AliceInTheSky
@theotheralice.bsky.social
Busy keeping head above water. Favourite means: books (warning: includes lots of poetry)/ music (mainly classical)/ arts/ yes, that annoying/ films / stuff
Clinging to the funny aspects of dystopia
Clinging to the funny aspects of dystopia
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Honor thy error as a hidden intention
September 21, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Honor thy error as a hidden intention
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Will be interesting to read. The Lowe-Porter translations have the virtues - and faults - of sounding a bit like Thomas Mann himself speaking English, trying to make himself satisfactorily understood - while perhaps not caring too much if he was understood - in an American drugstore between the wars
September 21, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Will be interesting to read. The Lowe-Porter translations have the virtues - and faults - of sounding a bit like Thomas Mann himself speaking English, trying to make himself satisfactorily understood - while perhaps not caring too much if he was understood - in an American drugstore between the wars
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Years ago, I read The Magic Mountain & saw it as a network of ironies about how art & societal seclusion dramatise the indeterminacy of being & time but also demonstrate, if pursued as mere disengagements, the risks of isolation.
Today I just want to follow Hans Castorp up the mountain & stay there
Today I just want to follow Hans Castorp up the mountain & stay there
September 21, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Years ago, I read The Magic Mountain & saw it as a network of ironies about how art & societal seclusion dramatise the indeterminacy of being & time but also demonstrate, if pursued as mere disengagements, the risks of isolation.
Today I just want to follow Hans Castorp up the mountain & stay there
Today I just want to follow Hans Castorp up the mountain & stay there
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"Inner emigration" is a great term for how some people cope with the hate around them. I learned it from the Ian Buruma's book "Stay Alive". He attributes it to Berlin novelist Frank Thiess, but truly anybody who tries to withstand a fury of filth can appreciate the honesty of the phrase.
#books
#books
September 21, 2026 at 10:29 AM
"Inner emigration" is a great term for how some people cope with the hate around them. I learned it from the Ian Buruma's book "Stay Alive". He attributes it to Berlin novelist Frank Thiess, but truly anybody who tries to withstand a fury of filth can appreciate the honesty of the phrase.
#books
#books
Not another one...
Yet another app?! (today my new scales asked me to install AN APP. What?!)
And no, I'm not Sophia Loren. She just does stony-faced- exasperated so much better than me.
Yet another app?! (today my new scales asked me to install AN APP. What?!)
And no, I'm not Sophia Loren. She just does stony-faced- exasperated so much better than me.
September 21, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Not another one...
Yet another app?! (today my new scales asked me to install AN APP. What?!)
And no, I'm not Sophia Loren. She just does stony-faced- exasperated so much better than me.
Yet another app?! (today my new scales asked me to install AN APP. What?!)
And no, I'm not Sophia Loren. She just does stony-faced- exasperated so much better than me.
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September 21, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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I want to write poems that want to conquer Russia during Winter
That Force
Adam Zagajewski
That force that hovers
in a kiss and in desire
lies also in poems
though it is hushed
That Force
Adam Zagajewski
That force that hovers
in a kiss and in desire
lies also in poems
though it is hushed
September 20, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I want to write poems that want to conquer Russia during Winter
That Force
Adam Zagajewski
That force that hovers
in a kiss and in desire
lies also in poems
though it is hushed
That Force
Adam Zagajewski
That force that hovers
in a kiss and in desire
lies also in poems
though it is hushed
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My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
September 20, 2026 at 3:31 PM
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
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In The City of Night
In the City of Night by John Gould Fletcher - Poems | Academy of American Poets poets.org/poem/city-ni...
In the City of Night by John Gould Fletcher - Poems | Academy of American Poets poets.org/poem/city-ni...
In the City of Night
(To the Memory of Edgar Allan Poe) City of night, Wrap me in your folds of shadow. City of twilight, City that projects into the west, City whose columns rest upon the sunset, city of square, threaten...
poets.org
September 20, 2026 at 8:33 AM
In The City of Night
In the City of Night by John Gould Fletcher - Poems | Academy of American Poets poets.org/poem/city-ni...
In the City of Night by John Gould Fletcher - Poems | Academy of American Poets poets.org/poem/city-ni...
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Just Once
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
September 20, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Just Once
Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
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Self Portrait
Adam Zagajewski
One of my favourites
Self-Portrait by Adam Zagajewski - Poems | Academy of American Poets share.google/H9E9WYhFk7JT...
Adam Zagajewski
One of my favourites
Self-Portrait by Adam Zagajewski - Poems | Academy of American Poets share.google/H9E9WYhFk7JT...
Self-Portrait
Between the computer, a pencil, and a typewriter
share.google
September 20, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Self Portrait
Adam Zagajewski
One of my favourites
Self-Portrait by Adam Zagajewski - Poems | Academy of American Poets share.google/H9E9WYhFk7JT...
Adam Zagajewski
One of my favourites
Self-Portrait by Adam Zagajewski - Poems | Academy of American Poets share.google/H9E9WYhFk7JT...
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Baselitz in Salzburg
September 19, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Baselitz in Salzburg
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www.ilpost.it/2026/09/04/v...
Interesting article about Latronico’s Perfection and its relatively minor success in Italy. Makes the point that a book that has protagonists obsessed with nice things and social media is now, ironically, a recognisable, fashionable thing people flash on social media.
Interesting article about Latronico’s Perfection and its relatively minor success in Italy. Makes the point that a book that has protagonists obsessed with nice things and social media is now, ironically, a recognisable, fashionable thing people flash on social media.
Un caso editoriale italiano, ma solo all'estero
"Le perfezioni" di Vincenzo Latronico ha venduto poco in Italia, ma "Perfection" è stato uno dei libri del 2025 nel mercato anglosassone
www.ilpost.it
September 19, 2026 at 10:15 AM
www.ilpost.it/2026/09/04/v...
Interesting article about Latronico’s Perfection and its relatively minor success in Italy. Makes the point that a book that has protagonists obsessed with nice things and social media is now, ironically, a recognisable, fashionable thing people flash on social media.
Interesting article about Latronico’s Perfection and its relatively minor success in Italy. Makes the point that a book that has protagonists obsessed with nice things and social media is now, ironically, a recognisable, fashionable thing people flash on social media.
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#BookWormSat is celebrating #RenaissanceLiterature today. Here are some lovely pages from a recent afternoon viewing celestial renaissance manuscripts in La Capitolare di Verona - 1,509 years old & the oldest library in the world still in operation today ✨
Pages from Alessandro Piccolomini’s 1586 astronomical maps, which for the first time depicted the stars without their corresponding mythological figures, enabling the reader to easily identify
the constellations
the constellations
September 19, 2026 at 9:51 AM
#BookWormSat is celebrating #RenaissanceLiterature today. Here are some lovely pages from a recent afternoon viewing celestial renaissance manuscripts in La Capitolare di Verona - 1,509 years old & the oldest library in the world still in operation today ✨
...for although the figures are visible... (they) cannot be seen with the smoothness and colour of the right side."
So it's traduttore - traditore, according to Cervantes.
Well, Miguel, maybe true in 1615 but there have been developments, I'm glad to report. Although ...
:D
2/2 #BookWormSat
So it's traduttore - traditore, according to Cervantes.
Well, Miguel, maybe true in 1615 but there have been developments, I'm glad to report. Although ...
:D
2/2 #BookWormSat
September 19, 2026 at 10:07 AM
...for although the figures are visible... (they) cannot be seen with the smoothness and colour of the right side."
So it's traduttore - traditore, according to Cervantes.
Well, Miguel, maybe true in 1615 but there have been developments, I'm glad to report. Although ...
:D
2/2 #BookWormSat
So it's traduttore - traditore, according to Cervantes.
Well, Miguel, maybe true in 1615 but there have been developments, I'm glad to report. Although ...
:D
2/2 #BookWormSat
"Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side...
1/
📕 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Flemish tapestry, Workshop of U.& D. Leyniers
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
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📕 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Flemish tapestry, Workshop of U.& D. Leyniers
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
September 19, 2026 at 9:59 AM
"Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side...
1/
📕 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Flemish tapestry, Workshop of U.& D. Leyniers
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
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📕 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Flemish tapestry, Workshop of U.& D. Leyniers
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
"Until death it is all life."
📕 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Octavio Ocampo, Visions of Quixote
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
📕 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Octavio Ocampo, Visions of Quixote
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
September 19, 2026 at 9:39 AM
"Until death it is all life."
📕 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Octavio Ocampo, Visions of Quixote
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
📕 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Octavio Ocampo, Visions of Quixote
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
"Now look, your grace" said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't... (windmills)..."
"Obviously," replied Don Quixote, you don't know much about adventures."
📕Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Pablo Picasso, Don Quixote
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
"Obviously," replied Don Quixote, you don't know much about adventures."
📕Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Pablo Picasso, Don Quixote
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
September 19, 2026 at 9:16 AM
"Now look, your grace" said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't... (windmills)..."
"Obviously," replied Don Quixote, you don't know much about adventures."
📕Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Pablo Picasso, Don Quixote
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
"Obviously," replied Don Quixote, you don't know much about adventures."
📕Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Pablo Picasso, Don Quixote
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
"For neither good nor evil can last forever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand."
📕Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ H. Daumier, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
📕Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ H. Daumier, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
September 19, 2026 at 8:55 AM
"For neither good nor evil can last forever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand."
📕Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ H. Daumier, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
📕Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ H. Daumier, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams - this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness..."
📕Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Salvador Dalí, Don Quixote
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
📕Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Salvador Dalí, Don Quixote
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
September 19, 2026 at 8:47 AM
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams - this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness..."
📕Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Salvador Dalí, Don Quixote
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
📕Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
🖼️ Salvador Dalí, Don Quixote
#BookWormSat #RenaissanceLit
Rosalind Belben. A discovery.
If "We play to the mountains. There are things in the mountains that hear" makes sense to you, you should probably read her.
#music (among other things)
If "We play to the mountains. There are things in the mountains that hear" makes sense to you, you should probably read her.
#music (among other things)
Rosalind Belben reads from Is Beauty is Good: 'Air Ride'
YouTube video by AndOtherVideos
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September 18, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Rosalind Belben. A discovery.
If "We play to the mountains. There are things in the mountains that hear" makes sense to you, you should probably read her.
#music (among other things)
If "We play to the mountains. There are things in the mountains that hear" makes sense to you, you should probably read her.
#music (among other things)
Bear with me, if I were a dog I'd be a herding dog: I simply want everyone to stay together. It bothers me if anyone gets lost
September 18, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Bear with me, if I were a dog I'd be a herding dog: I simply want everyone to stay together. It bothers me if anyone gets lost
Alright, so now I am worried and would like to know: anybody who knows if @charlayn.eurosky.social is ok and simply doing other/more sensible stuff than flimsy social media? Charlayn, if you can hear me, knock three times maybe?
September 18, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Alright, so now I am worried and would like to know: anybody who knows if @charlayn.eurosky.social is ok and simply doing other/more sensible stuff than flimsy social media? Charlayn, if you can hear me, knock three times maybe?
Aimez-vous Brahms
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 83 (recording of the Century: Sviatoslav Richter)
YouTube video by Classical Music/ /Reference Recording
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September 17, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Aimez-vous Brahms
There are takers, and there are givers. There's the distracted taker. The greedy taker. The entitled taker. The reluctant taker.
The generous giver. The calculating giver. The bartering giver. The overwhelming giver.
Who did I forget?
The generous giver. The calculating giver. The bartering giver. The overwhelming giver.
Who did I forget?
September 17, 2026 at 2:01 PM
There are takers, and there are givers. There's the distracted taker. The greedy taker. The entitled taker. The reluctant taker.
The generous giver. The calculating giver. The bartering giver. The overwhelming giver.
Who did I forget?
The generous giver. The calculating giver. The bartering giver. The overwhelming giver.
Who did I forget?