Illustration of little black cat running beneath a full moon beside a tree and a bat in flight. The Moon THe moon has a face like the clock in the hall; She shines on thieves on the garden wall, On streets and fields and harbour quays, And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees. The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse, The howling dog by the door of the house, The bat that lies in bed at noon, All love to be out by the light of the moon. But all of the things that belong to the day Cuddle to sleep to be out of her way; And flowers and children close their eyes Till up in the morning the sun shall arise.

‘The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse, The howling dog by the door of the house, The bat that lies in bed at noon, All love to be out by the light of the moon.’ ~ Robert Louis Stevenson for #BookWormSat
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Photo of a black panther

"They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away."
- Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
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“The peculiarity of being a writer is that the entire enterprise involves the mortal humiliation of seeing one's own words in print.”

“Let Me Tell You What I Mean” ~ Joan Didion, 2021

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📻 “Let Me Tell You What I Mean”, 2023
6:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra

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From 2023, 📻 8 essays selected from Joan Didion’s “Let Me Tell You What I Mean” essay collection, published in 2021

Omnibus of five episodes abridged by Richard Hamilton & read by Laurel Lefkow

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R-The Reverend Abraham Fleming penned in 1577, the description of Black Shuck in his brochure termed, ‘A Straunge and Terrible Wunder.’ (Old English)

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The chilling folklore of Black Shuck, East Anglia’s legendary spectral hound! Massive black dog with fiery red or green eyes roams Norfolk & Suffolk roads. Sixteenth-century omen of death. In 1577 Bungay church, it burst in, killed 2, left scorch marks still visible.

THIS is the picture of the Cat that Walked by Himself, walking by his wild lone through the Wet Wild Woods and waving his wild tail.

“THIS is the picture of the Cat that Walked by Himself, walking by his wild lone through the Wet Wild Woods and waving his wild tail.”

-R. Kipling, Just So Stories

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🎨Sir John Tenniel circa 1910.

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“We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” asked Alice.
“You must be,” purred the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”

— Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland 🍄✨
Slip down the rabbit hole and curl up with a clever literary cat today… if you dare. 🐱📖 #Caturday

An illustration of a spider with a happy face imposed on it.

The spider is in Sophie's lap, and she's stroking its head with her pinky.
All kinds of strange, crazy, fucked-up, incredible things.

🕷️Rachel Harrison🕷️
📖Cackle

🖼️Odilon Redon
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A book cover for Watership Down shows a large, detailed illustration of a rabbit’s head in profile, its fur rendered in soft earthy tones of brown, gold, and green. The rabbit’s eye is prominent and reflective, giving it an alert, thoughtful expression. Behind it, a gently rolling countryside stretches across the background, drawn in light blues and greens. Sparse trees dot the hills, and two smaller rabbits are shown running across the landscape in the distance. At the top, the text reads “40th Anniversary Edition” and the title Watership Down, while the author’s name, Richard Adams, appears below. The overall style is delicate and pastoral, evoking nature and quiet movement.

A worldwide bestseller for over thirty years, Watership Down is one of the most beloved novels of all time. Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and

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An illustration from the children's book The White Cat and the Monk, a retelling of a 9th-century Irish poem "Pangur Bán". The illustration, created by Sydney Smith, depicts a monk sitting in his simple room, holding his white cat, Pangur, on his lap. ‘With my white cat, Pangur’

‘Day and night, soft purr, soft pad,
Pangur Bán has learned his trade.
Day and night, my own hard work
Solves the cruxes, makes a mark.’ Anon ~ C9th monk trans. Heaney. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Sydney Smith

“A romantic is usually afraid in case reality doesn't come up to expectations.”

📖 “Our Man In Havana” ~ Graham Greene, 1958

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🎥 “Our Man In Havana”, 1959
4:35pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

“You should dream more. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.”

📖 “Our Man In Havana” ~ Graham Greene, 1958

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🎥 “Our Man In Havana”, 1959
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A richly illustrated book cover shows several anthropomorphic animals dressed in Edwardian-style clothing gathered outside a grand house. At the top, an ornate golden frame surrounds the title The Wind in the Willows. On the steps, a well-dressed toad in a bright waistcoat and jacket stands in the doorway, holding a hat and striking a confident pose. In front of him, three other animals face the steps: a badger in a long coat with hands clasped behind his back, a small mole in a blue coat standing attentively, and a rat in a dark suit looking downward. The house behind them features tall windows and brick walls, with large potted plants flanking the entrance. The scene has a classic, storybook quality, evoking a polite but slightly tense social moment among the characters.

The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. It tells the story of Mole, Ratty and Badger as they try to help Mr. Toad after he becomes obsessed with motorcars and gets into trouble.

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A black-and-white illustration shows a small group gathered inside a hollow, cave-like shelter. On the right, a young man lies on the ground, slightly propped up, looking up as Trufflehunter, a large badger, leans over him with a calm, attentive expression, as if checking on his condition. To the left, two dwarfs sit near a small fire—one quiet and focused downward, the other wearing a hat and gesturing as if speaking. The rough, earthen interior has small objects like cups or tools tucked into the walls. Artwork by Pauline Baynes

Trufflehunter was an old talking badger who lived during the time of the War of Deliverance, and who later served Caspian X during his time as king of Narnia. He was also the first talking beast of Narnia that Caspian had ever met.

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a group of cartoon characters including a cat and a dog ALT: a group of cartoon characters including a cat and a dog

Heaven is here
Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog
And little mouse, every unworthy thing,
Live here in heaven and may look on her,
But Romeo may not.
Shakespeare, ROMEO & JULIET, 3.3
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Happy creepy #Caturday & #BookWormSat courtesy of Poe & illustrator/wood engraver Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990) 'The hideous beast had seduced me into murder & whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman' (The Black Cat) Never mess with a kitty.

To W.E. Henley [c. 25 October 1885] Skerryvore To Mr Henley ooral ooralooralooraloo. The wife arrived with her pulse at 102 And a cat so lovelv? I don't know what to do, And biscuits so good I could eat them till all was blue And sheets of Otto are ordered off to you And I drink in sorrow the bile that I have to brew And I shall be glad to learn it goes better with you And I am your humble servant Robert Lou is STEVENSON gone? The cat's view is that my papers are the bog! This plan will never answer! When a cat comes in at the door, literature flies out of the window. Not that there's much of it to fly from here. Parceque je swee le imbecile to such a point as few have yet attained: apparently, an indecent imbecile? This flattering tale! Go way, you naughty man! But the time is now beginning when I shall have to pay for my popularity. I have long expected it. When you find a friend beginning to get it (and you will see […]

Muriel Spark thought cats aided writing. Robert Louis Stevenson, though, would disagree…

“When a cat comes in at the door, literature flies out of the window”

—RLS writing to WE Henley on the arrival of Ginger, “a monster of laziness & self-sufficiency”
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A rough collie playing Lassie from - Lassie TV series (1954–1973), filming on location in Florida (1965)

Book over with drawing of Elizabeth Gaskell The Half-Brothers "But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be.

Lassie came home, with my handkerchief tied round her neck. They knew and understood, and the whole strength of the farm was turned out to follow her, with wraps, and blankets, and brandy, and every thing that could be thought of.

The Half-Brothers, by the uncredited Elizabeth Gaskell #bookwormsat

Artwork of a mouse in nature nibbling on something. Purple flowers and greenery.

'A darling Mouse it is:—
Part hope not likely to take wing,
Part memory, part anything
You please.

Venus-cum-Iris Mouse
From shifting tides set safe apart,
In no mere bottle, in my heart …'
-Christina Rossetti

🎨Dick Twinney
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Commander Vimes visits the Ankh-Morpork Royal College of Heralds and discover's they don't just 'make up' the look of the animals on a coat of arms.

Feet Of Clay by Terry Pratchett

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From Lewis Carroll’s own illustrated manuscript of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. Written in shape of a mouse’s tail.

‘We lived beneath the mat,
Warm and snug and fat,
But one woe, and that
Was the cat!
To our joys a clog, In our eyes a fog, On our hearts a log
Was the dog!
When the cat's away,
Then the mice will play…’ ~ Lewis Carroll. 1/2
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How Sir Walter Scott made the Dandie Dinmont terrier a legend This week marked Sir Walter Scott’s birthday — and so it seemed the right moment to celebrate the terrier that owes its fame, and its name, to his pen.

Dandie Dinmont terriers are named after a character in Walter Scott’s GUY MANNERING. Scott was a committed dog-lover: his favourite, a Pyrenean Wolfdog/Highland Deerhound cross named Maida, has his own memorial at the entrance to Abbotsford
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Cat Among the Fairies - John Anster Fitzgerald by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble Cat Among the Fairies - John Anster Fitzgerald John Anster Fitzgerald was known as "Fairy Fitzgerald" for his main subject matter. He was a leading Victorian fairy painter and his work is often dark and surreal with veiled references to his drug use. Please see other prints by him in my shop

She sights a Bird—she chuckles—
She flattens—then she crawls—
She runs without the look of feet—
Her eyes increase to Balls …
-Emily Dickinson
🎨John Anster Fitzgerald
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"Gestumblindi said:
"Who are the twain
that on ten feet run?
three eyes they have,
but only one tail.
Alright guess now
this riddle, Heithrek!"

Heithrek said:

"Good is thy riddle, Gestumblindi,
and guessed it is:
that is Odin riding on Sleipnir."

(Heiðreks gátur)

🎨 John Bauer

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Illustration. A black cat walks along a path in a flower garden.

'A black cat among roses,
Phlox, lilac-misted under a first-quarter moon,
The sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock.
The garden is very still,
It is dazed with moonlight
Contented with perfume.'
~Amy Lowell

🎨Arthur Rackham
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Illustration of Dorothy talking to a frightened and presumably ashamed lion on the yellow brick road, toto looks on, the scarecrow is floundering to one side and the tin man sits in the grass with a woodland in the background. Underneath the illustration is a quote, ‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself!’ Which isn’t very nice!

‘’He is my dog, Toto,’ answered Dorothy.
‘Is he made of tin, or stuffed?’ asked the Lion.
‘Neither. He's a-- a-- a meat dog,’ said the girl.’ ~ L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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🖼 Illustration by W.W. Denslow, 1900.

Cheshire Cat - Alice in Wonderland - Arthur Rackham by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble Cheshire Cat - Alice in Wonderland - Arthur Rackham Please look in my shop for more "Alice"https://www.redbubble.com/people/forgottenbeauty/collections/993541-alice-in-wonderland-and-the-wind-in-the-w...

“Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?”
The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?”
“I don’t know,” Alice answered.
“Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?”
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Dr Nikola, the master criminal created by Guy Boothby in 1895, owned a pet cat, huge and black, that would habitually be sitting in his lap while he plotted or threatened. But unlike Blofeld's pampered moggy, Nikola's cat was telepathic and possessed of fiendish intelligence.
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Top: A picture of a Dolphin sticking its head above the water in profile. Large text: Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Bottom: Black text on white: For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reasons.

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#DouglasAdams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy