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"I love Thornfield. I love it, bc I have lived in it a full and delightful life, momentarily at least. I have not been trampled on. I have not been petrified. I've not been buried w inferior minds, excluded from every glimpse of communion with what is bright" #BookologyThursday
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Memorable places in folklore: Tír na nÓg—the Irish Land of Youth, where no one ages and sorrow cannot follow beyond the western sea. 🌿✨
A realm of beauty, music, and endless feasting… yet time waits for no one who leaves it.
“There is a country where all things are fair.”
— W. B. Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin
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🎨Oisín and Niamh travelling to Tír na nÓg, illustration by Stephen Reid in T. W. Rolleston's The High Deeds of Finn (1910)
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A valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate passages in my progress to the studio of his master.
The Fall of The House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
Charles Marie Bouton #BookologyThursday
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#Bookologythursday 📚 #Mounds
In Icelandic folklore, the Huldufólk (“hidden people”) dwell within ancient mounds and rocky hills, their unseen homes woven into the land itself. ⛰️
These quiet dwellers of stone and earth are said to live in harmony with nature, shaping customs, respect for the land, and enduring lore. 🌄
Below Photo: little houses - called alfhól - are built for the Huldufólk, the hidden elves.
Photographer Matthias Hauser. 📷
The #Huldufólk remain a living legend of Iceland’s heritage. 🇮🇸
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The old man of the inn brought me a plate and a cup of coffee to the window seat and carried a lively conversation with me. When I told him of my boyhood visits he seemed particularly pleased.
"The Blicher-Walk" by Thomas Lange
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🎨Pierre Bonnard
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7:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra
From 2017, Ep 9 (of 10) 📻 “The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4” - “Dealing With Pandora”
Sue Townsend's 1982 novel📖 abridged by Sara Davies & read by Harry McEntire.
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“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
📖 “Brideshead Revisited” ~ Evelyn Waugh, 1945
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🎥 “Brideshead Revisited”, 2008
8pm TODAY on @BBCFOUR
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Rebecca's World is a fantasy adventure novel by Terry Nation, the celebrated screenwriter famous for creating the Daleks in Doctor Who. Originally published in 1975, the story began as a series of bedtime tales Nation told to his daughter, Rebecca. #BookologyThursday 📚
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"I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and dragons of home under one’s skin, at the extreme corners of one’s eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe"
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The old man of the inn brought me a plate and a cup of coffee to the window seat and carried a lively conversation with me. When I told him of my boyhood visits he seemed particularly pleased.
"The Blicher-Walk" by Thomas Lange
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🎨Pierre Bonnard
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The Blue Grotto or Grotta Azzurra, in Italian, is a magical sea cave on the coast of the island of Capri in southern Italy.
Sunlight shining through an underwater cavity is reflected back upward through the seawater below the cavern, giving the water a blue glow that illuminates the cavern. The cave extends 50metres into the cliff at the surface, & is about 150metres deep, with a sandy bottom.
In 1842, Danish choreographer August Bournonville set the 2nd act of his ballet Napoli, in the Blue Grotto. In this fantastic tale, Golfo, the demon who rules the Blue Grotto, transforms the ballet's heroine, Teresina, into a Naiad.
In Greek mythology, the naiads are a female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks & other bodies of fresh water.
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#FairytaleTuesday #FairytaleFlash #AIart #FolkloreSunday #MythologyMonday
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“This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss”
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
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Memorable places in folklore: beneath the hills of Ireland, Scotland, and England lie the fairy mounds—sí and sìthean—hollow places of earth and stone where the Aos Sí dwell, hidden from mortal sight. 🌄🧚♀️
Not portals, but overlapping worlds, where time bends and feasts shimmer just beyond reach.
Sources: Robert Kirk, The Secret Commonwealth; Katherine Briggs, An Encyclopedia of Fairies
🎨 'Silbury Hill, 'by Paul Nash circa 1922.
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"Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you returned to them, they had changed - they suddenly had more space or a tilt or a door that had not been there before"
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"There is a common superstition that “self-respect” is a kind of charm against snakes, something that keeps those who have it locked in some unblighted Eden, out of strange beds, ambivalent conversations, and trouble in general"
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In Norse mythology, Hel’s hall Éljúðnir (“damp with sleet”) in Helheim contains grim symbols: a dish called Hunger, a knife Famine, a bed Sick-bed, curtains Bleak Misfortune, and a threshold Stumbling Block.
Source: Snorri Sturluson, Prose Edda (Gylfaginning).
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🎨Carl Emil Doepler (1824–1905).
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“Man is never perfect, nor contended.”
📖 “L'Île mystérieuse” / “The Mysterious Island” ~ Jules Verne, 1875
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🎥 “Mysterious Island”, 1961
4:45pm TODAY on @Film4
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"Alice... began: `Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too! I never saw one alive before!'
`Well, now that we have seen each other,'... `if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you."
-Lewis Carroll
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🎨 John Tenniel
