The view from the Pfänder, a mountain located near Bregenz, offers a beautiful sight of Lake Constance. ♥️ Am I not incredibly lucky to live one of the most stunning lakes in Europe? 😊

#RachelCuskTogether Outline (4) „He was expecting his eleventh child, which wasn't as bad as it sounded when you considered that he and his wife had once adopted quadruplets from Guatemala.“

Katherine I am the most unhappy woman living. Alas, poor wenches, where now are your fortunes? Shipwracked upon a kingdom, where no pity, No friends, no hope; no kindred weep for me; Almost no grave allowed me! #HenryVIII_2025 Act III s1 (146-150)

Also: Matt. 6:28-33 K. James ver. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not....That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven... [so] clothe you...

KATHERINE like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourish'd, I'll hang my head and perish.  William Shakespeare #HenryVIII_2025 III,1,150-153 1+ EUGÈNE FRANÇOIS MARIE JOSEPH DEVÉRIA Paris 1808 - PAU 1865 CARDINAL WOLSEY AND KATHERINE OF ARAGON 1858

"Orpheus with his Lute" has been arranged and continues to be arranged by many composers including Schumann, Andrew Sullivan (of Gilbert &), and Ralph Vaughan Williams. This is my favorite.I highly recommend listening to other versions. All very different. #henryviii_2025 youtu.be/hVwZCVZ8iks?...

#AmericanReadalong  „I have personally known three instances where a whale, after receiving a harpoon, has effected a complete escape; and, after an interval (in one instance of three years), has been again struck by the same hand, and slain…“ Herman Melville Moby-Dick 45 Ill. by Barry Moser

My second home office. Some spaces are meant for work, others for escape. But sometimes, they are one and the same.

#HenryVIII_2025 Week 3 begins 10/1- "King James VI and I, his family & courtiers participated actively in masques...Shakespeare & his fellows were frequently called upon to play at court. All these concerns are woven into the fabric of this play, making it a distinctively Jacobean drama." RSC intro

„Unglück ist kein Makel, und Glück ist kein Verdienst." Gute Nacht mit Herman Melville 

#MelvilleMonday This mini-series, quite wonderful.

#MelvilleMonday 📖✨ "...the books that prove most agreeable, grateful, and companionable, are those we pick up by chance here and there; those which seem put into our hands by Providence; those which pretend to little, but abound in much." - White-Jacket (XLI, A Man-of-War Library)

#HenryVIII_2025 III,1,3-8 SONG Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing: To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung, as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring.  OVID METAMORPHOSES BOOK 10, 143-154 TRANSLATED BY BROOKES MORE

#AmericanReadalong „Had you followed Captain Ahab down into his cabin you would have seen him go to a locker in the transom, and bringing out a large wrinkled roll of yellowish sea charts, spread them before him on his screwed-down table …“ Herman Melville Moby-Dick

#NowReading #AlmostOctober

The will, that never can relent— The aim, survivor of the bafflement, Make this memorial due. Herman Melville #MelvilleMonday

Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends! Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳 “Crowding all sail, we braced the yards square; and, the breeze freshing, bowled straight away from the land.” Omoo (last page)

“As heart rings to heart those voices rang, and for a moment, in the bright hush of the morning, the two stood silently but ardently eying each other, beholding mutual reflections of a boundless admiration and love.” Pierre chapter I, Herman Melville #melvillemonday #naturesky #booksky #nature 🌙 ✨

Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳  Moby-Dick Chapter 43. Hark! „There again—there it is!—it sounds like two or three sleepers turning over, now!"  #AmericanReadalong Gevorg Bashinjaghian Meerlandschaft mit Schiff im Mondlicht Sotheby‘s

KING Go thy ways Kate; … The queen of earthly queens: she's noble born, And like her true nobility she has Carried herself towards me.  #HenryVIII_2025 II,4,134-144 📷 Ellen Terry as Queen Katherine of Arragon in Shakespeare's Henry VIII 1890 - 1900 Smallhythe Place, National Trust

Gute Nacht 😴

She put her head back and looked up at the sky; the clouds were gigantic, glazed on their underbellies with radiant pink, like clouds in a painting of a Bible story. (271) Donna Tartt / The Little Friend #SundaySentence

"And wear a golden sorrow." -Anne Boleyn Act II s3 #HenryVIII_2025

KATHERINE I have been to you a true and humble wife, At all times to your will conformable, Ever in fear to kindle your dislike, Yea, subject to your countenance, glad or sorry As I saw it inclin'd. #HenryVIII_2025 II,4,25-29

Herman Melville August 1, 1819-September 28, 1891  Moby-Dick 42 #AmericanReadalong “Bethink thee of the albatross, whence come those clouds of spiritual wonderment and pale dread, in which that white phantom sails in all imaginations? Not Coleridge first threw that spell; 1+

#Sunday Robert Burton Die Anatomie der Melancholie Vorrede „Was ist ein Marktplatz? Ein Ort, sagt Anacharsis, wo einer den andern übers Ohr haut, eine Falle. Nun gut, und die Welt selbst? Ein Riesendurcheinander, ein Wirrwarr von Sitten, launisch wie die Luft, domicilium insanorum … 1+

Chamberlain Beauty and honour are in her so mingled That they have caught the King. And who knows yet But from this lady may proceed a gem To lighten all this isle? #HenryVIII_2025 Act II s3 (76-79) Shakespeare flatters his Queen in these lines.

Humpback whales are a conservation success story. But as their numbers thrive, their search for food is increasingly pushing them into dangerous shipping lanes, creating a new risk. Story by Ocean Reporting Network Fellow @jennthornhillverma.bsky.social for @theguardian.com. bit.ly/42LFppj

But the “doctrine” of a thinker is that which, within what is said, remains unsaid, that to which we are exposed so that we might expend ourselves on it. - Plato's Doctrine of Truth

Happy to have this now in my library: The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence published by Manchester University Press.

Today is Bloomsday. I have multiple editions of Ulysses in my home library. This Penguin printing has been with me since my final year of high school. A cherished companion through many readings of Joyce's novel.

Happy weekend everyone. Enjoy my beautiful and relaxing video.....from today.....💙

ANNE much better She ne'er had known pomp; though 't be temporal, Yet if that quarrel, fortune, do divorce It from the bearer, tis a sufferance panging As soul and body's severing. #HenryVIII_2025 II,3,12-16 Detail from Anne Boleyn's Music Book showing the name inscription.

#AmericanReadalong  „A wild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine.“ Herman Melville Moby-Dick Chapter 41 Netzfund

#rachelcusktogether starts on OCTOBER 1, WEDNESDAY! i'll post the reading schedule in the next day or two! fiction, autofiction, memoir? what is the outline trilogy? www.vogue.com/article/rach...

Chamberlain . . . ‘Tis most true These news are everywhere, every tongue speaks ‘em, And every true heart weeps for’t. #HenryVIII_2025 Act II s2 (35-37)

KING The most convenient place that I can think of For such receipt of learning is Black-Friars: There ye shall meet about this weighty business. My Wolsey, see it furnish'd #HenryVIII_2025 II,2,136-139 King Henry VIlI and Cardinal Wolsey painting by John Gilbert 1817-1897 Guildhall Art Gallery

#AmericanReadalong  Herman Melville Moby-Dick Chapter 40. Midnight, Forecastle. TASHTEGO [Quietly smoking] „That's a white man; he calls that fun: humph! I save my sweat.“ Evelyn Louise Kendall Tashtego, Daggoo And Queequeg Courtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

BUCKINGHAM When I came hither I was Lord High Constable And Duke of Buckingham: now poor Edward Bohun; Yet I am richer than my base accusers, That never knew what truth meant #HenryVIII_2025 II,1,102-105 Netzfund

#AmericanReadalong  “We'll drink to-night with hearts as light, To love, as gay and fleeting As bubbles that swim, on the beaker's brim, And break on the lips while meeting.“  Herman Melville Moby-Dick Chapter 39. FIRST NIGHT-WATCH Illustration: JERRY DILLINGHAM

First Gentleman All these accused him strongly, which he fain Would have flung from him, but indeed he could not. And so his peers upon this evidence Have found him guilty of high treason. Much He spoke, and learnedly, for life, but all Was either pitied in him or forgotten. #HenryVIII_2025 II s1

I finally made it to Olaus Magnus's Carta Marina. The map was printed in Rome in 1539 while Olaus Magnus, the Archbishop of Uppsala, was in his exile there. 1/10