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“I was not made for the great light that devours,
a dim lamp was all I had been given,
and patience without end,
to shine it on the empty shadows.”

― Samuel Beckett
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Annie Spratt
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'The path of witchcraft has brought me so much joy.' We explored LA's weirdest and most wonderful book store with goth-doom queen and practising witch, Chelsea Wolfe loudersound.com/features/chels…

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Neanderthals organised their living space just like humans in a structured way, study finds independent.co.uk/news/science/n…

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Blue Lights’ Sian Brooke ‘I can say that I've honestly fallen in love with Belfast, and Northern Ireland… that special unique humour’ belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/…

Remembering Seamus Heaney on what would have been his 85th birthday.

“Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.”

‘History says, don’t hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.’

Poet, playwright and translator Seamus Heaney was born #OnThisDay in 1939.

‘He experimented with infinity.’

Returning to this section of Lightenings from Seeing Things (1991) where a young Thomas Hardy lies down ‘among the dainty shins’ of sheep on what would have been Seamus Heaney’s 85th birthday.

SCAFFOLDING
—Seamus Heaney
(born on this day in 1939)

It’s funny, that line between fictionalised drama and real life. I mean, policing in Northern Ireland continues to be arduous for officers while remaining contentious, yet #BlueLights is ever popular as it focuses more on characterisation rather than any sociopolitical analysis.

The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him.

-Baudelaire

Having arrived from always, you will go everywhere.

-Rimbaud

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Seamus Heaney was born #OTD in 1939. To mark what would have been his 85th, we pass on some of the nice messages visitors to the exhibition have left for Seamus.
Just as Seamus always remembered those who had gone before him, so shall we remember Seamus.

#KateBush

Australia news live: at least four believed to have died after multiple stabbings in Sydney shopping centre theguardian.com/australia-news…

I’m delighted that a new edition of “Bandit Country” will hit the streets next Thursday. Hard to believe it was written 25 years ago. The dead can’t sue, so this edition names a few more names…