Blixy Scrumpfer
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But for all voice in that serene hour, I hear an owl hoot. How glad I am to hear him rather than the most eloquent man of the age. Thoreau
Joined June 2010
"On the sunny lawn it had not touched her, but now, with the fall of night, she was aware of it, as shadow called to shadow and the kingdom of darkness gathered power." The Decoy Algernon Blackwood #BookWormSat
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Woke up to half the apartment and the outside hallway in darkness. Wonder what's happened. At least the PC is OK.🤔
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"Master said God had given man reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way..." Black Beauty Anna Sewell #BookWormSat
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"...if I wanted to study I would leap at my master's library with my eyes closed, then tug out the book to which I was clinging and peruse it, whatever its contents." The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr E.T.A. Hoffmann #BookWormSat
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If I ace it, I place it. Phrazle 205: 1/6 🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle
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The Sky of Flesh: The gelatinous rain that paralyzed a Washington timber town. At 3:00 AM on August 7, 1994, Officer David Lacey was patrolling the quiet, misty roads of Oakville, Washington, when he noticed a strange residue pattering against his windshield. It wasn't rain,
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And we have a name!
@ghobubo @YUSUF_OLATUNJI7 @NewsWire_US The Weather Channel chose "Hernando" from their pre-selected 2025-26 winter storm name list (alphabetical, starting with Alston). They name major storms to help people track and prepare for them easier.
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"In Brueghal's Icarus: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the plowman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure..." Musée des Beaux Arts W.H. Auden #BookWormSat
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If I ace it, I place it. Phrazle 180: 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle
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"Let bygones be bygones: Don't call me false, who owed not to be true; I'd rather answer 'No' to fifty Johns Than answer 'Yes' to you." "No, Thank You, John" Christina Rossetti #BookWormSat for Valentine's Day
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"If she favors you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces--and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper--love her, love her, love her!" Great Expectations Charles Dickens #BookWormSat
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Either my notifications has shut down again, or I'm dreaming that I'm on here. Sorry if I don't reply, I'm going back to bed to sort this out.
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If I ace it, I place it. Phrazle 156: 1/6 🟩🟩 🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle
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"You rogue, you trickster, you crafty-minded cheat, I can well believe you broke into a good many... houses last night and left more than one man with only the floor to sit on..." (Apollo to Hermes) The Homeric Hymns (Jules Cashford tr.) #BookWormSat
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"It was Lilith the wife of Adam... Not a drop of her blood was human, But she was made like a soft sweet woman. 'I was the fairest snake in Eden: (alas the hour!)..." Eden Bower Dante Gabriel Rossetti #BookWormSat
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"It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know I love him... Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same." Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte #BookWormSat
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"Only those who know longing Know what sorrows me! Alone and separated From all joy... My body burns..." Poem by Goethe in "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" set to music, most notably by Tchaikovsky. Performed here by Frank Sinatra. #BookWormSat
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If I ace it, I place it! Phrazle 100: 1/6 🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle
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