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“Sweet, in opening spring, to trace upon the hill-side, otherwise gray and bare—to trace, I say, the oldest paths by their streaks of earliest green. Sweet, indeed, I can’t deny” — the piazza tales, Herman Melville #melvillemonday #naturesky #bloomsky #literature

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Round the world…whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started…Were this world an endless plain…in pursuit…they either lead us on in barren mazes or midway leave us whelmed.
#MelvilleMonday 🐳

Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳 !

James Joyce
Ulysses II,11,963 Sirens

„Sea, wind, leaves, thunder, waters, cows lowing, the cattle market, cocks, hens don't crow, snakes hissss. There's music everywhere.“

Heinrich Vogtherr d.Ä.
1490–1556
Holzschnitt

Sailboat, Holland (1902)
by Alexander Koester

Thank you for your bucolic posts, dear Bibliophiles!

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art by Jean-Honore Fragonard (1767)

A close up of cherry blossoms with pale petals.

A close up of cherry blossoms with pale petals.

A close up of cherry blossoms with pale petals.

Hints of sweetness and spring! 🌸

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The remarkable and overlooked Irish writer Beatrice Grimshaw: our newest publication, STRANGE SOUTH SEAS, collecting her best fantastical and uncanny tales.

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A tiny woollen flamingo stands on a shelf holding a sign. Positive Flamingo I may be a tiny flamingo, but 1 believe in you! Go do your thing Stand Tall and Be Flamazing

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Ashbery Farm III

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Trying to fix a new header on Instagram 🫡 I’m sure it will be lovely. But if you see me go on private/post 8000 times understand I am literally 🐙 wrestling with 🌊 ⛵️ 🌊 🙏 and no 🗺️ 😭

“My lord, autumn soon merges in winter, but the spring has all the seasons before. The full-blown rose is nearer withering than the bud. The faint morn is a blossom: the crimson sunset the flower.” Chapter 50, Mardi. #Melvillemonday #naturesky #bloomsky #spring #classiclit

Manta - the devil's ray

But look! fathoms down in the sea; where ever saw you a phantom like that? An enormous crescent with antlers and a Delta of mouths. Slowly it sinks, and is seen no more.
Doctor Faust saw the devil; but you have seen the "Devil Fish."

Mardi I/XIII

Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!

Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳 !

„Being once pursued by a whale which he had wounded, he parried the assault for some time with a lance; but the furious monster at length rushed on the boat; himself and comrades only being preserved by leaping into the water when they saw the onset was inevitable.“

World's biggest heart: 180kg of blue whale - The Korea Times Many people have believed that the heart of a blue whale, the largest animal known to have lived on Earth, would be the size of a car.Some research...

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#MelvilleMonday

From the Supplement to Melville's Battle-Pieces, written approximately one year after the end of the Civil War. • Source: HERMAN MELVILLE: COMPLETE POEMS Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y. First Printing, 2019, Library of America.

"Portrait of Herman Melville, by Joseph Oriel Eaton (1829-1875). Oil on canvas. Commissioned and presented to the family by Melville's brother-in-law, John Hoadley (May 1870). The portrait now hangs in the Edison and Newman Room in the Houghton Library at Harvard University." • Source: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Modern Books and Manuscripts.

#MelvilleMonday

"There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual impartiality should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan."

- Melville, c. 1866

Even many of the more considerate and industrious of the citizens . . . yielded to the ascendancy of curiosity over interest, and strayed from their shops, and their work-yards to gaze upon the noble spectacle of a moving ship.
#MelvilleMonday

James Fenimore Cooper
The Red Rover

#MobyDick
#HermanMelville

The cabin; by the stern windows;
Ahab sitting alone, and gazing out.
I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.
#MelvilleMonday 🐳

Whaleboat -Length: 28-30; length can vary Beam: 6'3" Whaleboats were an essential piece of equipment for a ship like the Charles W. Morgan. When a whale was spotted, the whaleboats would be lowered into the water, and a crew of six people would climb down into each boat. The crew would row towards the whale with five long oars. The harpooner would row in the bow, or front, of the boat, ready to dart a harpoon into the whale. An officer would be in the back or stern, with the steering oar. Rowing was the main form of propulsion, but these whaleboats also have a mast and rig for sailing. These whaleboats are part of a fleet that was built for the Charles W. Morgan's 38th Voyage in 2014. Each one was built by a different boatbuilding organization, which is why each one is slightly different. Our whaleboats are currently used to teach rowing and sailing to the public. From the signage at Mystic Seaport, USA. On site for Oceanic Melville 2025, stood here, captured this image.

“As a general thing, therefore, you must first get to a whale, before any pitchpoling comes into play.”

#MelvilleMonday

“My lord, autumn soon merges in winter, but the spring has all the seasons before. The full-blown rose is nearer withering than the bud. The faint morn is a blossom: the crimson sunset the flower.” Chapter 50, Mardi. #Melvillemonday #naturesky #bloomsky #spring #classiclit

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with stacks of cups and saucers ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with stacks of cups and saucers

"No sensible man given to quiet domestic delights, would exchange his warm fireside and muffins, for a heroic bivouac, in a wild beechen wood, of a raw gusty morning in Normandy; every knight blowing his steel-gloved fingers, and vainly striving to cook his cold coffee in his helmet." #melvillemardi

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