West o' the Moon

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Latinus Offering his Daughter Lavinia to Aeneas in Matrimony (1753–54, now in the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen)

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"A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships."

Jorge Luis Borges

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Schloßpark Berlin Charlottenburg, by Rolf Dietrich Brecher

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Slovenian Alps, by Ivana Cunja

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“I admire machinery as much as any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But, it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.  Never try it for that.  It will break down like a straw.” ― Charles Dickens, “The Wreck of the Golden Mary” (1856)

Image: illustration from Pears' Centenary Edition of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books (1912)

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Thailand, Koh Phi Phi & Lanta scuba diving, by Ilse Reijs and Jan-Noud Hutten

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Arthur Rackham, Undine’s Childhood (1909, illustration for Friedrich de La Motte-Fouqué’s Romantic fairytale novella Undine)

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West Sussex, UK

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From the top of Aletschgletscher (Swiss Alps), by Xonqnopp

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Muttbach, Swiss Alps, by Anna Belial

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The world’s smallest primate, Madame Berthe’s Mouse Lemur (Microcebus berthae) - 9.2cm long on average - native to Madagascar, critically endangered

Photo (c) in phocus

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John Donne was, according to Katherine Rundell, "a neologismist. He accounts for the first recorded use in the Oxford English Dictionary of around 340 words in the English language. Apprehensible, beauteousness, bystander, criminalist, emancipation, enripen, fecundate, horridness, imbrothelled, jig." — Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne (Faber, 2022)

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Wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca), by Svdmolen

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Speedwell, by Astronom8

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by Melissa

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