• Midwest Grimoire •

I’m out enjoying a storm.

It smells like wet pine and mud.

And the cicadas are screaming.

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

by Sappho, Translated by Anne Carson

“From poet and classicist Anne Carson comes this translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. Carson presents all the extant fragments of Sappho's verse, employing brackets and white space to denote missing text - allowing the reader to imagine the poems as they were written.”

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Sappho was a Greek lyric poet (written to be sung while accompanied by music) who flourished in the 6th century BCE on Lesbos (the third largest island in Greece) and has been greatly admired since antiquity for the beauty of her writing style.

Sappho was given names such as the "Tenth Muse" and "The Poetess". Beyond her poetry, she is well known as a symbol of love and desire between women, with the English words sapphic and lesbian being derived from her own name and the name of her home island respectively. Whilst her importance as a poet is confirmed from the earliest times, all interpretations of her work have been coloured and influenced by discussions of her sexuality.

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Books I read in October/Spooky book recs ~

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The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

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The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

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The Witches by Roald Dahl

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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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Tales of Terror from Edgar Alan Poe

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The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Gothtober xx

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🧡 I put a spell on you 🖤

“On All Hallow's Eve when the moon is around, a virgin shall summon us from under the ground. Oh, we shall be back. And the lives of all the children shall be mine.”

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🍁 Happy Autumn 🍁

✧･ﾟ: *✧* an enchanted bookshop for u *✧*:･ﾟ✧

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9/4/21

White Rabbit Used Books

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✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ~come on in~. *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* table of contents. *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

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Happy full moon to you all~

this grimoire is so special to me

hope you like her,

she’s my pride and joy

xoxo

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✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* some stones. *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

aragonite, clear quartz, malachite, & a geode~

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* support your local library. *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

8/13/21

The Song of the Jellicles

Jellicle Cats come out to-night

Jellicle Cats come one come all:
The Jellicle Moon is shining bright—

Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball.

Jellicle Cats are black and white,

Jellicle Cats are rather small;

Jellicle Cats are merry and bright,

And pleasant to hear when they caterwaul.

Jellicle Cats have cheerful faces,

Jellicle Cats have bright black eyes;

They like to practise their airs and graces

And wait for the Jellicle Moon to rise.

Jellicle Cats develop slowly,

Jellicle Cats are not too big;

Jellicle Cats are roly-poly,

They know how to dance a gavotte and a jig.

Until the Jellicle Moon appears

They make their toilette and take their repose:

Jellicle Cats wash behind their ears,

Jellicle dry between their toes.

Jellicle Cats are white and black,

Jellicle Cats are of moderate size;

Jellicle Cats jump like a jumping-jack,

Jellicle Cats have moonlit eyes.

They're quiet enough in the morning hours,

They're quiet enough in the afternoon,

Reserving their terpsichorean powers

To dance by the light of the Jellicle Moon.

Jellicle Cats are black and white,

Jellicle Cats (as I said) are small;

If it happens to be a stormy night

They will practise a caper or two in the hall.

If it happens the sun is shining bright

You would say they had nothing to do at all:

They are resting and saving themselves to be right

For the Jellicle Moon and the Jellicle Ball.

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What are you guys reading? Xx