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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart In a 1782 letter to his sister, he gave a detailed account of these hectic days in Vienna: "My hair is always done by six o’clock in the morning and by seven I am fully dressed. I then compose until nine. From nine to one I give lessons. Then I lunch..." From "Daily Rituals: How Artists Work", edited and with text by Mason Currey.

Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) "All those I think who have lived as literary men,—working daily as literary labourers,—will agree with me that three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. ... "I always began my task by reading the work of the day before, an operation which would take me half an hour, and which consisted chiefly in weighing with my ear the sound of the words and phrases.… This division of time allowed me to produce over ten pages of an ordinary novel volume a day, and if kept up through ten months, would have given as its results three novels of three volumes each in the year..." From Daily rituals by Mason Currey #dailyrituals #inktober #anthonyTrollope @masoncurrey

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I shall not tell you than two woods. Só vôs dirêi ôu lhê dirêi dúas palavras. "English as She is Spoke" by Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolina. https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ6NOMVBnS_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) “I get up at about eight, do physical exercises, then work without a break from nine till one,” Stravinsky told an interviewer in 1924. Generally, three hours of composition were the most he could manage in a day, although he would do less demanding tasks—writing letters, copying scores, practicing the piano—in the afternoon. Unless he was touring, Stravinsky worked on his compositions daily, with or without inspiration, he said. He required solitude for the task, and always closed the windows of his studio before he began: “I have never been able to compose unless sure that no one could hear me.” If he felt blocked, the composer might execute a brief headstand, which, he said, “rests the head and clears the brain.” - From Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey

Another image from series of literal illustrations of food names.

Omens and Superstitions. In Japan there is a superstition that if a cup or glass containing medicine for a sick person is accidentally upset, then it is an omen of that person's speedy recovery. From "A DICTIONARY OF OMENS AND SUPERSTITIONS" by Philippa Waring

Advice from fairy tales. Whatever is worth doing, is worth overdoing. https://www.instagram.com/p/CNVA1fNhByP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

The hows of how to balance. https://www.instagram.com/p/CanaXjjlhRy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

"I think I know how to get my soul back," I said. From “Tacky Goblin” by T. Sean Steele. https://instagram.com/p/B1jOw5OhHNe/

Beginning. The Unforgiving Tree. Once there was a tree... https://www.instagram.com/p/CQeBCxghBtm/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

See more "Lazy Thoughts from the Quarantine" on my Insta account. https://www.instagram.com/meanwhileplaces/

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained." Marie Curie From a prompt for Transmundane Tuesdays by Carson Ellis.

Gramma Polly packs quite a pinch. See more images from the series: https://www.instagram.com/p/CT7rVNgLezM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

This is how you have the cake and eat it too. https://www.instagram.com/p/CXef5Nnpkuy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Undress you to. "English as She is Spoke" is a delightful example of incompetence and bad judgement. Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolina set out to write a Portuguese-English phrasebook. The only problem was that they didn't speak any English. They did know some French and armed with French-English phrasebook, dictionaries and enthusiasm they brought forth this book. Mark Twain was an early admirer of this book. "Nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect, it must and will stand alone: its immortality is secure."

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) Kant’s biography is unusually devoid of external events. As Heinrich Heine wrote: The history of Kant’s life is difficult to describe. For he neither had a life nor a history. In actual fact, as Manfred Kuehn argues in his 2001 biography, Kant’s life was not quite as abstract and passionless as Heine and others have supposed…. If he failed to live a more adventurous life, it was largely due to his health: the philosopher had a congenital skeletal defect that caused him to develop an abnormally small chest, which compressed his heart and lungs and contributed to a generally delicate constitution. In order to prolong his life with the condition—and in an effort to quell the mental anguish caused by his lifelong hypochondria—Kant adopted what he called “a certain uniformity in the way of living and in the matters about which I employ my mind.” This routine was as follows: Kant rose at 5:00 A.M., after being woken by his longtime servant, a retired soldier under explicit orders not to let the master oversleep. Then he drank one or two cups of weak tea and smoked his pipe. According to Kuehn, “Kant had formulated the maxim for himself that he would smoke only one pipe, but it is reported that the bowls of his pipes increased considerably in size as the years went on.” - From Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey #dailyrituals #inktober #ImmanuelKant @masoncurrey

Patron saint of cats and naps. Nobody, but nobody can nap like a cat

Yours parents does exist yet? Aínda vivem ôs vóssos ôu sêus páes? "English as She is Spoke" by Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolina.

16. Dangerous drops. Prompts are from @janelle.shane generated using the OpenAI net GPT-3. https://www.instagram.com/p/CVQpHCvraU-/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Curl up with a good book. https://www.instagram.com/p/CYPbQ7xp8AD/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link