Learner Cellist. Adores rain, libraries, people who rescue greyhounds & REALLY REALLY funny folk.
Joined May 2013
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22 Nov 2024
Hope you're having a wonderful day, dear Charlotte. Look who else you're sharing it with!!🌷🌷🌷
@avecsesdoigts
22 Nov 2024
Just checked in here. Thank you everyone for the lovely birthday greetings. A big hug to one and all x
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27 Sep 2024
~I grew up with a trained tongue, linguistic enculturation shaped my speaking muscles, and I need to find my own words.~
Thank you, Susanna🙏
@crossmansusanna
#HomeIsWhereWeStart
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14 Aug 2024
~As he moved in his mind from one place to another, borrowing books on each, life to him seemed more an idea than a reality.~
@hishamjmatar
#MyFriends
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13 Aug 2024
~I wanted, more than anything else, the wants and demands of others.~
@hishamjmatar
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11 Aug 2024
~As I listened to him, courage scaled the walls and smuggled itself in.~
@hishamjmatar
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19 Jul 2024
~Weddings are notoriously depressing affairs.~
#AnthonyPowell24
#ADancetotheMusicofTime
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18 Jul 2024
~I was far from understanding that the capacity of men interested in power is not necessarily expressed in the brilliance of their conversation.~
#ADancetotheMusicofTime
#AnthonyPowell24
A somewhat timely reflection...
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15 Jun 2024
~Human relationships flourish and decay, quickly and silently, so that those concerned hardly know how brittle, or inflexible, the ties that bind them have become.~
#anthonypowelltogether
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19 Apr 2024
Pia's story is breathtaking. For anyone who has ever loved and lost soulmates, 'Jesuit Dog' will stay in our hearts for a long, long time.
@ReemK10
18 Apr 2024
A piece about our sweet dog, Ella, when she - and Malcolm - were alive and in action. Thanks to @kimchinquee elm-leaves-journal.com/archi…
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mairead murphy📚 retweeted
17 Apr 2024
The floors of bus stations are the same all over the country, always covered with butts and spit and they give a feeling of sadness that only bus stations have.
#Kerouac24 #OnTheRoad
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mairead murphy📚 retweeted
15 Apr 2024
#Nabokov24 #SpeakMemory Last day of the group read!
"...mechanically minded idiots are tinkering and tampering with forces of nature that mild mathematicians to their own secret surprise, appear to have foreshadowed."
Sounds eerily familiar with #ClimateChange
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mairead murphy📚 retweeted
14 Apr 2024
A colored spiral in a small ball of glass, this is how I see my own life.
#Nabokov24 📚🐦 #SpeakMemory
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mairead murphy📚 retweeted
13 Apr 2024
Not once in my three years of Cam- repeat; not once- did I visit the University Library, or even bother to locate it ( I know its new place now), or find out if there existed a college library where books might be borrowed for reading in one's digs.
#Nabokov24 📚🐦 #SpeakMemory
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mairead murphy📚 retweeted
12 Apr 2024
What it would be actually to see again my former surroundings, I can hardly imagine. Sometimes I fancy myself revisiting them with a false passport, under an assumed name. It could be done.
#Nabokov24 📚🐦 #SpeakMemory
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mairead murphy📚 retweeted
12 Apr 2024
- my last glimpse of Tamara as she turned on the steps to look back at me before descending into the jasmin- scented, cricket- mad dusk of a small station; but today no alien marginalia can dim the purity of the pain.
#Nabokov24 📚🐦 #SpeakMemory
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mairead murphy📚 retweeted
9 Apr 2024
And then it happened: my heart welled in me ...and I had no handkerchief, and ten years were to pass before a certain night in 1922 when my father shielded the lecturer... from the bullets of two Russian fascists.. was fatally shot
#Nabokov24 📚🐦 #SpeakMemory
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mairead murphy📚 retweeted
9 Apr 2024
- his favorite Russian poets were Pushkin. Tyutchev, and Fet, he published a fine essay on the latter, was an authority on Dickens, and besides Flaubert, prized Stendhal, Balzac and Zola, three detestable mediocrities from my point of view.
#Nabokov24 📚🐦 #SpeakMemory
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mairead murphy📚 retweeted
8 Apr 2024
I recall with joy: kolokoliteyshchiki perekolotili vïkarabkavshihsya vïhuholey, " the church- bell casters slaughtered the demand that had scrambled out."
You know I've been thinking a lot about those Muscovite muskrats: why were they said to have scrambled out?
#Nabokov24📚🐦
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mairead murphy📚 retweeted
7 Apr 2024
... I felt myself plunged abruptly into a radiant and mobile medium that was none other than the pure element of time.
#Nabokov24 #SpeakMemory #VladimirNabokov
This line is pure poetry.
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mairead murphy📚 retweeted
7 Apr 2024
Among the anomalies of a memory, whose possessor and victim should never have tried to become an autobiographer, the worst is the inclination to equate in retrospect my age with that of the century.
#BookTwitter #Nabokov24 #SpeakMemory
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