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“My only advice is not to go away. Or, go away. Most Of my decisions have been wrong. When I wake, I lift cold water To my face. I close my eyes. A body wishes to be held, & held, & what Can you do about that?”
— Larry Levis, “In the City of Light,” published in Blackbird
“I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”
— Albert Camus
fling yourself from the window of the continental countess with whom you have an understanding in anticipation of her husband’s early return home; tear across the piazza half-dressed
[Image Description: Tag reading “Regency Rake/3 Snakes In A Frockcoat Inexplicably Passing As A Rich Human Fop”]
The AO3 Tag of the Day is: Reblog if you are 3 snakes in a frockcoat inexplicably passing as a rich human fop, support snakes in frockcoats inexplicably passing as rich human fops, or want the ability to unhinge your jaw and swallow a mouse whole and look fashionable doing it
Hiroshi Yoshida 吉田 博 (1876 - 1950) - Acropolis, Day and Night 1925; Moonlight on Acropolis 1928
St. John and Veronica Diptych (reverse of the right wing), 1483, Hans Memling
Medium: oil,wood
The Red Door - Isabel Quintanilla , 1973.
Spanish,1938-2017
Oil on panel, 164 x108 cm
Latin word of the day: amascō, to begin to love.
Rural Lights - Jason Sacran, 2018
American,b.1980-
Oil on canvas, 18 × 24 in; 45.7 × 61 cm
A gift I painted for my granny’s birthday. Vaccinium Myrtillus are european blueberries/bilberries but in scotland we call them Blaeberries and they’re also great hiking snacks if you happen upon them : 22 Juli 2018
Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs (1864) by Frederic William Burton
The Owl in The Attic and Other Perplexities, James Thurber, 1931
Bernat Martorell c. 1434-1435
Saint George Killing the Dragon (detail)
Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to Véra Nabokov, Letters to Véra, ed. and transl. Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014)
Xuan loc Xuan
you’ve heard of: getting emotionally attached to your roomba
now get ready for: genuinely mourning the mars rover like a deceased loved one
SHE SERVED MANKIND FOR SO MANY YEARS AND NOW SHE’S JUST LAYING UP THERE COLD AND ALONE UNDER A COVER OF DUST TAKEN FROM US BY A SPACE STORM AND SHE WILL NOT BE GIVEN A PROPER RESTING PLACE UNTIL HUMANS REACH MARS AND RETRIEVE HER
