#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.“
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
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
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
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
THURIO
Therefore, as you unwind her love from him,
Lest it should ravel, and be good to none,
You must provide to bottom it on me;
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
III,2,51-53
Arden London/New York 1969
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
Therefore, as you unwind her love from him,
Lest it should ravel, and be good to none,
You must provide to bottom it on me;
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
III,2,51-53
Arden London/New York 1969
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
December 6, 2025 at 7:43 AM
THURIO
Therefore, as you unwind her love from him,
Lest it should ravel, and be good to none,
You must provide to bottom it on me;
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
III,2,51-53
Arden London/New York 1969
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
Therefore, as you unwind her love from him,
Lest it should ravel, and be good to none,
You must provide to bottom it on me;
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
III,2,51-53
Arden London/New York 1969
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
#AmericanReadalong
„…millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness.“
Moby-Dick
C111
Ill. Rockwell Kent
„…millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness.“
Moby-Dick
C111
Ill. Rockwell Kent
December 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
#AmericanReadalong
„…millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness.“
Moby-Dick
C111
Ill. Rockwell Kent
„…millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness.“
Moby-Dick
C111
Ill. Rockwell Kent
LAUNCE
O villain, that set this down among her vices! To
be slow in words is a woman's only virtue. I pray thee
out with 't, and place it for her chief virtue.
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
III,1,324-326
Arden London/New York 1969
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
O villain, that set this down among her vices! To
be slow in words is a woman's only virtue. I pray thee
out with 't, and place it for her chief virtue.
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
III,1,324-326
Arden London/New York 1969
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
December 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
LAUNCE
O villain, that set this down among her vices! To
be slow in words is a woman's only virtue. I pray thee
out with 't, and place it for her chief virtue.
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
III,1,324-326
Arden London/New York 1969
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
O villain, that set this down among her vices! To
be slow in words is a woman's only virtue. I pray thee
out with 't, and place it for her chief virtue.
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
III,1,324-326
Arden London/New York 1969
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
#AmericanReadalong
“They asked him, then, whether to live or die was a matter of his own sovereign will and pleasure. He answered, certainly.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
C110
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
“They asked him, then, whether to live or die was a matter of his own sovereign will and pleasure. He answered, certainly.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
C110
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
December 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
#AmericanReadalong
“They asked him, then, whether to live or die was a matter of his own sovereign will and pleasure. He answered, certainly.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
C110
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
“They asked him, then, whether to live or die was a matter of his own sovereign will and pleasure. He answered, certainly.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
C110
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
VALENTINE:
She is my essence, and I leave to be,
If I be not by her fair influence
Foster'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept alive.
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
III,1,183-185
Arden London/New York 1969
Valentine
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
She is my essence, and I leave to be,
If I be not by her fair influence
Foster'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept alive.
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
III,1,183-185
Arden London/New York 1969
Valentine
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
December 4, 2025 at 7:15 AM
VALENTINE:
She is my essence, and I leave to be,
If I be not by her fair influence
Foster'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept alive.
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
III,1,183-185
Arden London/New York 1969
Valentine
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
She is my essence, and I leave to be,
If I be not by her fair influence
Foster'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept alive.
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
III,1,183-185
Arden London/New York 1969
Valentine
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
#AmericanReadalong
„With his snow-white new ivory leg braced against the screwed leg of his table, and with a long pruning-hook of a jack-knife in his hand, the wondrous old man, with his back to the gangway door, was wrinkling his brow, and tracing his old courses again.“
Moby-Dick
„With his snow-white new ivory leg braced against the screwed leg of his table, and with a long pruning-hook of a jack-knife in his hand, the wondrous old man, with his back to the gangway door, was wrinkling his brow, and tracing his old courses again.“
Moby-Dick
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
#AmericanReadalong
„With his snow-white new ivory leg braced against the screwed leg of his table, and with a long pruning-hook of a jack-knife in his hand, the wondrous old man, with his back to the gangway door, was wrinkling his brow, and tracing his old courses again.“
Moby-Dick
„With his snow-white new ivory leg braced against the screwed leg of his table, and with a long pruning-hook of a jack-knife in his hand, the wondrous old man, with his back to the gangway door, was wrinkling his brow, and tracing his old courses again.“
Moby-Dick
DUKE
‘Tis so; and here's the ladder for the purpose.
Why, Phaëton, for thou art Merops' son
Wilt thou aspire to guide the heavenly car?
And with thy daring folly burn the world?
Wilt thou reach stars, because they shine on thee?
#TwoGents_2025
III,1,153 ff
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
‘Tis so; and here's the ladder for the purpose.
Why, Phaëton, for thou art Merops' son
Wilt thou aspire to guide the heavenly car?
And with thy daring folly burn the world?
Wilt thou reach stars, because they shine on thee?
#TwoGents_2025
III,1,153 ff
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
December 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
DUKE
‘Tis so; and here's the ladder for the purpose.
Why, Phaëton, for thou art Merops' son
Wilt thou aspire to guide the heavenly car?
And with thy daring folly burn the world?
Wilt thou reach stars, because they shine on thee?
#TwoGents_2025
III,1,153 ff
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
‘Tis so; and here's the ladder for the purpose.
Why, Phaëton, for thou art Merops' son
Wilt thou aspire to guide the heavenly car?
And with thy daring folly burn the world?
Wilt thou reach stars, because they shine on thee?
#TwoGents_2025
III,1,153 ff
Costume by Dottie Marshall Englis
„I did not betray Mr. Kurtz—it was ordered I should never betray him—it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. I was anxious to deal with this shadow by myself alone—and to this day I don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with any one the
1+
#JosephConrad
#botd 1857
1+
#JosephConrad
#botd 1857
December 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
„I did not betray Mr. Kurtz—it was ordered I should never betray him—it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. I was anxious to deal with this shadow by myself alone—and to this day I don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with any one the
1+
#JosephConrad
#botd 1857
1+
#JosephConrad
#botd 1857
#AmericanReadalong
“No fear; I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery world that can hold, man.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 108. AHAB AND THE CARPENTERSer
gio Tedoldi
Captain Ahab from Moby Dick
Homage to Melville (Bukowskis)
“No fear; I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery world that can hold, man.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 108. AHAB AND THE CARPENTERSer
gio Tedoldi
Captain Ahab from Moby Dick
Homage to Melville (Bukowskis)
December 3, 2025 at 7:03 AM
#AmericanReadalong
“No fear; I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery world that can hold, man.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 108. AHAB AND THE CARPENTERSer
gio Tedoldi
Captain Ahab from Moby Dick
Homage to Melville (Bukowskis)
“No fear; I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery world that can hold, man.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 108. AHAB AND THE CARPENTERSer
gio Tedoldi
Captain Ahab from Moby Dick
Homage to Melville (Bukowskis)
JULIA
And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil
A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
LUCETTA
But in what habit will you go along?
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
II,7,37-39
Costume Designer: Dorothy Marshall Englis
And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil
A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
LUCETTA
But in what habit will you go along?
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
II,7,37-39
Costume Designer: Dorothy Marshall Englis
December 2, 2025 at 6:43 AM
JULIA
And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil
A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
LUCETTA
But in what habit will you go along?
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
II,7,37-39
Costume Designer: Dorothy Marshall Englis
And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil
A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
LUCETTA
But in what habit will you go along?
William Shakespeare
#TwoGents_2025
II,7,37-39
Costume Designer: Dorothy Marshall Englis
#AmericanReadalong
„Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter, was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 107.
Complete manual for building carpenters and chest makers
The „ordinary“ workbench 1877
„Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter, was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 107.
Complete manual for building carpenters and chest makers
The „ordinary“ workbench 1877
December 2, 2025 at 6:28 AM
#AmericanReadalong
„Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter, was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 107.
Complete manual for building carpenters and chest makers
The „ordinary“ workbench 1877
„Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter, was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
CHAPTER 107.
Complete manual for building carpenters and chest makers
The „ordinary“ workbench 1877
SPEED
What, are they broken?
LAUNCE
No; they are both as whole as a fish.
#TwoGents_2025
II,5,17-18
Launce and Speed are servants: born to serve, contented to serve, with little or no ambition beyond it.
Launce and Speed
From The Fools of Shakespeare by Frederick Warde.
McBride, Nast & company.
What, are they broken?
LAUNCE
No; they are both as whole as a fish.
#TwoGents_2025
II,5,17-18
Launce and Speed are servants: born to serve, contented to serve, with little or no ambition beyond it.
Launce and Speed
From The Fools of Shakespeare by Frederick Warde.
McBride, Nast & company.
December 2, 2025 at 5:21 AM
SPEED
What, are they broken?
LAUNCE
No; they are both as whole as a fish.
#TwoGents_2025
II,5,17-18
Launce and Speed are servants: born to serve, contented to serve, with little or no ambition beyond it.
Launce and Speed
From The Fools of Shakespeare by Frederick Warde.
McBride, Nast & company.
What, are they broken?
LAUNCE
No; they are both as whole as a fish.
#TwoGents_2025
II,5,17-18
Launce and Speed are servants: born to serve, contented to serve, with little or no ambition beyond it.
Launce and Speed
From The Fools of Shakespeare by Frederick Warde.
McBride, Nast & company.
Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳!
„Moreover, the ship's forge was ordered to be hoisted out of its temporary idleness in the hold; and, to accelerate the affair, the blacksmith was commanded to proceed at once to the forging of whatever iron contrivances might be needed.“
#AmericanReadalong
„Moreover, the ship's forge was ordered to be hoisted out of its temporary idleness in the hold; and, to accelerate the affair, the blacksmith was commanded to proceed at once to the forging of whatever iron contrivances might be needed.“
#AmericanReadalong
December 1, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳!
„Moreover, the ship's forge was ordered to be hoisted out of its temporary idleness in the hold; and, to accelerate the affair, the blacksmith was commanded to proceed at once to the forging of whatever iron contrivances might be needed.“
#AmericanReadalong
„Moreover, the ship's forge was ordered to be hoisted out of its temporary idleness in the hold; and, to accelerate the affair, the blacksmith was commanded to proceed at once to the forging of whatever iron contrivances might be needed.“
#AmericanReadalong
VALENTINE
Then speak the truth by her: if not divine,
Yet let her be a principality,
Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth.
#TwoGents_2025
II,4,149-151
Then speak the truth by her: if not divine,
Yet let her be a principality,
Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth.
#TwoGents_2025
II,4,149-151
November 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
VALENTINE
Then speak the truth by her: if not divine,
Yet let her be a principality,
Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth.
#TwoGents_2025
II,4,149-151
Then speak the truth by her: if not divine,
Yet let her be a principality,
Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth.
#TwoGents_2025
II,4,149-151
#AmericanReadalong
… „there seems no reason to doubt that if these elephants, which have now been hunted for thousands of years … if they still survive there in great numbers, much more may the great whale outlast all hunting, since he has a pasture to expatiate in,
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… „there seems no reason to doubt that if these elephants, which have now been hunted for thousands of years … if they still survive there in great numbers, much more may the great whale outlast all hunting, since he has a pasture to expatiate in,
1+
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
#AmericanReadalong
… „there seems no reason to doubt that if these elephants, which have now been hunted for thousands of years … if they still survive there in great numbers, much more may the great whale outlast all hunting, since he has a pasture to expatiate in,
1+
… „there seems no reason to doubt that if these elephants, which have now been hunted for thousands of years … if they still survive there in great numbers, much more may the great whale outlast all hunting, since he has a pasture to expatiate in,
1+
VALENTINE
And though myself have been an idle truant,
Omitting the sweet benefit of time
To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection,
Yet hath Sir Protes (for that's his name)
Made use and fair advantage of his days:
…
He is complete in feature and in mind,
With all good grace to grace
1+
And though myself have been an idle truant,
Omitting the sweet benefit of time
To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection,
Yet hath Sir Protes (for that's his name)
Made use and fair advantage of his days:
…
He is complete in feature and in mind,
With all good grace to grace
1+
November 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
VALENTINE
And though myself have been an idle truant,
Omitting the sweet benefit of time
To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection,
Yet hath Sir Protes (for that's his name)
Made use and fair advantage of his days:
…
He is complete in feature and in mind,
With all good grace to grace
1+
And though myself have been an idle truant,
Omitting the sweet benefit of time
To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection,
Yet hath Sir Protes (for that's his name)
Made use and fair advantage of his days:
…
He is complete in feature and in mind,
With all good grace to grace
1+
#AmericanReadalong
„Who can show a pedigree like Leviathan? Ahab's harpoon had shed older blood than the Pharaoh's.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 104.
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
„Who can show a pedigree like Leviathan? Ahab's harpoon had shed older blood than the Pharaoh's.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 104.
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
November 29, 2025 at 8:20 AM
#AmericanReadalong
„Who can show a pedigree like Leviathan? Ahab's harpoon had shed older blood than the Pharaoh's.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 104.
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
„Who can show a pedigree like Leviathan? Ahab's harpoon had shed older blood than the Pharaoh's.“
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Chapter 104.
Illustrated by Rockwell Kent
#Flights
#Tokarczuk25
THE TSAR'S COLLECTION
„… he confirmed his suspicions that some of the cargo had been damaged. Some dozen or so of the hundreds of jars they were transporting had been opened, and their liquid contents, a strong brandy, drunk till the last drop.
1
#Tokarczuk25
THE TSAR'S COLLECTION
„… he confirmed his suspicions that some of the cargo had been damaged. Some dozen or so of the hundreds of jars they were transporting had been opened, and their liquid contents, a strong brandy, drunk till the last drop.
1
November 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
#Flights
#Tokarczuk25
THE TSAR'S COLLECTION
„… he confirmed his suspicions that some of the cargo had been damaged. Some dozen or so of the hundreds of jars they were transporting had been opened, and their liquid contents, a strong brandy, drunk till the last drop.
1
#Tokarczuk25
THE TSAR'S COLLECTION
„… he confirmed his suspicions that some of the cargo had been damaged. Some dozen or so of the hundreds of jars they were transporting had been opened, and their liquid contents, a strong brandy, drunk till the last drop.
1
„No production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona is complete without a dog …
Crab the dog in this production was played by Ria in the UK. According to tradition, the original Crab belonged to the famous Elizabethan clown, Will Kempe, who played Launce.“
#TwoGents_2025
I,3
Crab the dog in this production was played by Ria in the UK. According to tradition, the original Crab belonged to the famous Elizabethan clown, Will Kempe, who played Launce.“
#TwoGents_2025
I,3
November 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
„No production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona is complete without a dog …
Crab the dog in this production was played by Ria in the UK. According to tradition, the original Crab belonged to the famous Elizabethan clown, Will Kempe, who played Launce.“
#TwoGents_2025
I,3
Crab the dog in this production was played by Ria in the UK. According to tradition, the original Crab belonged to the famous Elizabethan clown, Will Kempe, who played Launce.“
#TwoGents_2025
I,3