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@thepaleusher.bsky.social
Constant reader, occasional writer living near San Diego
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#Weihnachtstüren 1|25
„Es tickt die Zeit. Das Jahr dreht sich im Kreise.
Und werden kann nur, was schon immer war.
Geduld, mein Herz, im Kreise geht die Reise.
Und dem Dezember folgt der Januar.“
Erich Kästner
🚪: Berlin
„Es tickt die Zeit. Das Jahr dreht sich im Kreise.
Und werden kann nur, was schon immer war.
Geduld, mein Herz, im Kreise geht die Reise.
Und dem Dezember folgt der Januar.“
Erich Kästner
🚪: Berlin
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
#Weihnachtstüren 1|25
„Es tickt die Zeit. Das Jahr dreht sich im Kreise.
Und werden kann nur, was schon immer war.
Geduld, mein Herz, im Kreise geht die Reise.
Und dem Dezember folgt der Januar.“
Erich Kästner
🚪: Berlin
„Es tickt die Zeit. Das Jahr dreht sich im Kreise.
Und werden kann nur, was schon immer war.
Geduld, mein Herz, im Kreise geht die Reise.
Und dem Dezember folgt der Januar.“
Erich Kästner
🚪: Berlin
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Were geologists to assert that the continent of America had been formed by the simultaneous explosion of a train of Etnas laid under the water all the way from the North Pole to Cape Horn, I am the last man in the world to contradict them.
Typee. XX.
Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!
Typee. XX.
Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!
December 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Were geologists to assert that the continent of America had been formed by the simultaneous explosion of a train of Etnas laid under the water all the way from the North Pole to Cape Horn, I am the last man in the world to contradict them.
Typee. XX.
Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!
Typee. XX.
Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!
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#MelvilleMonday
"If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry."
- Rachel Carson, 1952
Fitz Henry Lane. Owl's Head, Penobscot Bay, Maine. 1862.
"If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry."
- Rachel Carson, 1952
Fitz Henry Lane. Owl's Head, Penobscot Bay, Maine. 1862.
December 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
#MelvilleMonday
"If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry."
- Rachel Carson, 1952
Fitz Henry Lane. Owl's Head, Penobscot Bay, Maine. 1862.
"If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry."
- Rachel Carson, 1952
Fitz Henry Lane. Owl's Head, Penobscot Bay, Maine. 1862.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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“At any rate, it is pleasant to read about whales through their own spectacles, as you may say.”
#MelvilleMonday
Whale stamp entry:
www.sturgislibrary.org/blog/stories...
#MelvilleMonday
Whale stamp entry:
www.sturgislibrary.org/blog/stories...
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
“At any rate, it is pleasant to read about whales through their own spectacles, as you may say.”
#MelvilleMonday
Whale stamp entry:
www.sturgislibrary.org/blog/stories...
#MelvilleMonday
Whale stamp entry:
www.sturgislibrary.org/blog/stories...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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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
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“But he seemed alone, absolutely alone in the universe. A bit of wreck in the mid Atlantic.”
— from “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
— from “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“But he seemed alone, absolutely alone in the universe. A bit of wreck in the mid Atlantic.”
— from “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
— from “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
December 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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“Poetry = practice of subtlety in a barbaric world. Whence the need to fight for poetry *today*: Poetry should be one of our ‘Human Rights’; it isn’t ‘decadent,’ it’s subversive: subversive and vital.”
— Roland Barthes, The Preparation of the Novel (tr. Kate Briggs)
— Roland Barthes, The Preparation of the Novel (tr. Kate Briggs)
November 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“Poetry = practice of subtlety in a barbaric world. Whence the need to fight for poetry *today*: Poetry should be one of our ‘Human Rights’; it isn’t ‘decadent,’ it’s subversive: subversive and vital.”
— Roland Barthes, The Preparation of the Novel (tr. Kate Briggs)
— Roland Barthes, The Preparation of the Novel (tr. Kate Briggs)
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I write to be loved: by a few, but *from a distance*.
— Roland Barthes
from The Preparation of the Novel
(lecture of December 15, 1979)
— Roland Barthes
from The Preparation of the Novel
(lecture of December 15, 1979)
November 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I write to be loved: by a few, but *from a distance*.
— Roland Barthes
from The Preparation of the Novel
(lecture of December 15, 1979)
— Roland Barthes
from The Preparation of the Novel
(lecture of December 15, 1979)
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Jonathan Swift - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
November 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Jonathan Swift - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
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#SundaySentence (s)
But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.
Cat’s Eye
~Margaret Atwood
But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.
Cat’s Eye
~Margaret Atwood
November 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
#SundaySentence (s)
But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.
Cat’s Eye
~Margaret Atwood
But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.
Cat’s Eye
~Margaret Atwood
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"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead." #SundaySentence #JamesJoyce #TheDead
November 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead." #SundaySentence #JamesJoyce #TheDead
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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
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My #sundaysentence this week performs a delightful left turn, courtesy the great @danchaon.bsky.social: “She kept her face stern and neutral, the kind of face you made when you chopped the head off of a chicken.” Honestly, what a terrific novel this is.
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
My #sundaysentence this week performs a delightful left turn, courtesy the great @danchaon.bsky.social: “She kept her face stern and neutral, the kind of face you made when you chopped the head off of a chicken.” Honestly, what a terrific novel this is.
From the perspective of 2001, my #SundaySentence from Thomas Pynchon:
“Future of film if you want to know—someday, more bandwidth, more video files up on the Internet, everybody’ll be shooting everything, way too much to look at, nothin will mean shit.”
Bleeding Edge
“Future of film if you want to know—someday, more bandwidth, more video files up on the Internet, everybody’ll be shooting everything, way too much to look at, nothin will mean shit.”
Bleeding Edge
November 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
From the perspective of 2001, my #SundaySentence from Thomas Pynchon:
“Future of film if you want to know—someday, more bandwidth, more video files up on the Internet, everybody’ll be shooting everything, way too much to look at, nothin will mean shit.”
Bleeding Edge
“Future of film if you want to know—someday, more bandwidth, more video files up on the Internet, everybody’ll be shooting everything, way too much to look at, nothin will mean shit.”
Bleeding Edge
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My #SundaySentence this week comes from the incomparable Tom Stoppard, from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead:
“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”✨💔
“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”✨💔
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
My #SundaySentence this week comes from the incomparable Tom Stoppard, from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead:
“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”✨💔
“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”✨💔
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we are floating lanterns
November 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
we are floating lanterns
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“Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets.”
Haruki Murakami.
Haruki Murakami.
November 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets.”
Haruki Murakami.
Haruki Murakami.
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Oak leaf floating in the shallows on a drizzly day.
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Oak leaf floating in the shallows on a drizzly day.
“I was ruminating,” said Mr. Pickwick, “on the strange mutability of human affairs.”
“Ah! I see—in at the palace door one day, out at the window the next. Philosopher, Sir?”
“An observer of human nature, Sir,” said Mr. Pickwick. (27)
Charles Dickens
“Ah! I see—in at the palace door one day, out at the window the next. Philosopher, Sir?”
“An observer of human nature, Sir,” said Mr. Pickwick. (27)
Charles Dickens
November 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
“I was ruminating,” said Mr. Pickwick, “on the strange mutability of human affairs.”
“Ah! I see—in at the palace door one day, out at the window the next. Philosopher, Sir?”
“An observer of human nature, Sir,” said Mr. Pickwick. (27)
Charles Dickens
“Ah! I see—in at the palace door one day, out at the window the next. Philosopher, Sir?”
“An observer of human nature, Sir,” said Mr. Pickwick. (27)
Charles Dickens
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November 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM