Robert Musil, Tagebücher
— Robert Musil, Tagebücher
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“All men live enveloped in whale-lines… the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life… If you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker.”
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
December 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
“All men live enveloped in whale-lines… the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life… If you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-boat, you would not at heart feel one whit more of terror, than though seated before your evening fire with a poker.”
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
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#MelvilleMonday
"As for those majestic, magisterial truck-horses of the docks, I would as soon think of striking a judge on the bench, as to lay violent hand upon their holy hides."
- Herman Melville (Redburn, Ch. 40)
"As for those majestic, magisterial truck-horses of the docks, I would as soon think of striking a judge on the bench, as to lay violent hand upon their holy hides."
- Herman Melville (Redburn, Ch. 40)
December 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
#MelvilleMonday
"As for those majestic, magisterial truck-horses of the docks, I would as soon think of striking a judge on the bench, as to lay violent hand upon their holy hides."
- Herman Melville (Redburn, Ch. 40)
"As for those majestic, magisterial truck-horses of the docks, I would as soon think of striking a judge on the bench, as to lay violent hand upon their holy hides."
- Herman Melville (Redburn, Ch. 40)
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Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends!
Happy #MelvilleMonday !
“The port would fain give succor; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that’s kind to our mortalities.”
#MobyDick C23 “The Lee Shore”
Happy #MelvilleMonday !
“The port would fain give succor; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that’s kind to our mortalities.”
#MobyDick C23 “The Lee Shore”
December 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends!
Happy #MelvilleMonday !
“The port would fain give succor; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that’s kind to our mortalities.”
#MobyDick C23 “The Lee Shore”
Happy #MelvilleMonday !
“The port would fain give succor; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that’s kind to our mortalities.”
#MobyDick C23 “The Lee Shore”
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PROTEUS
Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,
The more it grows, and fawneth on her still.
#TwoGents_2025
Act IV s2 (14-15)
Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,
The more it grows, and fawneth on her still.
#TwoGents_2025
Act IV s2 (14-15)
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
PROTEUS
Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,
The more it grows, and fawneth on her still.
#TwoGents_2025
Act IV s2 (14-15)
Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,
The more it grows, and fawneth on her still.
#TwoGents_2025
Act IV s2 (14-15)
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"Without knowing it herself, my wife was a female Democritus." #MelvilleMonday
The apple-tree table, and other sketches. With an introductory note by Henry Chapin : Melville, Herman: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive archive.org/details/appl... via @internetarchive
The apple-tree table, and other sketches. With an introductory note by Henry Chapin : Melville, Herman: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive archive.org/details/appl... via @internetarchive
December 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"Without knowing it herself, my wife was a female Democritus." #MelvilleMonday
The apple-tree table, and other sketches. With an introductory note by Henry Chapin : Melville, Herman: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive archive.org/details/appl... via @internetarchive
The apple-tree table, and other sketches. With an introductory note by Henry Chapin : Melville, Herman: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive archive.org/details/appl... via @internetarchive
HOST
„You would have them always play but one thing?“
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
IV,2,68
Arden London/New York 1969
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
„You would have them always play but one thing?“
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
IV,2,68
Arden London/New York 1969
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
December 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
HOST
„You would have them always play but one thing?“
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
IV,2,68
Arden London/New York 1969
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
„You would have them always play but one thing?“
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
IV,2,68
Arden London/New York 1969
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
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Zwischen Geburt und Untergang
#Zwischenwelten
#Zwischenwelten
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Zwischen Geburt und Untergang
#Zwischenwelten
#Zwischenwelten
Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳!
“I am past scorching; not easily can'st thou scorch a scar.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 113. The Forge.
#AmericanReadalong
Frank Stella
1987
The Forge (Das Schmiedefeuer)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
“I am past scorching; not easily can'st thou scorch a scar.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 113. The Forge.
#AmericanReadalong
Frank Stella
1987
The Forge (Das Schmiedefeuer)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳!
“I am past scorching; not easily can'st thou scorch a scar.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 113. The Forge.
#AmericanReadalong
Frank Stella
1987
The Forge (Das Schmiedefeuer)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
“I am past scorching; not easily can'st thou scorch a scar.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 113. The Forge.
#AmericanReadalong
Frank Stella
1987
The Forge (Das Schmiedefeuer)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
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December 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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SECOND OUTLAW
Indeed, because you are a banished man,
Therefore, above the rest, we parlay to you:
Are you content to be our general?
#TwoGents_2025
Act IV s1 (59-60)
Indeed, because you are a banished man,
Therefore, above the rest, we parlay to you:
Are you content to be our general?
#TwoGents_2025
Act IV s1 (59-60)
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
SECOND OUTLAW
Indeed, because you are a banished man,
Therefore, above the rest, we parlay to you:
Are you content to be our general?
#TwoGents_2025
Act IV s1 (59-60)
Indeed, because you are a banished man,
Therefore, above the rest, we parlay to you:
Are you content to be our general?
#TwoGents_2025
Act IV s1 (59-60)
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#TwoGents_2025 Week 3 begins 12/8-
One of Shakespeare's favorite techniques was the dramatically ironic counterpointing of scenes…to such complex layered effects of illusion & reality, in accordance with his core belief that we are all players in the great theatre of the world. RSC intro.
One of Shakespeare's favorite techniques was the dramatically ironic counterpointing of scenes…to such complex layered effects of illusion & reality, in accordance with his core belief that we are all players in the great theatre of the world. RSC intro.
December 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
#TwoGents_2025 Week 3 begins 12/8-
One of Shakespeare's favorite techniques was the dramatically ironic counterpointing of scenes…to such complex layered effects of illusion & reality, in accordance with his core belief that we are all players in the great theatre of the world. RSC intro.
One of Shakespeare's favorite techniques was the dramatically ironic counterpointing of scenes…to such complex layered effects of illusion & reality, in accordance with his core belief that we are all players in the great theatre of the world. RSC intro.
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“Warum müssen fast alle Dinge mir als ihre eigene Parodie erscheinen? Warum muß es mir vorkommen, als ob fast alle, nein, alle Mittel und Konvenienzen der Kunst heute nur noch zur Parodie taugten?”
— Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus
— Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus
December 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
“Warum müssen fast alle Dinge mir als ihre eigene Parodie erscheinen? Warum muß es mir vorkommen, als ob fast alle, nein, alle Mittel und Konvenienzen der Kunst heute nur noch zur Parodie taugten?”
— Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus
— Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus
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“Donc un autre encore. De qui rien. Se créant des chimères pour tempérer son néant. . . .
Imaginant imaginé imaginant le tout pour se tenir compagnie.”
(Beckett, Compagnie)
Imaginant imaginé imaginant le tout pour se tenir compagnie.”
(Beckett, Compagnie)
December 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“Donc un autre encore. De qui rien. Se créant des chimères pour tempérer son néant. . . .
Imaginant imaginé imaginant le tout pour se tenir compagnie.”
(Beckett, Compagnie)
Imaginant imaginé imaginant le tout pour se tenir compagnie.”
(Beckett, Compagnie)
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“La fin est dans le commencement et cependant on continue.”
(Beckett, Fin de partie)
(Beckett, Fin de partie)
December 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
“La fin est dans le commencement et cependant on continue.”
(Beckett, Fin de partie)
(Beckett, Fin de partie)
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Christian Wolff.
Er brachte #Licht und #Ordnung in die Welt: Die Biografie eines Aufklärers, der seine Schüler vor allem das #Denken lehrte
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#Rezensionen #Bücher #Philosophie #Aufklärung #Biografie
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#Rezensionen #Bücher #Philosophie #Aufklärung #Biografie
Er brachte Licht und Ordnung in die Welt: Die Biografie eines Aufklärers, der seine Schüler vor allem das Denken lehrte · Leipziger Zeitung
Es ist das große Pech derjenigen, die ein neues Zeitalter einläuten, dass sie von ihren Schülern einmal überboten und in den Schatten gestellt werden. Und
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December 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Christian Wolff.
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December 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
FIRST OUTLAW
We'll have him. Sirs, a word.
SPEED
Master, be one of them: it's an honourable kind of thievery.
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
IV,1,38-40
Arden London/New York 1969
Speed
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
We'll have him. Sirs, a word.
SPEED
Master, be one of them: it's an honourable kind of thievery.
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
IV,1,38-40
Arden London/New York 1969
Speed
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
December 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
FIRST OUTLAW
We'll have him. Sirs, a word.
SPEED
Master, be one of them: it's an honourable kind of thievery.
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
IV,1,38-40
Arden London/New York 1969
Speed
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
We'll have him. Sirs, a word.
SPEED
Master, be one of them: it's an honourable kind of thievery.
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
IV,1,38-40
Arden London/New York 1969
Speed
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
#AmericanReadalong
„Silent, slow, and solemn; bowing over still further his chronically broken back, he toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating of his heart.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 112. THE BLACKSMITH.
„Silent, slow, and solemn; bowing over still further his chronically broken back, he toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating of his heart.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 112. THE BLACKSMITH.
December 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
#AmericanReadalong
„Silent, slow, and solemn; bowing over still further his chronically broken back, he toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating of his heart.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 112. THE BLACKSMITH.
„Silent, slow, and solemn; bowing over still further his chronically broken back, he toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating of his heart.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 112. THE BLACKSMITH.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM