"On the quietest day there was a murmur in the forest, as though the trees were gently crying themselves to sleep, moaning a muted lullaby which turned the nights into a time of ceaseless whispering." Thérèse Desqueyroux François Mauriac (Gerard Hopkins, tr.) #BookWormSat

@martian-observer.art @pombalstoat.bsky.social @callie99.bsky.social @lillieg.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #1011 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦😌

@pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @callie99.bsky.social @lillieg.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #1010 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

@pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @callie99.bsky.social Watch your step, guys! Connections Puzzle #1009 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦

"On the sunny lawn it had not touched her, but now, with the fall of night, she was aware of it, as shadow called to shadow and the kingdom of darkness gathered power. Like a great whispering gallery, the whole house listened." The Decoy Algernon Blackwood #BookWormSat

@callie99.bsky.social Have you taken #glucosamine and had vivid dreams? Like sitting in a bathtub full of blood vivid? I stopped taking it after a month because my knees were no better. My dreams are now back to normal.😌

"Master said God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way..." Black Beauty Anna Sewell #BookWormSat

@pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @callie99.bsky.social @lillieg.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #998 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪🤦

Fear not, O players! @martian-observer.art @pombalstoat.bsky.social @callie99.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #997 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

"...if I wanted to study I would leap at my master's library with my eyes closed, then tug out the book to which I was clinging and peruse it, whatever its contents." The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr E. T. A. Hoffmann #BookWormSat (mischievous rogues)

Raspberry noises😮‍💨 @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @callie99.bsky.social anybody else Connections Puzzle #991 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

@callie99.bsky.social Are you in New England? How's the blizzard up there? So far 15 inches here. It's blowing around, so hard to be sure.

"In Brueghel's Icarus: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the plowman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure..." Musée des Beaux Arts W. H. Auden #BookWormSat

@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @lillieg.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #983 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩

"Let bygones be bygones: Don't call me false, who owed not to be true; I'd rather answer 'No' to fifty Johns Than answer 'Yes' to you." "No, Thank You, John" Christina Rossetti #BookWormSat for Valentine's Day

@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @lillieg.bsky.social @mrlepus.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #979 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦😲

@pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @callie99.bsky.social @lillieg.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #974 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

"If she favors you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces-- and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper-- love her, love her, love her!" Great Expectations Charles Dickens #BookWormSat

Haha! @pombalstoat.bsky.social @callie99.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @emoneconomist.bsky.social Phrazle 163: 2/6 🟪🟪⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟪 ⬜⬜⬜ 🟪🟨⬜🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @emoneconomist.bsky.social @martian-observer.art Phrazle 153: 2/6 🟪⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟪⬜⬜🟪 ⬜🟨🟨🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

I don't know if anyone does kakuro, but I have to whine. Where does one go after Black Belt Kakuro? Mensa K. is on par with Absolutely Nasty 2, but Absolutely Nasty 3 is 🤯. Is Black Belt Second degree more manageable? Thank you for your patience.

"You rogue, you trickster, you crafty-minded cheat, I can well believe you broke into a good many ...houses last night and left more than one man with only the floor to sit on..." (Apollo to the child Hermes) The Homeric Hymns (tr. by Jules Cashford) #BookWormSat

@callie99.bsky.social Have you been getting your mail delivered since the storm? None of my bills have shown up. No mail at all. (what am I complaining about?🙃)

Fools rush in. No one seems to have done this. @callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art @lillieg.bsky.social Connections Puzzle #961 🟪🟦🟨🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟩🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩😫

Somebody did this one. Can't find it on notifications. @martian-observer.art @pombalstoat.bsky.social @emoneconomist.bsky.social @callie99.bsky.social Phrazle 140: 2/6 ⬜🟨🟪 🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art Did anyone do Sunday's Connections? (it wasn't fun) Connections Puzzle #959 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦(eeny, meenie, etc.🙄)

"It was Lilith the wife of Adam: (Sing Eden Bower!) Not a drop of her blood was human, But she was made like a soft sweet woman. Lilith stood on the skirts of Eden; (Alas the hour!) She was the first that thence was driven..." Eden Bower Dante Gabriel Rossetti #BookWormSat

@martian-observer.art @callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @emoneconomist.bsky.social Phrazle 127: 2/6 🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟨 🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

"It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him... Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same." Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte #BookWormSat

@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social Phrazle 111: 2/6 🟨🟪🟪🟨 ⬜🟩 🟩🟩 ⬜🟨🟪⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

"Only those who know longing Know what sorrows me! Alone and separated From all joy..." Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, a poem by Goethe in Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, set to music by Tchaikowsky, (among others) Here sung by Frank Sinatra. #BookWormSat www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfCd...

@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social Phrazle 99: 2/6 🟨⬜🟪🟨⬜ 🟩🟪 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

Is the split screen format better or worse than the usual? I get easily distracted. #ColumboTV (this posting into the void is getting on my nerves)

"A raven swooped down from its perch in the rafters and dived at the wizard, talons open... It didn't make it...The luggage leapt from its bed of splinters, gaped briefly in midair, and snapped shut." The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett #BookWormSat (fantasy)

@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art Phrazle 93: 2/6 🟨🟨⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨🟨🟨🟪🟪⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art Phrazle 91: 2/6 ⬜🟪 🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social Phrazle 83: 2/6 🟨🟪⬜⬜🟪⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟪 ⬜⬜⬜🟪 ⬜🟪⬜🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

Can't say what came out of my mouth when I saw this. @callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art Phrazle 81: 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

"The twilight of an evening. Big flakes of wet snow are whirling lazily about the street lamps, and lying in a thin soft layer on roofs, horses' backs, shoulders, caps. Iona Potapov, sledge driver, is all white like a ghost." Misery Anton Chekhov #BookWormSat

@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social Phrazle 77: 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

I just wanted to show I redeemed myself with the afternoon delight, in case I screw up the midnight madness. Phrazle 76: 2/6 ⬜🟪 ⬜🟪🟨⬜ ⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

Bit of coal in my sock. @callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social Phrazle 75: 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟪🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art Phrazle 69: 2/6 🟪🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟪🟪 🟪⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩 🟪⬜🟩🟩 🟨🟪⬜🟪⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social @martian-observer.art Phrazle 67: 2/6 ⬜🟪⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟪🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

If I ace it, I place it! @callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social Phrazle 66: 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

"...a look at the goat's beard, at the small horns sticking out of its head...would have sufficed to make anyone guess that it was...the Devil in person, to whom only one night more was left for tempting good men to sin." The Night Before Christmas Nikolai Gogol #BookWormSat

@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social Phrazle 63: 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟪 ⬜🟪🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

@callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social Phrazle 55: 2/6 ⬜🟪⬜🟨 🟪⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟪🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

Just put me out of my misery. @callie99.bsky.social @pombalstoat.bsky.social Phrazle 53: 3/6 🟪🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle

"I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror... and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying." The First Elegy of the Duino Elegies Rainer Maria Rilke (tr. S. Mitchell) #BookWormSat