More than a decade before the Czech playwright Karel Capek coined the word "robot", there was Tik-Tok.
"Dorothy and other characters repeatedly question whether Tik-Tok is, in fact, alive."
https://daily.jstor.org/did-the-first-robot-come-from-oz/
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Liebes #fediverse ,
unser neues Kulturprogramm für 2026 ist draußen! 🎉
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Wir hoffen, dass für jede*n was dabei ist. :)
Gedruckt liegt das neue Programm Ende der Woche bei uns aus.
Liebe Grüße
Tina und Max
von der Buchhandlung am Brühl in #Chemnitz
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Segona edició ja!
📕 SI HE DE MORIR
✨Una compilació de textos del cronista de Gaza, Refaat Alareer.
✨El poder de l'educació i la literatura davant de la barbàrie
📚Compra'l aquí: https://sembrallibres.com/llibres/si-he-de-morir/
#Llibres #Català #Valencià #Gaza #Palestina #Genocidi #palestine #Literature #Poesia #Sihedemorir #SembraLlibres #RefaatAlareer #Genocide #Bookstodon #Journalism #Catalunya #PaísValencià
V -Le dernier moment...
C'est long, mais ce sera bon.
Qui disait ça ?
Beckett ~ En attendant Godot
Photo Kathrin Federer
🎉 NEW EDITION!
Alan Sharp (1934–2013) is remembered today as a screenwriter, the author of classic Hollywood movies such as Ulzana’s Raid (1972) & Night Moves (1975), as well as the 1995 film Rob Roy, starring Liam Neeson. But his writing career began with the award-winning – & taboo-breaking – novel A GREEN TREE IN GEDDE. Still controversial, it is nevertheless “a flagship of 1960s Scottish prose”. Order now!
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-green-tree-in-gedde/
Illustration from 20000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne - Alphonse Marie de Neuville (1870)
#illustration #illustrator #engraving #drawing #draw #graphicart #book #ebook #scifi #sciencefiction #novel #readers #writers #earth #sea #author #vintage #retro #art #culture #history #mythology #fantasy #literature #julesverne #alphonsemariedeneuville
#introduction
hejka, jestem Zosia 🤠 potrzebuję miejsca, żeby pisać sb rzeczy i czytać sb rzeczy. co czytać? co pisać?
załączam hasztagi:
#art #illustration #graphicdesign #typography #animation #mograph #ecology #nature #sociology #socialjustice #literature #books #reading #queer #psychology #neurodivergence #fashion #thrifting #fandom #histories #diy #food #cooking #baking #maps #geoguessr
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#OTD in 1752 Frances Burney was born. She "was a novelist, diarist and playwright. In all, she wrote four novels, eight plays, one biography and twenty-five volumes of journals and letters. She has gained critical respect in her own right, but she foreshadowed such novelists of manners with a satirical bent as Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Burney
Burney at PG:
'i stood on a hill in jerusalem today, looking over the border, the arab-israeli border. there is really something frightening about it. there is something insane about it, something which breaks the heart.'
i love james baldwin - today & every day. he is so necessary.
#botd #art #history #literature #palestine #jamesBaldwin
(meanderings about james, below.)
Edited 56d ago
I'm looking for more geography accounts and literature accounts to follow. Any suggestions?
He blinks upon the hearth-rug,
and yawns in deep content,
accepting all the comforts
that Providence has sent…
—Alexander Gray, “On a Cat, Ageing”
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #poem #poetry #cats #aging #ageing
#selfhosting #oss #solarpunk #literature #books
Started 'Anne of Greene Gables', *coping with YouTube withdrawal*
Edited 48d ago
#art #history: when asked, in 1970, by australian journalist, richard carleton, why the PFLP didn't engage in negotiations with the israeli state, ghassan kanafani (esteemed author & a leading figure of palestine's marxist resistance) explained that to do so would be 'a kind of conversation between the sword & the neck'. ghassan *should have* celebrated his 90th birthday yesterday, but he was assassinated by mossad in 1972.
#ghassanKanafani #literature #palestine #gaza #resistance
Edited 172d ago
Lost Federico García Lorca verse discovered 93 years after it was written
Eight-line poem found on the back of a manuscript sheds light on Spanish poet’s preoccupation with time
by Sam Jones
Lorca at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/56772
Why We Still Love Mr. Darcy, 200 Years Later
Susan Moore in Praise of the Model For Self-Aware Romantic Heroes
Pride and Prejudice at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342
![“When the Party entered”
[Copyright 1894 by George Allen.]
A detailed pen-and-ink illustration captioned "When the Party entered," depicting five figures in Regency-era dress — two men and three women — in an animated social gathering scene, with the women in high-waisted gowns and elaborate coiffures reacting to one another's presence.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342-images.html](/proxy/post_attachment/290584/ca5190637a.jpg "“When the Party entered”
[Copyright 1894 by George Allen.]
A detailed pen-and-ink illustration captioned \"When the Party entered,\" depicting five figures in Regency-era dress — two men and three women — in an animated social gathering scene, with the women in high-waisted gowns and elaborate coiffures reacting to one another's presence.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342-images.html")
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𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗠𝗨𝗦: 𝟯𝟱 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗭𝗮𝘂𝗺 𝗯𝘆 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗶 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗷𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗶 (Berlin) — out now from 𝗫𝗲𝘅𝗼𝘅𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.
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Worth a Thousand Words: The Literary Map Painting Collection
by: Julie Stoner
https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2026/09/worth-a-thousand-words-the-literary-map-painting-collection/
Books about Cartography at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=cartography
Stop adapting Jane Austen! Five other 18th-century writers perfect for the screen
From Eliza Haywood to Anne Radcliffe, there are other great 18-century writers whose work would be great on screen.
by Amy Louise Blaney
Most of the books are available at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6124
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50054
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6053
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3268
Why Willa Cather Is America’s Most Underrated Storyteller
The renowned author built her career telling stories about the people who carved a life for themselves in the brutal landscape of the Great Plains.
https://www.thecollector.com/willa-cather-underrated-storyteller/
Cather at PG:
Hamm
On n'est pas en train de...
de... signifier quelque chose?
Clov
Signifier? Nous, signifier?
Ah elle est bonne!
Beckett, Fin de partie
Tango in a madhouse (A.Schnittke)
https://youtu.be/64jhWmnp0BI?si=0hpvh_zz0kGZ8-Z0
Photo Rimantas Bikulčius
Le plus sceptique de tous.
Est le temps, qui fait du Oui avec du Non,
de l'amour avec de la haine,
et le contraire.
Paul Valéry ~ Psaume T
Paolo Conte ~ Parigi
https://youtu.be/4eqjESxHOS4?si=SSJod7ikJxBzpmbT
Photo Doisneau
My new essay about Samuel Johnson
I am unashamed to call him a great man, to say that he is my hero. I can never write of him without strong feeling.
by Karen Swallow Prior and Henry Oliver
https://karenswallowprior.substack.com/p/samuel-johnson-a-writer-for-us-all
Books by Samuel Johnson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/297
Forgotten Mozart notebook reveals how a young woman learned to compose
The notebook preserves something that composer-centred histories often miss: the musical work taking place around Mozart, in this case by a young woman.
by Stacy Olive Jarvis
Original article:
https://www.bnf.fr/en/actualitesEN/discovery-unpublished-autograph-manuscript-mozart-bnf-music-department
Books by Mozart at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1368
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Tout mouvement nous descouvre.
Montaigne ~ Essais I L
ZÉPHYR ~ Compagnie Käfig
https://youtu.be/AaEVIqq7gd4?si=VF5E82E-XVBH1ATQ
Photo Juan Brufal
The two Scottish female novelists who outsold and inspired Jane Austen
by Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman
They are practically unknown today, but Susan Ferrier and Mary Brunton gave Jane Austen a run for her money.
Books by Susan Ferrier and Mary Brunton at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4487
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39506
