The Wandering Shop

Bevan Thomas"At last, hopelessly surveying myself all over, I was obliged to face the mortifying fact that I had been transformed not into a bird, but into a plain jackass." - Apuleius, "The Golden Ass" 🎨 H. J. Ford<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookWormSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mythology</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Folklore</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fiction</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Rome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rome</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Italy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Apuleius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apuleius</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GoldenAss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GoldenAss</a>

Bevan Thomas"It comes!" they sang. "Sleepers awake! It comes, it comes!" One dreadful glance over my shoulder I essayed - not long enough to see (or did I see?) the rim of the sunrise that shoots Time dead with golden arrows and puts to flight all phantasmal shapes. Screaming, I buried my face in the folds of my Teacher's robe. "The morning! The morning!" I cried. "I am caught by the morning and I am a ghost!"- C. S. Lewis, "The Great Divorce"<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookWormSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fiction</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fantasy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Theology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Theology</a>

Bevan ThomasIn Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass," Tweedledum and Tweedledee claim Alice is just a figment of the Red King's dream. "If that there King was to wake, ... you'd go out—bang!—just like a candle!" Alice cries as she desperately argues she's real, half-convinced she isn't. 🎨 John Tenniel<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookWormSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fiction</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fantasy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/JohnTenniel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JohnTenniel</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/LewisCarroll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LewisCarroll</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/AliceinWonderland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AliceinWonderland</a>

Bevan Thomas"Our voyager was familiar with the laws of gravity. He utilized them so well that, with the help of a ray of sunlight or some comet, he jumped from globe to globe like a bird vaulting from branch to branch, [and] spanned the Milky Way." - Voltaire, "Micromegas"<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookWormSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#France</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Enlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enlightenment</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Satire</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Voltaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Voltaire</a>

Bevan Thomas"The governor and his family are served by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual. By his skill in necromancy, he could call whom he pleases from the dead.... [The servants' countenances] made my flesh creep with a horror I cannot express." - Jonathan Swift, "Gulliver's Travels"<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookWormSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Book</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fantasy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Satire</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/JonathanSwift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JonathanSwift</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GulliversTravels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GulliversTravels</a>

Bevan Thomas"On a planet revolving around the star Sirius, there lived a young man [120,000 feet tall and] of great intelligence, whose acquaintance I had the honor of making during his recent visit to our little anthill. He was called Micromegas." - Voltaire, "Micromegas"<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookWormSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookChatWeekly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookChatWeekly</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#France</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Satire</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Voltaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Voltaire</a>

The Ghost MonkSort of for <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23BookWormSat" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a> but mainly for <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23caturday" target="_blank">#caturday</a> this gorgeous poster advertising holidays to <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Egypt" target="_blank">#Egypt</a> in the 1920s. <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23artdeco" target="_blank">#artdeco</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23posterart" target="_blank">#posterart</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23illustration" target="_blank">#illustration</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23cats" target="_blank">#cats</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23artsky" target="_blank">#artsky</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23catsky" target="_blank">#catsky</a>

Bevan Thomas"Real magic can never be made by offering up someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back. The true witches know that." - Peter S. Beagle, "The Last Unicorn" 🎨 Germán Hernández Amores<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookWormSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/PeterSBeagle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PeterSBeagle</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/LastUnicorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LastUnicorn</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Book</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/FantasyLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FantasyLiterature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/FantasyFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FantasyFiction</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fantasy</a>

Bevan Thomas"On Cader Peak there was a school for witches where the doctor's daughter, teaching the unholy cradle and the devil's pin, had seven country girls. On Cader Peak, half ruined in an enemy weather, the house with a story held the seven girls, the cellar echoing, and a cross reversed above the entrance to the inner rooms." - Dylan Thomas, "The School for Witches" 🎨 Matthew Austern<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookWormSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/DylanThomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DylanThomas</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wales</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Occult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Occult</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Witchcraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Witchcraft</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Horror</a>

Bevan Thomas"Oh Mole! The beauty of it! The merry bubble and joy, the thin, clear, happy call of the distant piping! Such music I never dreamed of, and the call in it is stronger even than the music is sweet! Row on, Mole, row! For the music and the call must be for us." - Kenneth Grahame, "The Wind in the Willows" 🎨 Troy Howell<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookWormSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Book</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ChildrensLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChildrensLiterature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/FantasyLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FantasyLiterature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/KennethGrahame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KennethGrahame</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/WindintheWillows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WindintheWillows</a>

Bevan Thomas"Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it’s hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets." - Robert Louis Stevenson, "Treasure Island" 🎨 Louis Rhead<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookWormSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ChildrensLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChildrensLiterature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Book</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/RobertLouisStevenson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RobertLouisStevenson</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TreasureIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TreasureIsland</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Pirate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pirate</a>

Bevan Thomas"In [Captain Hook's] dark nature there was a touch of the feminine, as in all the great pirates." - J. M. Barrie, "Peter Pan"Originally, J. M. Barrie toyed with the idea of Captain Hook in the "Peter Pan" play being played in drag by the same actress who played Mrs. Darling (the children's mother).<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookWormSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Book</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ChildrensLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChildrensLiterature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Theatre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Theatre</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Theater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Theater</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/JMBarrie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JMBarrie</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/PeterPan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PeterPan</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CaptainHook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CaptainHook</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Pirate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pirate</a>

Bevan Thomas"Frith [the sun] made all the animals and birds, but when he first made them, they were all the same. The sparrow and the kestrel were friends, and they both ate seeds and flies. And the fox and the rabbit were friends, and they both ate grass. And there was plenty of grass and plenty of flies, because the world was new, and Frith shone down bright and warm all day." - Richard Adams, "Watership Down"<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookWormSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Book</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fantasy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/RichardAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RichardAdams</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/WatershipDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WatershipDown</a>

Bevan ThomasThe genders were "originally three in number; there was man, woman, and the union of the two.... The man was the child of the sun, the woman of the earth, and the man-woman of the moon.... Terrible was their might and strength, and the thoughts of their hearts were great." - Plato, "The Symposium"<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookWormSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mythology</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Folklore</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Greece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Greece</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Plato</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Aristophanes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Aristophanes</a>

Bevan Thomas“Thou hast not trod with pilgrim foot the ground Where sleeps the canine martyr of distrust. Poor Gelert, famed in song, as brave a hound As ever guarded homestead, hut, or hall, Or leapt exulting at the hunter’s call; As ever grateful man consigned to dust.” - John Critchley Prince 🎨 Gourlay Steell<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookWormSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mythology</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Folklore</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wales</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Celtic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Celtic</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poetry</a>

P J Richards🌿🪶🌿"The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off." 📖The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett. <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23BookWormSat" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a>

Bevan Thomas"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." - Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy"<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookWormSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookChatWeekly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookChatWeekly</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/31DaysofHaunting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#31DaysofHaunting</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Book</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Comedy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciFi</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/DouglasAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DouglasAdams</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/HitchkersGuidetotheGalaxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HitchkersGuidetotheGalaxy</a>

Bevan Thomas"Mamma had scarcely turn'd her back, The thumb was in, alack! Alack! The door flew open, in he ran, The great, long, red-legg'd scissor-man." - Heinrich Hoffmann, "Little Suck-a-Thumb" 🎨 Heinrich HoffmannIn Hoffmann's nursery rhymes, children are cruelly punished for their bad habits.<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookWormSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookWormSat</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BookChatWeekly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookChatWeekly</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/31DaysofHaunting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#31DaysofHaunting</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Book</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/GermanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GermanLiterature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ChildrensLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChildrensLiterature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Germany</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/HeinrichHoffmann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HeinrichHoffmann</a>

The Keeper of the Bees'...lay down awhile among the foxgloves and the ferns, each flower, each emerald leaf, each soft-winged creature and fleck of summer rain will offer up its own deep song...' ✍️ Medicine Garden, Caroline Mellor <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23BookwormSat" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookwormSat</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Bloomscrolling" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bloomscrolling</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23flowers" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#flowers</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23nature" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23bees" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bees</a> 🌱🐝 📷me

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