Ralph Snyder

@ralphsnyder.bsky.social

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Mais moi, malheureusement, je ne sais pas voir les moutons à travers les caisses. Je suis peut-être un peu comme les grandes personnes. J'ai dû vieillir.

Screenshot from Radio Franc2 for the audio dramatization of La Légende des chavaliers de la Table Ronde
Cover to "Le Fantôme de l'Opèra in Easy French Adapted by Pierre Lefranc Based on the novel by Gaston Leroux"
A very young ragamuffin is trying to wield an enormous mop.
In the foreground are Phileas Fog and Passepartout. Around them are images evocative of scenes in the book: Big Ben, a steam locomotive, an elephant, a boat, the Taj Mahal. There is also a hot air balloon even though there is no hot air balloon in the book.
A grey tabby recliner on a beige sofa with one paw extended. She is clearly judging you.
Butterfly or moth. Off white spots on black wings
Cover of "Henry the Fowler: Power and Conquest in Tenth-Century Germany.
A grey tabby looking pensive
A photo of pain suisse or Swiss bread. A pastry made of puff pastry or brioche* and stuffed with pastry cream and raisins. *puff pastry is better
The cover of Robert MacFarlane's "Is a River Alive?" Blue and green swirls suggesting the flow of water overlaid with the title and the author's name in white text
A bag of potatoes. (OK it's not really a wrong answer, but ...
The cover to "Between Two Rivers." It is black with a sinuous band of orange suggestive of a river. There are also abstract doodles toward the bottom that, perhaps, suggest the swamps that the Tigris and Euphrates pass through before reaching the sea.
Drawing of a boy circa 1870. He is sitting beneath a tree and wearing a broad brimmed hat, jacket, and pants. He is bare foot.
Cover to "Dwelling." Against a red background "dwelling" cascades down from the top to about the middle. It ends in a human figure that lacks head and torso, wears a black (or dark gray) skirt. The feet are arranged as if being fitted for new shoes. In the lower right corner the words "A Novel Emily Hunt Kivel" are arranged haphazardly in several colors.
Cover to "Genghis Khan." Shows a man dressed in a red tunic, blue trousers, a purple cloak, a white headdress similar to a turban, a white belt and gold slippers, holding a spear in his right hand, a horsehair fly swatter in his right, a recurve bow slung on his shoulder and a quiver of arrows on his back.
Cover to Marquez's " One Hundred Years of Solitude." A woman is shown from mid-torso up. She is looking to her left perhaps at the parrot sitting on her shoulder
Cover of "The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family" by Peter Firstbrook
Cover for "Binti:The Complete Trilogy with a Brand New Binti Story" by Nnedi Okorafor
Cover of "The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilizations" by Owen Rees.
A fire burning merrily in a wood burner.
Two men are standing at a blackboard covered in arcane equations. In the middle of the derivation is "Then a miracle occurs"
A grey and white tabby cat asleep and curled up round
A grey tabby sitting on a sofa while not barfing.
Black text on pink background. Autism: I have a system ADHD: I have an idea AuDHD: I have 47 half-built systems for 92 hyperfixation ideas ... and they're all in a chaotic shame pile on my floor
Cover of "Inhumane Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World.
Rosie the Robot from The Jetsons
Cover for A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. The background color is black. The title is in white. At the top is the nib of a fountain pen. At the bottom a candle. Between them a red lines in complicated curly cues suggesting both a line of writing and a plume of smoke.
Cover of "Days at the Mirasaki Bookshop" by Satoshi Yagisawa. The art shows packed bookshelves left and right. A door is in the middle. Through the door you can the silhouettes of a man and a woman. They are facing away from each other and appear to be reading the way one does when considering whether to buy a book.
Cover of "Before We Say Goodbye" by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, the fourth in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series. The art shows two bent wood chairs flanking an abstract and large potted shrub. A cat is reaching toward tge chair on the left. It is unclear if she wants to jump up on it or shred the seat cushion (Nota: there are no cats or potted plants in any of the books)
A post with two likes and 14 reposts that says "Talent hits a target that nobody else can hit. Genius hits a target that nobody else can see."
The cover of "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence and Our Obession with Human Origins." The cover art show the climax of a mammoth hunt
Cover to "The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity" The artwork is impressionistic renderings of Paleolithic cave art in red ochre against a grayish teal background.
A black plastic fold-away table about 1 meter by 1 meter and two chairs to match
Lt. Uhura is telling Capt. Kirk she is receiving message on subspace frequency. "It's someone offering an extended warranty on the Enterprise."
The remains of the donjon. A round tower of stacked stone surrounded be tumble down walls of the same construction. It is currently closed to the public; so, I couldn't conduct a real survey, but it appears to be a simple tower surrounded by a rectangular enclosure with subsidiary towers at the corners.
View of the north side of Aurignac. Houses and shops have largely replaced the medieval walls. A meadow grows right up to the edge of town
A photo of Auringac, a riot of red tiled roofs and white washed buildings perched on a hill with woods below, and in the extreme foreground farmland dotted with bales of hay.
A fairly generic countryside. In the foreground is the branch of a cherry tree and some flowers (yellow and purple). Behind is a field of grass rising to a small wood in which is a farmhouse. In the far background is a dark band, which is mountains and above them is a sky laden with white, puffy clouds.
A bunch of grapes just beginning to form. Below is a big ol' grape leaf and behind is a cottage wall and path.
Four nascent cherries nestled in among the withered remains of some blossoms
A rather bedraggled cherry blossom almost obscured by leaves