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Anna Iltnere November 21, 2019 Quote Quotes

Quote by Michel Foucault

In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up...

Michel Foucault

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"Vital sidled over too, visibly softened by the sea air and silky murmur of the shore. 'Tomorrow or the day after.'⁣ 'The fishing's all finished?' I asked.⁣ 'I-i-i-in three weeks' time, there's going to be the c-c-c-crab. G-g-g-good ones to eat.'⁣ 'Heee ... That's another kind of trap.'⁣ 'And what are you going to do in the meantime?'⁣ 'Christ in a chalice, nothing!'⁣ We burst out laughing. It struck me how handsome a man he was. Feet planted firmly, knees holding strong beneath his worn jeans, he stood anchored to the ground, roots stretching down to the earth's core." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #wewerethesaltofthesea #roxannebouchard #fiction #bookstagram #salt #fishing #love #friendship #waves #crime #writing #story #novek #magical #haunting #fishingvillage #quebec #detective #borrow #read #page33
"Small boots appeared in front of my face. The Polish girl knelt in front of me with snow wrapped in a handkerchief. She swept my hair aside and pressed the cold compress to my forehead. "Go away," I told her. "Wait." The nurse looked to the Polish girl. "Could you please go outside and find a large stick?" The girl nodded and left. The nurse then sat down in front of me. I watched her mouth as she whispered. "Her name is Emilia. She's from southern Poland. Her father sent her away for safety... near Nemmersdorf." "Holly hell," I breathed. She nodded and opened her bag. "I'm Joana. I worked as physician's assistant for a few years. I'm not German. I'm Lithuanian. Is that a problem?" "I don't care what you are. Have you done this before?" PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #rutasepetys #salttothesea #1945 #ship #wilhelmgustloff #historical #fiction #war #germany #poland #lithuania #penguinbooks #bookdtagram #borrow #read #page33 @rutasepetysauthor
"There may even have been some contact with the Black Sea, if the story of Jason's Argonauts has any historical basis. The 'Gelidonya wreck', a thirteenth-century shipwreck off the coast of southern Turkey, illuminates the trading world of the Mycenaeans. Most of the wreck was swept away by the waters, but its cargo was too heavy for the seas to shift: half a ton of big copper ingots, as well as bronze goods and seals that suggest the ship had visited Syria and Cyprus. Another slightly older wreck, found at Uluburun off the Turkish coast, contained even larger amounts of copper and, intriguingly, one tenth the amount of tin, the right amount for the manufacture of bronze." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #davidabulafia #thegreatsea #humanhistory #mediterranean #book #bookstagram #greek #cyprus #mycenaeans #blacksea #shipwreck #archeology #coast #argonauts #connections @penguinbooks #borrow #read #page33
"Ishmael begins "Cetology" apologizing for a break in the action since the Pequod is finally at sea and rolling along under sail. He has established how dangerous and honorable it is to be a whaleman, but before he continues to the high drama of revealing Ahab and his true mission of lusty revenge against the White Whale, he pauses here on the North Atlantic for what he seems "a matter almost indispensable": to define whether a whale is a mammal or a fish and to classify how sperm whales fit into the broader taxonomy of cetaceans. "Cetology" is his longest direct exposition on science in the novel." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #ahabsrollingsea #naturalhistory #mobydick #richardjking #hermanmelville #ahab #whale #whitewhale #ishmael #whaling #pequod #ship #roll #books #bookstagram @uchicagopress #borrow #read #page33
"The couple had come back when her father died, three years later, to care for her mother and run her parents' farm on the far side of the creek. When he first caught sight of her, buying a paper for quilting needles on a leaden summer Saturday, there had been shadows on her neck, and thumbprints on her arms. His stomach had jumped, then plummeted, and he realized that all the filthy dreams he'd had since she left had been about her." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #theshore #sarataylor #fiction #islands #atlanticocean #women #drugs #wilderness #domesticviolence #strenght #bravery #home #wellbeing #story #debut #book #bookstagram #borrow #read #page33
"And then there's no day or night, simply hours trickling by, the sky darkening, darkness spreading over the ocean, lights having to be lit on the bridge. Sleeping . . . Occasionally we eat. Breakfast at four in the afternoon, lunch at eleven in the evening. I gobble it down. Sausages swimming in fat, baked beans with too much sugar, claggy rice, I feel every mouthful could save my life. The men laugh. 'She can really put it away!' We hit a bank of black cod on the third night. The sea is no calmer. Simon and I are still losing our balance, struggling to stay upright, then slamming into the corners of crates, to the exasperation if the other men." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #catherinepoulain #womanatsea #french #translation #adrianahunter #fishing #boat #alaska #ocean #nature #life #story #strongwomen #inspiration #bookstagram #woman #jonathancape @vintagebooks #borrow #read #page33

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Look what I found in the dark! This beautiful book will be published after one month, on Feb 20, 2020. @mattgaw's inspiring journey under the moon and stars, "we only need to step outside to find that, in darkness, the world lights up." Borrow and read in the Sea Library #elliottandthompson #bookstagram #moon #stars #darkness #nature
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Artist and maker Jess Rippengale grew up in Cornwall and crochets sea in her works. Last week I received a gift from her for the Sea Library, "Framed crochet seascape, Bradwell-on-Sea". "Your project brings me little sparks of joy and I want to return that gift," writes Jess. I am grateful for such a support, and the Sea Library has become even more beautiful now. Thank you @jess_rippengale and wish you an inspiring and happy 2020! #art #crochet #craft #sea #beach #bradwellonsea #essex
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You can't have too many copies of a good book! Jon James from UK has donated to the Sea Library "The Seabird's Cry" by brilliant Adam Nicolson (loved this book), and also his own book of poems and drawings. "An Observer's Book of Birds" is meant to be given away after reading, to trace it's path as a if it would be a ringed bird. Grateful! #sealibrary #bookstagram #happy #wilkiamcollins #fellinepress

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