“It is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart. What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, of its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it. In comparison, the sorts of sights offered in such places as Africa and America, though undoubtably very exciting, would, I am sure, strike the objective viewer as inferior on account of their unseemly demonstrativeness.” #KazuoIshiguro #TheRemainsOfTheDay #HampsteadHeath #Springtime #Almost #QuoteOfTheDay #InstaQuote #HaveMoreThanThouShowest #SpeakLessThanThouKnowest #ButlerLife #London #Uk #Countryside #Nature #Instabooks 
Call me conkers but the thing I miss most about going out is #reading #alone in #CosyCorners, preferably in a foreign #FarawayLand where nobody knows my name. So anywhere really, #HashtagLol. “Wanted man in Detriot City, wanted man in San Anton' But there's one place I'm not wanted lord, It's the place that I call home.” #NickCave #WantedMan #DHLawrence #BookLover #InstaBOOK #Vilnius 
Some #BandPins come & go, but #ÔPaon, like #ThomasHardy, is forever. #Art #Music #Timeless #OPaon 
I always encourage my students to read above & beyond the set texts, because themes that concern a writer are rarely exhausted in one work alone. Having recently explored #Hamlet, for example, this ambiguous line in #TimonOfAthens, spoken in apparent praise of a painting, takes on greater significance in light of Hamlet’s advice to the players not to overact. “Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.” Something exaggerated is scarcely believable, as in the oft-quoted phrase “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” Shakespeare seems very concerned with balance & temperance in these plays (“blessed are those whose blood and judgment are so well commingled”), and though #Tolstoy found no piety in the bard, lines such as “He wrought better that made the painter” remind us to be humble artists in the presence of divine creation. Therefore this quote (pictured) and the preceding line “It tutors nature” is really an accusation of hubris disguised as flattery - a core theme in all the late works. #TimonOfAthens #Shakespeare #Art #Nature #Balance #Hamlet #QuoteOfTheDay #InstaQuote #SayWhat #ActualContent #TLDR 
My #obsession with #TangDynasty #poets started with #LiBai, unsurprisingly, but this fascination soon spread to #contemporaries of that #Moon #Loving #Drunkard & I hit upon the #mastery of #WangWei & his #MountainsAndStreams. My #world is #ForeverEnriched. #TangPoets #ChinesePoetry #PenguinClassics 
Worth remembering sometimes that it’s always #today & never #tomorrow. #CarlJung #Philosophy #QuoteOfTheDay #DontWorry I do have an #InstaDesign #PlanInPlace, it just appears to be #PrettyRandom #AtTheMoment. #CanYouTellWhatItIsYet? #LiveForTheMoment #YouOwnIt #MaybeNot #PlanForTheFuture #HaveABanana #InstaQuote #LiveYourLife #CryThoseTears #JustDoIt #JustRegretIt #DontBlameMe #WhenItAllGoesWrong #SeeYouInCourt #Latergram #Sk8erNan #LiveFastDieOld 
We’ve all been there - you’ve been meaning to safely integrate your #Jungian #ShadowSelf into a broader conceptual #Freudian triumvirate but, what with #Incessant #PublicAnnouncements on the #Subway, you struggle to #StayFocussed on lower levels of your #troubled #psyche. Ring any #Pavlovian bells, Arleekin? (The name of one of his dogs, apparently. Means “Clown”, I’m told). #ModernManInSearchOfASoul #CarlJung #WhatAmITalkingAbout #WhyAmIFollowingThisAccount #IThoughtYouWereAPodcast #Reincarnation #Instabooks #BookLover #Psychology #Philosophy #MultiplePersonalities #Shadow #JungianShadow #InnerDarkness #LiveLaughLove #Die 
#AliceMunro’s short stories, such as those collected in the #book #Runaway, are hauntingly #unique #works I recommend to everyone who undertakes so much as a cursory perusal of my #bookshelves! #WorthInvestigating #FoShiz #Booklover #BornOnATrain #Instaquotes #QuoteOfTheDay #Treasure #Integrity #Waylaid #Art #Soul #Passion #Sacrifice #Misunderstood #TrueToYourself #StayTrue #StayYou #IKnowTheresAnAnswer #GoodThingsComeToThoseWhoWait #Explore #BeFree #Latergram 
2023 is a trilogy by The Justified Ancients of MuMu , otherwise known as legendary 80s pop band #TheKLF who recently released their music on streaming sites for the first time ever since deleting their entire catalogue & burning a million pounds back in #1994. #RocknRoll #PerformanceArt #GermaineGreer #PaulSimon #Booklover #Instabooks #MusicBooks #BooksAndMusic