Sam Walks a Lot

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artist: Collin Bogle

Ethan Hawke and Jed in 1991’s WHITE FANG

“Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.”

Jack London, White Fang

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"We love to go for a walk in the snow"
by stevesandersonart
On Instagram

The Official Agatha Christie Puzzle Book.

The Australian open road

"The Open Road. The great home of the Soul is the open road."

D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature

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Ghostly shipwreck silhouetted against eerie light

I take pride withal in my humiliation, as I am to this privilege condemned; I am, I believe, alone of all our race, the only man in human memory to have been shipwrecked and cast up upon a deserted ship.

Umberto Eco - The Island of the Day Before

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Happy New Year, Vickie! Hope you're well xx

There's frost on the ground & calm in the air..
The old year is settling & the new one is stirring...

Happy New Year's Eve, everyone ❄️🎉

And what a day it was 😂

“How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?”

📖 “Doctor Zhivago” ~ Boris Pasternak, 1957

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🎥 “Doctor Zhivago”, 1965
2:55pm TODAY ON @BBCTwo

A SWORD IN A CLOUD OF LIGHT Your hand in mine, we walk out To watch the Christmas Eve crowds On Fillmore Street, the Negro District. The night is thick with Frost. The people hurry, wreathed In their smoky breaths. Before The shop windows the children Jump up and down with spangled Eyes. Santa Clauses ring bells, Cars stall and honk. Streetcars clang. Loud speakers on the lampposts Sing carols, on juke boxes In the bars Louis Armstrong Plays “White Christmas.” In the joints The girls strip and grind and bump To “Jingle Bells.” Overhead The neon signs scribble and Erase and scribble again Messages of avarice, Joy, fear, hygiene, and the proud Names of the middle classes. The moon beams like a pudding. We stop at the main corner And look up, diagonally Across, at the rising moon, And the solemn, orderly Vast winter constellations. You say, “There’s Orion!” The most beautiful object Either of us will ever Know in the world or in life Stands in the moonlit empty Heavens, over the swarming Men, women, and children, black And white, joyous and greedy, Evil and good, buyer and Seller, master and victim, Like some immense theorem, Which, if once solved would forever Solve the mystery and pain Under the bells and spangles. There he is, the man of the Night before Christmas, spread out On the sky like a true god In whom it would only be Necessary to believe A little. I am fifty And you are five. It would do No good to say this and it May do no good to write it. Believe in Orion. Believe In the night, the moon, the crowded Earth. Believe in Christmas and Birthdays and Easter rabbits. Believe in all those fugitive Compounds of nature, all doomed To waste away and go out. Always be true to these things. They are all there is. Never Give up this savage religion For the blood-drenched civilized Abstractions of the rascals Who live by killing you and me. Kenneth Rexroth - 1955 Picture of the constellation Orion over the Golden Gate Bridge

I am fifty
And you are five. It would do
No good to say this and it
May do no good to write it.
Believe in Orion. Believe
In the night, the moon, the crowded
Earth. Believe in Christmas and
Birthdays and Easter rabbits.

Excerpt from A SWORD IN A CLOUD OF LIGHT - Kenneth Rexroth
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Quiet rural landscape in winter, with leafless trees emerging from morning mist across a frosted field.

"Not till we are lost - in other words, not till we have lost the world - do we begin to find ourselves."

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My secret location last week was Charles Dickens' house with @samwalksalot.bsky.social. I sat at his desk, laid on his deathbed and explored his cellar. See first comment for Sam's excellent video!

Featuring Hedley's most exquisite drone shots!

Then, farewell, heat, and welcome, frost!

MOV 2:7

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@hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.
They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life."

H. Hesse, Wandering: Notes and Sketches
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We climbed, he first and I behind, until though a small round opening ahead of us, I saw the lovely things the heavens hold, and we came out to see once more the stars.

~Dante Alighieri
Divine Comedy (1308-1320)

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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Monday
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7:45pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra

From 2016, Ep 6 of 10 of Drama 📻 “JANE EYRE” directed by Tracey Neale

Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel📖 dramatised by Rachel Joyce

🌟 Amanda Hale, Tom Burke, Susan Jameson, Tracy Wile, Ewan Bailey

📻👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

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Aye aye 😁

Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way,
Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring,

Percy B Shelley

Charles Conder
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“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”

📖 “An Outcast of the Islands” ~ Joseph Conrad, 1896

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🎥 “Outcast of the Islands”, 1951
11am TODAY on @Film4

“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”

📖 “Moby-Dick” ~ Herman Melville, 1851

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🎥 “Moby Dick”, 1956
1pm TODAY on @Legend__Channel

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"Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree."

Emily Brontë, Fall, leaves, fall
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“O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.”

📖 “Far from the Madding Crowd” ~ Thomas Hardy, 1874

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🎥 “Far from the Madding Crowd”, 1967
1pm TODAY on @Film4

7:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra

From 1995, Ep 1 (of 10) 📻 “The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux” “The Ghost” abridged by #AndrewSimpson & read by #JackKlaff

#GastonLeroux's novel🎥, first published in 1909.

📻@BBCSounds 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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