Catherine Eaton

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Sterling Pond is small and perfect.

Helen Mirren as Patricia Highsmith? Hmmmmm

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A maple tree in a nearby park never disappoints come autumn.

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M.F. Corwin

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The path forward and the path back.

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daily bunnies 🐇✨

Summer's end

I'm reading this as a follow-up to The Portrait of a Lady. It's been very enjoyable and I'm looking forward to the chapter on George Eliot's influence on James.

He's wonderfully ridiculous.

Henry James is suddenly appearing everywhere in my life and that's okay.

This is the first time I stood under a tupelo tree. It looked like a dark gothic blaze from the outside and then when I stood under it, on a few lower branches, was the bright flame of autumn.

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petipaw

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As @sparrowpost.bsky.social and a few others know, I’m always on the lookout for #trees that may be gateways to another world. I think I found one.

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Gabino Iglesias

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Here’s some Dora Abodi art to make your Sunday a little better.

I'm always telling myself to get up earlier but the night is so delicious.

Autumn beginning

I am nearing the end of The Portrait of a Lady and every time Osmond speaks, my blood runs cold.

My little girl cat's meows sound either like a dinosaur sinking into the depths or a creaky door opening. I've never had a cat make such sounds and I've been enjoying them.

Here is the strange sound maker looking like a Totoro

The maple at the entrance of a park has started turning very early this year.

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Pip Wren

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A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

I saw the most dreamy George Doeuillet dress from the 1910's and I was not allowed to take a picture of it. This is still killing me a little bit inside.

The dress was somewhere between the color of raspberry and strawberry sorbet and incredibly light, stripped of all the heaviness of the earlier periods. it looked so close to the 1920's but not yet there.

It's making me think of rewatching The House of Eliot.

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Art Herstory

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The Museum of Fine Arts Houston has announced its acquisition of Tamara de Lempicka's 1923 painting "Her Sadness"! Until this year, the work had remained in the same family for 90 years.

This girl is just the best.

chicago.suntimes.comReview: If music is the food of love, then Chicago Shakes’ buoyant ‘Play On’ is a feastThe musical, based on the music of Duke Ellington that borrows its scaffolding from Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “Twelfth Night,” shines with an exceptional cast that delivers show-stopping performan...

I saw a great production over the weekend: Twelfth Night set to Duke Ellington’s music. The music from Play On! has been dancing through my head ever since. If I had the time, I’d go and see it again. If you’re in Chicago, I highly recommend it. chicago.suntimes.com/theater/2026...

7 Sept

Every now and then she found out she was wrong, and then she treated herself to a week of passionate humility. After this she held her head higher than ever again; for it was of no use, she had an unquenchable desire to think well of herself. Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

7 Sept

I've been enjoying this reread so much (last time I read James' heavily revised edition of 1908. This time is the 1881 original). I hadn't noticed before how much she's like Austen's Emma.

And that’s the difference between the 1881 version and the later New York one: the earlier one is more witty, more reminiscent of Austen and in the later version (which he edited 30 years later. older and wiser now), much of that was edited out.

Unlike my girlfriends and others around me, however, my glasses—like books—never betrayed me. They always waited for me to return to their world when I opened up another book or took them off my nightstand; they waited for me to open my eyes again. Egana Djabbaraova, My Dreadful Body

Absolutely brilliant read! Thank you so much for your translation, @lizoksbooks.bsky.social. It's way up there with Three Apples Fell From the Sky for me. #MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26

18 Sept

Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time. I worship each god, I praise each day splintered down, splintered down and wrapped in time like a husk, a husk of many colors spreading, at dawn fast over the mountains split. Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm

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I read Holy the Firm in undergrad and I have never forgot the line about every day being a god. RIP, Dillard. Thank you for your unwavering devotion to the writing life.

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Puff the Magic Hater

18 Sept

ICE activity has been picking up again in Chicago A LOT. If you were previously involved with ICE watch efforts, now is a good time to reengage. I’m going to start wearing a whistle again.

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16 Sept

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100 years ago news

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14 Sept

Sept. 14, 1926: The Chicago skyline, framed by the Clark Street Bridge over the Chicago River.

10 Sept

The honeybees were madly busy today.

4 Sept

What can you do with the truth that everyone's a little sad and a little alone. Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star (transl. Benjamin Moser)

8 Sept

Ah if only I could grab Macabéa, give her a good bath, a plate of hot soup, a kiss on the forehead as I tucked her into bed. And cause her to wake up and find simply the great luxury of living. Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star Never have I wanted more for a character than this one.

8 Sept

I'm not entirely sure what Lispector is doing in this story (and I may never be) but I love it.

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Duille

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7 Sept

"Forest Slope in Unterach on the Attersee". Gustav Klimt. 1916.

6 Sept

I am actually thinking about watching the Bears season this year. This is the first time in my life.

3 Sept

daydreaming about cool autumn days in which I can enjoy being outside again

2 Sept

Dorothea doesn't judge anyone for their reading habits.

1 Sept

I ordered a used copy of The Public Image by Muriel Spark and I'm very curious which edition will show up. Impossible to know with used books--mysterious creatures who refuse to show their identity until the last moment

1 Sept

hazy hot moon