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Paul Robichaud Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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‘Pan: the Great God's Modern Return’ (Reaktion, 2021); ‘Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, and Brittany’ (Reaktion, 2025).

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Book Cover for: Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Biographia Literaria

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Paul RobichaudPaul Robichaud

For the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, born #OTD in 1772, the god Pan represented ‘intelligence blended with a darker power, deeper, mightier, and more universal than the conscious intellect of man; than intelligence’ itself. ‘Biographia Literaria,’ ch. XXI (1817). #Pan https://t.co/viqoaWdMco

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Book Cover for: Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins

Jitterbug Perfume

Tom Robbins
Paul RobichaudPaul Robichaud

‘Despite Pan’s bedraggled curls and matted wool, despite the drool in the goatee and the manure on his hooves, he was by far the most impressive being Alobar had ever met.’ — Tom Robbins, ‘Jitterbug Perfume’ (1984) #Pan https://t.co/qYUncixqRm

Paperback, 1990

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner

Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner
Paul RobichaudPaul Robichaud

‘One doesn’t become a witch to run around being helpful either… It’s to escape all that ―to have a life of one’s own, not an existence doled out to you by others...’ ― Sylvia Townsend Warner, ‘Lolly Willowes’ (1926) #BookWormSaturday 🖼️Cecil Beaton (1930) https://t.co/NAaDbzp5ZI

Hardcover, 2024

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Phaedrus, Plato

Phaedrus

Plato
Paul RobichaudPaul Robichaud

‘Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one.’ -- Socrates, in Plato’s ‘Phaedrus’ (c. 370 BCE), trans. Benjamin Jowett. #Pan 🎨Simon Mazière, 1688-1690 https://t.co/g7qpBVdjMq

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