"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

#Spooktober 12: The Bridal Ornaments

Today’s reading on my Patreon is “The Bridal Ornaments” by Johann August Apel, translated by David Lyndsay for Forget Me Not For 1827 (1826).
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Isaac Asimov’s Living Space and Other Stories

By the life of me, I will never understand how these are collected.The book contains some delightful short stories plus a slightly longer one (Profession), mostly all of them revolving around the rise of Multivac, the first supercomputer built by humanity which in turn takes

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Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Architect

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The Thursday Murder Club

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