David Reader 📚🐳
@ThepaleUsher
Native Californian. Constant reader, occasional writer, former teacher. Quotes are mostly from what I’m reading. #MelvilleMonday
Shadows of seabirds skim the waves Halcyon makes its nest at sea floats where nothing floats except seaweed hair of seamen’s goddess deep sea drowned And I too have seen it I too have heard it the voiceless keening the sea’s lips lapping Ferlinghetti A Far Rockaway #71
"Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that." Captain Ahab
“I started to read and write poetry as if it were the most important thing in the world.” (Bolaño, The Savage Detectives)
Took the seashore road and sat and watched the sea A bird became a butterfly and landed on my knee Who was the alien Whose land was it Whose sea? . . . Ferlinghetti A Far Rockaway of the Heart # 78
Dunes of Flanders... 🌤️ #NorthSeacoast #Placeswelove
“‘By my faith, lads, I had rather see a fine fat goose, turning on a spit. These porphyries and marbles are beautiful, I will not deny; but our Amiens cheesecakes are more to my taste.’” #Rabelais2025 4the Bk C11
#Rabelais2025 The Fourth Book of Pantagruel, C11 Why monks are readily found in kitchens [Epistemon] 'I don't know what the devil you find to praise so much here! I've gazed at it all as much as you have and am no more blind than you are. But what of it? There are fine houses,…
#Rabelais2025 Quart Livre (11) „Que signifie, demanda frère Jean, et quelle est la raison pour laquelle toujours on trouve des moines en cuisine, et jamais on n'y trouve ni rois, ni papes, ni empereurs? … Il veut dire, répondit Épistémon, des formes suivant la matière … 1+
“There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever” -Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
She was here, dying. The self-realization, the consciousness, that didn’t transfer; no soul to transmigrate. Just behavior, as patterned. All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. (518) Iain Banks / Surface Detail
“I think the best sections in Dostoyevsky’s writings are those which are metaphysical rather than religious. And metaphysics is something that’s always interested me, in the sense that one wants to speculate about these areas that are beyond one’s ken, as it were.” — W.G. Sebald
#Rabelais2025 The Fourth Book of Pantagruel, C10 How Pantagruel landed on the Island of Cheli over which ruled the saintly King Panigon [Frère Jean] 'Mighty God! – pardon my swearing – why don't we rather transport our human frailties to some fair and godly kitchen, there to…
#Rabelais2025 ‚Beati immaculati in via‘. Quart Livre 10 „Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way“ Psalm 119
“God save noble King Panigon,” [Friar John] cried enthusiastically. “By the Lord’s belly and my own, he keeps a magnificent kitchen!” #Rabelais2025 4th Bk C10 How Pantagruel went Ashore on the Island of Cheli, the Isle of Peace, and how he met its Ruler, King Panigon, or Biscuit