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2025-10-13

“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.” ~ Thomas Hardy

#quotes #thomashardy #time

Of Bookish ThingsJPK_elmediat@c.im
2025-10-05

Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy
I've been dipping into Hardy's short stories. His use of irony and coincidence/Fate (Weird) together with the suggestion of the supernatural or referring to folklore can produce stories fit for Halloween.
#TheThreeStrangers and #TheWitheredArm are good examples.

#WessexTales
#Reading #NowReading #Books #WeirdTales #WeirdFiction
#BooksWorthReading #Halloween #Octoberween #Macabre #TheUncanny
#Literature #Art #31DaysofHalloween
#ThomasHardy #Folklore

gutenberg.org/ebooks/3056

"Country Fair"
Teableau for 09/21/25

"Various sights in various climes
I have seen, and more I may see yet,
But that sight never shall I forget..."
Thomas Hardy, At a Country Fair

#Tea #Poetry #Teableau #TeaCozy #TeaCosy #BlackTea #Handmade #Sewing #VintageChina #Miniatures #Figurines #JohnsonBros #HarneyandSons #ThomasHardy

Tea tableau of a Country Fair scene with miniature ceramic figurines of a sheep, a goat, a donkey, a piglet, and a duckling. The tea cozy is a pattern of anxious chickens. The cup and saucer are a rustic Johnson Brothers pattern of a ripening apple, and the tea is Hot Apple Spice black tea from Harney and Sons. Everything rests upon an antique tea towel and touches of gingham.
2025-06-17
“To the Soldier Who Points a Gun at Me”

You think I’m here to die.
You think that’s all we know how to do—
bleed, bury, break.

But listen.

I grow things.
Tomatoes in rusted cans.
Hope in children who don’t know what the word means yet.
I build—walls, stories, mornings.
I fix roofs with one hand and hold my daughter’s hand with the other.

And you?
You carry a gun like it’s your purpose.
But I’ve seen men become ghosts
long before the trigger is pulled.

You call this land a threat.
I call it history .
The call to prayer. The school bell.
The pot of lentils boiling over.

Don’t mistake my softness for surrender.
I don’t need to shout to be strong.
The fig tree in my yard
has stood through three wars
without raising its voice.

You—
with your steel and fear,
your borrowed power—
you patrol streets looking for danger
and miss the beauty flowering between the cracks.

You fear death.
I fear forgetting how to live.

So if you shoot,
know this:
I wasn’t born to hate.
But I won’t vanish to make you comfortable.
I won’t flinch so you can sleep easier.

I am not your victim.
I am not your enemy.
I am the reminder
that even under occupation,
a man can love too fiercely to be erased.

  • Sameh Shahrouj

H/T Cadfa (Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association)

/HT #FilmsForAction FB account
#SamehShahrouj like #ThomasHardy
#TheManIKilled updated

David Paul Nixonnewghoststories@c.im
2025-06-10

The former site of the Hardy Tree - the ancient tree was blown down in 2022 and only the roots and graves remain. Famously, as a young architect, Thomas Hardy supervised the removal of graves to make way for new railway lines, gathering the headstones around the tree in St Pancras old Church. Famously Vampyr author John Polidori’s grave is here. #graves #graveyard #ThomasHardy #bookstodon

The closely packed headstones which once circled The Hardy TreeJohn Polidori’s grave is amongst those here
𝔦𝔬𝔰𝔢𝔭𝔥𝔳𝔰 𝔟𝔦𝔟𝔩𝔦𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔳𝔰🕯bibliothecarivs@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-07

'[Hardy] was always exceptionally anxious and sensitive about reviews.... He might have spared himself the trouble: the divide between those who disliked his language, his lower-class characters, his troubling women and his gloom, and those who appreciated the beauty and imaginative power of his work, was already there and remained firmly fixed throughout his career as a novelist.' - Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin, pp.170-71

#bookstodon #thomashardy #clairetomalin

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𝔦𝔬𝔰𝔢𝔭𝔥𝔳𝔰 𝔟𝔦𝔟𝔩𝔦𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔳𝔰🕯bibliothecarivs@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-07

Random book from our home library:

📖 Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy

#bookstodon #poetry #thomashardy

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