“…hearts in caskets
tossed onto a battle ground”
references the story of how James Douglas, taking Robert the Bruce’s embalmed heart to the Holy Land, was slain in battle in Spain. The story is given in (amongst other places) Walter Scott’s TALES OF A GRANDFATHER
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…but witness these brittle August
bluebells casting seed,
like tiny hearts in caskets
tossed onto a battle ground.
—Kathleen Jamie, “Reliquary”
published in THE TREE HOUSE (Picador, 2004)
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https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/the-tree-house/9781509891825
C. S. Forester (1899-1966) was born on this day. While best known for his Horatio Hornblower novels (a favorite of my youth), he also wrote a handful of speculative fiction stories: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?6701
L, Virgil Finlay, 1948; R, Dick Shelton, 1956
#scifi #sciencefiction #books #literature
This morning I finally got to listen to the latest episode of Working Class Literature. It's a recording from Florence Working-Class Literature Festival and captures both the writers and organizers at the festival and an active struggle of occupying workers at a factory. It's absolutely worth listening to.
https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/wcl-14-live-from-the-working-class-literature-festival/
'Auguste Rodin & Balzac, Approaching the Gates of Hell'
pondering Rodin’s radical statues that were inspired by #literature & changed the trajectory of Modern #sculpture...
LOBONIAN SOCIETY. A society which met at Lob Hall, at the King and Queen, Norton Falgate, by order of Lob the great.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons
Thirukkural – 90/1330
Part 1 – Virtue
Chapter – 9 (Hospitality)
மோப்பக் குழையும் அனிச்சம் முகந்திரிந்து
நோக்கக் குழையும் விருந்து.
Transliteration:
Mōppak kuḻaiyum aṉiccam mukandirinthu
Nōkkak kunaḻyum virundu.
English Meaning:
Just as the Anicham flower withers with a single sniff,
A guest can wither under a cold, unwelcome gaze.
தமிழ் அர்த்தம்:
அனிச்சம் பூ ஒரு வாசிப்பால் அலிந்து போவது போல், வரவேற்பின்றி சளிப்பாக முகம் நகைத்து நோக்கும் பார்வையால் விருந்தினரும் உள்ளத்தினால் வாடிப் போவர்.
On the Calculation of Volume: Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize
"Thats how little the activities of one person matter on the eighteenth of November"
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#literature #womensfiction #translated #fiction #Books #BookSky
On the Calculation of Volume (...
#Trump cancels National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship
Alice Walker. Charles Bukowski. Louise Erdrich. Juan Felipe Herrera. These are just some of the #authors who received a #CreativeWriting fellowship from the #NEA over the years. The fellowship has now been canceled.
#arts #literature
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/26/nx-s1-5518202/nea-cancels-creative-writing-fellowship
Margaret and her asbestos gods
https://subspacewagon.systems/margaret-and-her-asbestos-gods/
What a joy not to be touched
https://subspacewagon.systems/what-a-joy-not-to-be-touched/
“I stayed close enough to feel your light. Far enough not to burn.”
-S. Thorn
#ai #nature #literature #quotes #poetry
Its an interesting video on why books were written so cookie cutter like.
This is Why We Never Got Another Lord of the Rings
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_BBrDhgGz1k
Can the fantasy genre exist without industry formulas? How much does it even matter?The "Golden Age of Fantasy" was probably a little less golden than most p...
Do you know someone who loves Narnia? They have just one week left to sign up for my course! Myth & Meaning Through the Wardrobe https://youtu.be/Pvx1dElzeRU?si=GGSFtsdlJdX4GRE4
#Narnia #CSLewis #books #reading #literature #courses #onlineclass #onlinecourse
Since the Fairy Queen keeps calling Song Jiang “Star Lord”, I can’t help but think that he later ascends to be Master of the Sun and in the future makes Peter Quill the next Star Lord.
For those interested in looking at #solarpunk more academically and/or politically, ISE is launching a new course on utopian literature in just a few weeks: https://social-ecology.org/wp/courses/utopian-literature/
The syllabus looks great - the texts chosen are some of my favorites! This would be a great intro for anyone interested in utopian thinking, narrative change, and other ways of approaching hope in dark times.
Habdlan recibe la visita del príncipe Seigmur, quien le propone un plan para manipular a los De Vonder, revelándole que Tamalor, aliado de los De Vonder, conspira con la princesa Mable para eliminar a Xavier https://fictograma.com/ver_cuento?id=953
While it’s been satisfying to highlight the heroes in Outlaws of the Marsh, it does get a little complicated in the big scenes where over twenty characters are mentioned in a single page.
Conveniently most of the groups are listed in rank, although occasionally they are not.
En las calles del viejo Cuzco, un escritor melancólico vaga con flores de floripondio, atrapado en alucinaciones y angustia. Su mente se desintegra, las palabras se pierden. https://fictograma.com/ver_cuento?id=952
Los agentes escapan con vida del ataque a la Gendarmería; sin embargo, en un giro inesperado de la trama, la agente Baros descubre la homosexualidad de los agentes de Interlpol en episodio de música y sensualidad https://fictograma.com/ver_cuento?id=950
Reynard the Fox was a prominent figure in medieval European folktales, a trickster and everyman. He would bedevil various other anthropomorphic animals, frequently satirizing the nobility and clergy. However, Reynard's main enemy was his uncle, the wolf Isengrim.
Ernest Henri Griset
