EDGAR Know, my name is lost; By treason's tooth bare-gnawn, and canker-bit: Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.  #KingLear_2025 V,3,121-124 Robert Colquhoun Edgar in Battle Dress (Costume Design for 'King Lear') (1953) National Galleries Scotland

V, 3. For me the most poignant speech so far. When you just want the bad stuff to go away. Especially the bad you’ve caused yourself. #kinglear_2025

#SundaySentence "Others lead a vagabond and precarious existence in the corners of newspapers; or have changed their names and run away to seek their fortunes beyond the sea." - Longfellow (on the life of his earlier poems)

“In its gusts it bears a broth of little beasts—birds, beetles, spiders tethered to their skeins of silk, seeds in forms of puffs and parachutes.” Daniel Mason 📖 North Woods, page 207. #SundaySentence

As someone who spent a chunk of the 90s living off the kindness of venue owners & volunteers, this line from the late, great Todd Snider (quoted in NYT obit) put a huge smile on my face. My #sundaysentence this week: "The difference between a free spirit & a freeloader is three chords on a guitar."

Mr. Jaggers’s room was lighted by a skylight only, and was a most dismal place; the skylight, eccentrically patched like a broken head, and the distorted adjoining houses looking as if they had twisted themselves to peep down at me through it. #SundaySentence Dickens Great Expectations

Nyhavn #hashtag #bluesky #photography #skyblue #denmark #danish #copenhagen #tivoligardens #thelittlemermaid #royalpalace #stroget #skybluetravel #wanderlust #ferryride #colourfultown

Today's Sawkill, just before sunset

Marbled Godwits feeding in shallow water at Albany Mudflats, Albany, California. #birds #nature #eastcoastkin

Edgar: “What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure Their going hence even as their coming hither, Ripeness is all. Come on.” Gloucester: “And that's true too.” #KingLear_2025 Illustration by Arthur Rackham

EDGAR Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither: Ripeness is all.  #KingLear_2025 V,2,9-11

Louis Michel Eilshemius (American, 1864-1941) "Moon over River "

Irgendwo dazwischen ein leises Lied.

Stormy sea today. Torredembarra. Catalonia #photography

LEAR And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; #KingLear_2025 Act IV s7 (62-65)

LEAR You do me wrong to take me out o'th' grave; Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead. #KingLear_2025 IV,7,45-48 The Meeting of Lear and Cordelia (1784) by Benjamin West The Huntington

Grab your copy of Heart of Darkness and read with us! We begin next Monday, Nov 17. Ch. I: Nov 17–22 Ch. II: Nov 24–29 Ch. III: Dec 1–6 Slow reading, shared journey, join in. #JosephConrad

Winter ride. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

“There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.” Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick," published on this day in 1851

Daytime moon through nearly bare branches.

IV, 6. Gloster: “I see it feelingly.” No truer words in Shakesp. #kinglear_2025

The usurer hangs the cozener. #KingLear_2025 IV,6,160 Moritz Retzsch Edgar führt den blinden Grafen von Gloucester nach Dover - Illustration zu „König Lear“ IV. Akt, Szene 6 um 1885 Hamburger Kunsthalle

LEAR When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools. #KingLear_2025 Act IV s6 (my version) (176-177)

Wie bestellt

My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears. Jack Kerouac

Atravesando o tempo. A perspectiva da ollada. Val do Umia #AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #Photography #nature #Naturephotography #natureza #naturaleza #Landscape #river #Wildlife #Leaves #Bridge #Landscapephography #Autumn #Rural #Countryside #Galicia #Galiza

We don’t have northern lights but we have this tonight

the stables at gloaming

Whenever I watched the vessels standing out to sea with their white sails spread, I somehow thought of Miss Havisham and Estella; whenever the light struck aslant, afar off, upon a cloud or sail or green hill-side or water-line, it was just the same. Dickens Great Expectations C15

passing through woods

Edgar: “Come on, sir, here's the place; stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers sampire, dreadful trade!” #KingLear_2025 Samphire plant —

GLOUCESTER Alack, I have no eyes. Is wretchedness deprived that benefit To end itself by death? ‘Twas yet some comfort When misery could beguile the tyrant’s rage And frustrate his proud will. #KingLear_2025 Act IV s6(my version) (60-64)

EDGAR How fearful And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wind the midway air … The fishermen that walk upon the beach Appear like mice, and yond tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her cock … The murmuring surge, That on th' unnumber'd idle pebble chafes, 1+

The wind writes two stories..

"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies." Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Higher up the mountain, above town, the berries are all that are left on the Mountain Ash trees. #red #nelsonbc #canada #november

. . . they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug. Dickens Great Expectations C11

11th November is the feast of St Martin who is here depicted sharing his cloak with a beggar. BL Stowe MS 17; 'The Maastricht Hours'; 14th century; f.98r

Veterans Day🌾 "If America is not for freedom, I do not see what it is for." – Walt Whitman, c. 1890 From my wife's walk today:

CORDELIA. All blest secrets, All you unpublished virtues of the earth, Spring with my tears! Be aidant and remediate In the good man's distress! Seek, seek for him, Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life That wants the means to lead it. Act IV s3 #KingLear_2025 #UnpublishedVirtues #Cordelia

#AmericanReadalong „But in gazing at such scenes, it is all in all what mood you are in; if in the Dantean, the devils will occur to you; if in that of Isaiah, the archangels.“ Moby-Dick C86 Satan is trapped in the frozen central zone in the Ninth Circle of Hell. Illustration by Gustave Doré.

November 10th

Miss Havisham’s face could not smile. It had dropped into a watchful and brooding expression—most likely when all the things about her had become transfixed—and it looked as if nothing could ever lift it up again. Dickens / Great Expectations C8

Golden late afternoon sky yesterday over Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California. #sunset #sky #nature #eastcoastkin

I could not but think that I was building myself up in an unerring knowledge of Liverpool; especially as I had familiarized myself with the map, and could turn sharp corners on it, with marvelous confidence and celerity. Redburn. His First Voyage/Chapter XXXI Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!

“Yet is there hope. Time and tide flow wide.” — Moby-Dick, 38. Dusk #MelvilleMonday 🐳

#MelvilleMonday 🕯️ Veterans Day(-1 ) "A DREADFUL glory lights an earnest end; In jubilee the patriot ghosts ascend..." - Herman Melville, c. 1862