I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

~Kafka

Greetings Bibliophiles✨

This #BookologyThursday , we invite you to join us with the theme:

✨Unusual Narrators & Protagonists✨

~in literature, art and folklore.🍃

Good night, dear Bibliophiles✨

art by Schinako Moriyama

Bon dia 💜

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

~W.B. Yeats
art by Jorge Mascarenhas
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Hello everybody 🌿Happy #OwlishMonday !

How I imagined myself as a child💛

Penelope was proud of her family motto: Walk softly and carry a big fork.

art by Bill Mayers
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The Tarantella, a 15th century Italian dance, was said to be a remedy for tarantism (an uncontrollable urge to dance) caused by the bite of a tarantula or wolf spider.🕷

art by Pierrot Fabris (1776)
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Dance of the Dandelion
by Salvador Dalì (1944)

'...[A]rms interlocked as though they were dancing in a circle around the interior of the tomb.'

'Tomb of The Dancers' by Tribe of The Peucetians

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The Grimm’s fairy tale, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, is the story of a dozen Royal sisters who sneak out of the locked castle each evening to dance the night away with twelve princes.

art by Lidia Postma

from The Elfin-Mount, one of the lesser known fairy tales by Hans C. Andersen.

art by Maria Louise Kirk (1860-1938)

'Woodland Creatures' by Valentina Kropivnitskaya

#valentinakropivnitskaya #painting #watercolor

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world.

You bring your history, and you read it on your own terms.

Angela Carter

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🎨 Erté
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How cats secretly celebrate April’s Full Pink Moon…

'The night is a sorceress.'
-L. M. Montgomery

🖼️Nona Limmen
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