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#JosephConrad

"Evidently the appetite for more ivory had got the better of the—what shall I say?—less material aspirations."

Ch. 3

Carving-up the spoils😤

Thank you, Laura. Isn't that a most bonny blessing for the holidays!🚿🙏✨🙏....Míle Buíochas🍑

Thank you, Laura ("magic alight"👌🥰). I don't think it, or anything like it, could be made ever again simply because the old vaudevillians – who brought that magical je ne sais quoi – are long gone. I can be a quite a shameless booster for Boston/ians, can't I?🤭 | 🙏☘️

The Rachel Carson quote is from her acceptance speech of the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1952) for The Sea Around Us.

Owl's Head, Penobscot Bay, Maine (1862) by Fitz Henry Lane (American, 1804-1865). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Public domain.

#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.

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So generous, so gracious, Laura. What can be better than sharing holiday cheer, or simple everyday joy, with kindred spirits?🕯️🫶🕯️ Blessings to you and yours from the both of us.✨🕊️✨

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness was first published, in book form, in the collection "Youth: A Narrative, and Two Other Stories" in 1902; however, it was published previously as a three-part serial in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899, when Conrad was 41 years old.

• Joseph Conrad, born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 1857, Berdychiv, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (modern-day Ukraine). • Photo of Joseph Conrad, 1904 (age 46) by George Charles Beresford. Source: National Portrait Gallery.

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"If the absolutely pure, uncalculating, unpractical spirit of adventure had ever ruled a human being, it ruled this be-patched youth. I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame."

Ch. 3

A beautiful song.

Happy to...though I'm a slave to the translate button.☺️🤝☘️

From Emily Dickinson's own hand. "It is a penciled worksheet draft written on the back of a discarded envelope and on another paper scrap. The envelope bears an arrival postmark of 9 November 1880." T. Johnson, ed. Original Document Source: Emily Dickinson Collection, Amherst College Digital Collection. Poem identification number: Amherst Manuscript # 317, Franklin # 1554, Johnson # 1533.

Emily Dickinson's own hand. "It is a penciled worksheet draft written on the back of a discarded envelope and on another paper scrap. The envelope bears an arrival postmark of 9 November 1880." T. Johnson, ed. Original Document Source: Emily Dickinson Collection, Amherst College Digital Collection.

On that specific Pillow
Our projects flit away -
The Night's tremendous Morrow
And whether sleep will stay
Or usher us - a stranger -
To situations new
The effort to comprise it
Is all the soul can do.

- Emily Dickinson, c. 1881

ED's draft written on the back of an envelope and a paper scrap:

A beauty.

...I could skate away on (Joni Mitchell)?☺️

Beautifully done – both photo and poetic prose.🕊️

#SundaySentence

"We knew him in those unprotected days when we were content to hold in our hands our lives and our property."

- Joseph Conrad (Karain: A Memory)

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Well done, David.

Well done🍂

• Joseph Conrad, born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 1857, Berdychiv, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (modern-day Ukraine). • Photo of Joseph Conrad, 1904 (age 46) by George Charles Beresford. Source: National Portrait Gallery.

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"He had no restraint, no restraint— just like Kurtz—a tree swayed by the wind. […] Oh! he was heavy, heavy; heavier than any man on earth, I should imagine. Then without more ado I tipped him overboard."

Ch. 2

• Joseph Conrad, born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 1857, Berdychiv, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (modern-day Ukraine). • Photo of Joseph Conrad, 1904 (age 46) by George Charles Beresford. Source: National Portrait Gallery.

#JosephConrad

"He won't be forgotten. Whatever he was, he was not common."

Ch. 2

How sweet!🥰

Dedication to The Wizard of Oz (1939)🎬

A very insightful, and long, paragraph. 'Tidy' seems the perfect word.

"All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz..."

That's 🎯🤯

Wonderful stuff this is!💙⚓️

Both Ray Bolger (Hunk/Scarecrow) and Jack Haley (Hickory/Tin Man) were born in Boston and got their starts in vaudeville there.

YouTube video by YoYoMaVEVO Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott - Over the Rainbow (Official Video)

My wife and I started our holiday movie-watching season with this 1939 gem.🎥

From the Shalin Liu Performance Center, a beautiful 350-seat concert hall in Rockport, Massachusetts:

Well done🎯

• Joseph Conrad, born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 1857, Berdychiv, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (modern-day Ukraine). • Photo of Joseph Conrad, 1904 (age 46) by George Charles Beresford. Source: National Portrait Gallery.

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"The thing was to know what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own. That was the reflection that made you creepy all over. […] He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the land — I mean literally."

Ch. 2

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Artist: Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904, American)
Title: Newburyport Meadows
Date: c. 1876-1881.
Materials: oil on canvas
Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Public domain.

Artist: Martin Johnson Heade Title: Newburyport Meadows Date: c. 1876-1881 Materials: oil on canvas Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Public domain.

~Thanksgiving~

This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the
water is,
This is the common air that bathes the globe.

- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, c. 1855