You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

~C.S. Lewis
🎨Jane Crowther

Have you stopped to consider that's why I'm laughing?

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Thank you for your bucolic posts, dear Bibliophiles!

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art by Jean-Honore Fragonard (1767)

The sky was clear -- remarkably clear -- and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy

Joseph Farquharson #BookologyThursday

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Classic Literature & Cinema
Ep 3 of 3,
Great Crime & Punishment Novel Adaptations

A look at film🎥 adaptations of novels📖 on the subjects of crime & punishment, exploring how they have been brought to the big screen.

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CúChulainn and Emer, cropped from Stephen Reid's artpiece on which there are no known copyright restrictions

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `For Emer’s sake and theirs #Cuchulain went with her and his friends to the lightsome summer palace, and sat down with the poets and artists and the women-folk to listen to sweet beguiling music and tales of ancient deeds to while away the time.
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CúChulainn and Emer, cropped from Stephen Reid's artpiece on which there are no known copyright restrictions

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `For Emer’s sake and theirs #Cuchulain went with her and his friends to the lightsome summer palace, and sat down with the poets and artists and the women-folk to listen to sweet beguiling music and tales of ancient deeds to while […]

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Rat and Mole meet the god Pan as he plays his pipes in the forest. An illustration by Troy Howell for "The Wind in the Willows."

"Oh, Mole! The beauty of it! The merry bubble and joy, the thin, clear, happy call of the distant piping! The call in it is stronger even than the music is sweet! Row on, Mole, row! For the music and the call must be for us."
- Kenneth Grahame, "Wind in the Willows"
🎨Troy Howell
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Deirdre and Naoise, cut out from Deirdre, woodcut on laid paper by Althea Gyles, Deirdre (1898), public domain

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `Deirdre loved her life, for she was free as the brown partridge flying over the mountains, or as the vessels with ruddy sails swinging upon the loch. …
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Et in Arcadia ego
(The Arcadian Shepherds)
by Nicolas Poussin (1637-38)

Translated as ‘Even in Arcadia, there am I’ the phrase often interpreted as a memento mori.

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'Spring Messengers'. Painting depicting the coming of spring as a classical bridal couple accompanied by birds flying across a green landscape.

'The year stood at its equinox
And bluff the North was blowing,
A bleat of lambs came from the flocks,
Green hardy things were growing'
~Christina Rossetti

🎨 Dominique Lang
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Welcome to #BookologyThursday

Join us today as #BookologyThursday takes a pastoral jaunt through literature, art & lore with the theme:

🍃🐑IDYLLIC IDYLS🐑🍃

🎨 Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)

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"Forget the invaders’ names, except the Romans, who... borrowed some of her branches
To weave wreaths. They did not treat her as a prisoner of war
But as a venerable grandmother, before whose calm dignity
Swords shatter."

—The Second Olive Tree, Mahmoud Darwish

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Deirdre and Naoise, cut out from Deirdre, woodcut on laid paper by Althea Gyles, Deirdre (1898), public domain

#BookologyThursday #Celtic: `Deirdre loved her life, for she was free as the brown partridge flying over the mountains, or as the vessels with ruddy sails swinging upon the loch. …
One sultry evening in the late autumn, Deirdre and Naisi were resting before […]

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"Mine be a cot beside the hill;
A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear;
A willowy brook that turns a mill,
With many a fall shall linger near ..."

Samuel Rogers - A Wish
🎨Thomas Kinkade

"Majnun spent all of his time alone, surrounded only by the animals of the wilderness that gathered around him and protected him during the long desert nights... reciting poetry to himself and writing in the sand with a long stick."

—Layla and Majnun

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Dreaming fox.

art by Fang Chuxiong
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"I had spent whole mornings wandering among the ruins, breathing in the wormwood, warming myself against the stones, discovering little roses... Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed under a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then."

—Return to Tipasa, Albert Camus

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In 19th century England rectangular livestock paintings were commissioned by prosperous farmers to showcase their wealth and status. The same artistic distortion would also be applied to pigs and sheep.

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Two shepherds in Arcadia gaze upon a skull. Painting by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri.

"The woods of Arcady are dead,
And over is their antique joy.
Of old the world on dreaming fed;
Grey Truth is now her painted toy...."
- W. B. Yeats, "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"

🎨Giovanni Francesco Barbieri
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Poem by contemporary writer Jack Thomas 🎨 'Italian Shepherdess' William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)

from 'The Uncanny Shepherdess'

"There is a shepherdess down the road a ways...
Among the frost, in the dark of a lambing night
she is singing a song...
a balm against fear,
a thanks to the winter,
a come-hither glance and sly smile for spring
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Miss Marple pruning roses in The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple

Whispers in the reeds,

Philip Huckin

Monet refused to leave Giverny, even through illness. “What I need most are flowers, always,” he said— and so he stayed, painting the life that bloomed just beyond his window.

A library. A slender old man with a book in his hat gazes towards a window which is illuminating a startlingly yellow cockatoo.

Weird picture of the day: 'Library' by Franz Sedlacek.
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Cottage in the Dunes

Jean-Charles Cazin
French, 1841-1901

Here, where the world is quiet;
Here, where all trouble seems
Dead winds' and spent waves' riot
In doubtful dreams of dreams.

~Algernon Charles Swinburne
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#BookologyThursday 📚 #Arcadia ✨
📖 The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1593)
by Sir Philip Sidney

Written for his sister Mary Sidney Herbert, Arcadia helped shape the English novel—blending romance, adventure, and pastoral idyll.