Helen of Troy (detail) c. 1867. by Frederick Sandys
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Bob Hicok
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Possession, dir. by Andrzej Żuławski (1981)
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Galileo Chini - L’Amore (1919)
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me reading one of the most famous books ever written: do people know about this book. do they know.
“Opera has the power to warn you that you have wasted your life. You haven't acted on your desires. You've suffered a stunted, vicarious existence. You've silenced your passions. The volume, height, depth, lushness, and excess of operatic utterance reveal, by contrast, how small your gestures have been until now, how impoverished your physicality; you have only used a fraction of your bodily endowment, and your throat is closed.”
— Wayne Koestenbaum, The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire.
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so many of you have never been 26 or 27. well one day you will. this is not a threat this is a promise. or maybe both. it will be fine, is what i’m saying. and then comes 28
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Pier Paolo Pasolini at home, Rome, 1967. Photo: Vittorio La Verde.
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Edvard Munch, Women on the Beach, 1898
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realmente old man fucker no tiene el mismo poder que el cogeviejos. me encanta. es medio como un título feudal. juan carlos el cogeviejos de españa o algo así
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Etiquette Problems in Pictures, Lillian Eichler, 1924
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“The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.”
― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
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Rose O'Neill knew what was up
you Wish you has a monster wife as big and tender as this
Yes this is the same Rose O'Neill who invented Kewpies
A quote from O'Neill: “The buffoonery of the Kewpies and the passion of my serious drawings playing side by side is unusual, but not too unusual. In this droll existence, the Hamlet and Lear have always consorted with the clown.”
Here's some more of her "Sweet Monsters". This series was very personal to her, and she meant to keep all these drawings private until Auguste Rodîn insisted she show them.
You can read about this collection HERE and see more in person if you're ever in the Ozarks.