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Fantastic to feel how my poem grows while I myself shrink. It grows, it takes my place. It pushes me aside. It throws me out of the nest. The poem is ready.
from Morning Birds by Tomas Tranströmer, trans. Robin Fulton
Looked through the "Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art" (1906) on Gutenberg and found some cute drawings.
When all you want to be in life is the "Heraldic Pelican in her piety" but you are "The Natural Pelican" :(
Literally any show can be improved by adding more older women. Not many know this, but it’s true.
S T U R G E O N S T A M P S ! !
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Shaun Tan (Chinese-Australian, b. 1974, Perth, Australia) - The Quiet Town, 2021, Paintings: Oil on Canvas
Source: shauntan.net
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it’s like every month there’s some shit from the us that’s like “congressman for iowa john hamburger has introduced the Put Everyone Into A Meat Grinder bill (s.911) & it’s about to get passed to the senate everyone call your reps now!!!” & it’s something that affects the entire world
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new poll. are you going to marry a passionate antistratfordian who nonetheless loves the works, or someone who doesn't like shakespeare at all but understands he was real
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puppy
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Nemesio Antúnez, Introducción al catálogo de la Primera Bienal Americana de Grabado, 1963.
Source: bibliotecanacionaldigital.gob.cl
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the passangerette
A comment from a video where a snake is displayed in a tub where it wouldn't be able to stretch its entire body.
Again, this is the problem with believing everything a person says in a confident manner. Of course someone keeping snakes in tiny racks is going to say that it's totally fine to keep a snake in a tiny rack.
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"HANDS OF LATHE WORKER"
MANZANAR RELOCATION CENTER
ANSEL ADAMS // CALIFORNIA, 1943
[gelatin silver print | U/D]
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Grad school is lying to you. You can indulge fixations on obscure topics on your own time. You can sit in a library color-coding notes on articles printed from JSTOR for free. You can argue with dead philosophers in essay format whenever you like. Academia is a state of mind.
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Exercises in Color Seminar taught by Wassily Kadinsky, studies concerning the affinity of line & color, color & form 1929-30
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Oscar Niemeyer's Canoe House
South of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, a pioneer in exploring the plastic possibilities of concrete, built a house for his family in which to live within the exuberant nature of the area.