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"Yes, mon ami, there is nothing more amazing than the extraordinary sanity of the insane! Unless it is the extraordinary eccentricity of the sane!"~Hercule Poirot Here for #DrWho #AgathaChristie #JaneAusten & #Cats of course Avi/banner:The Sheep Detectives
"I have done a thousand dreadful things As willingly as one would kill a fly, And nothing grieves me heartily indeed But that I cannot do ten thousand more." Titus Andronicus Act 5, Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Greek & Roman Plays
"Like madness is the glory of this life." Timon of Athens Act 1, Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Greek & Roman Plays
"When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time." -Kitchen Banana Yoshimoto #BookWormSat
The spirit of Amelia Earhart is said to haunt Hangar Number One at the Purdue University Airport in West Lafayette, IN. Unusual sights and sounds have been reported by visitors and personnel. She was a visiting faculty advisor at Purdue, which helped fund her final, ill-fated flight. #PhantomsFriday
"Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits." All's Well That Ends Well Act 2, Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Hope & Disappointment
"Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society." -Sketches and Travels in London William Makepeace Thackeray #BookWormSat
"Who was the blundering idiot who said that 'fine words butter no parsnips?' Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce." -Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray #BookWormSat
On July 4, 2026 a blanket of heavy fog rolled into Wrigley Field from Lake Michigan during the Chicago Cubs vs. St. Louis Cardinals game. The fog obscured the whole stadium and got so bad that players told the umpires they couldn't see the ball, resulting in a 15-minute weather delay. #WyrdWednesday
"Nor tripped neither, you base football player?" King Lear Act 1, Scene 4 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Sports
“It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.” -The Winter of Our Discontent John Steinbeck #BookWormSat
"She was cutting down the old year’s chrysanthemum stalks with a pair of short and powerful scissors....her work with the scissors was over-eager, over-powerful. The chrysanthemum stems seemed too small and easy for her energy." -The Chrysanthemums John Steinbeck #BookWormSat
"The game's afoot: Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’" Henry V Act 3, Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #ForTheLoveOfShakespeare Theme: The Hollow Crown Plays
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead!" Henry V Act 3, Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday #ForTheLoveOfShakespeare Theme: The Hollow Crown Plays
"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here." -Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll #BookWormSat
"To bear my lady’s train, lest the base earth Should from her vesture chance to steal a kiss And, of so great a favour growing proud, Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower And make rough winter everlastingly." The Two Gentlemen of Verona Act 2, Scene 4 #ShakespeareSunday Theme free
"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." -The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald #BookWormSat
“[Aside] Too hot, too hot!” -The Winter’s Tale (A1, S2) #Shakespeare #Poirot #heatwave
"I am thy father's spirit, Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And for the day confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purg'd away." Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Fathers
"Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm; For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well." -The Knapsack Maria Edgeworth #BookWormSat
"They that have the voice of lions and the act of hares, are they not monsters?" Troilus and Cressida Act 3, Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Mythical Beasts
"Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds, of rainbow and granite, and stuffed them into a case, often of the most incongruous... a perfect rag-bag of odds and ends... stitched together by a single thread." -Orlando Virginia Woolf #BookWormSat
“I see a woman may be made a fool If she had not a spirit to resist.” The Taming of the Shrew Act 3, Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday #JaneAusten Theme: Formidable & Fantastic Women
"Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak." As You Like It Act 3, Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday #AgathaChristie Theme: Formidable & Fantastic Women
"From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world." Love's Labour's Lost Act 4, Scene 3 #ShakespeareSunday #DoctorWho Theme: Formidable & Fantastic Women
‘This is idle talk,’ said Gandalf. ‘Needless is Théoden’s demand, but it is useless to refuse. A king will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.’ -The Two Towers J.R.R. Tolkien #BookWormSat
"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous." -Julius Caesar (A1, S2) "Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!" -Julius Caesar (A3, S1) #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Villains
