on this godless rock that refuses to die

[gnossienne]

Detail of Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes (c. 1607)

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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alisa gorshenina

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And it was here, one summer day, I sat down to read an old book. When I looked up from the noon-lit page, I saw a vision of a world about to come, and a world about to go.

Li-Young Lee, from “Visions and Interpretations,” Rose: Poems (BOA Editions, Ltd., 1986)

[emmanuelleriva]

La Collectionneuse (1967) dir. Éric Rohmer

[oldmoonlullaby]

perle&dantelle

[halogenic]

Olafur Eliasson - The Weather Project (2003), ph. Peter Marlow

[vampsandflappers]

Elisabeth Bergner for Dona Juana (1927) 

[water-aesthetics]

[angelhive]

Quipu (also spelled khipu), or talking knots, are recording devices fashioned from strings historically used by a number of cultures in the region of Andean South America.

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Rebecca Tamás, from Poems; “Witch,” originally published c.  2019

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Margaret Atwood, from “The Testaments,” released c. September 2019

[weltenwellen]

Tony Hoagland, from “Peaceful Transition”, What Narcissism Means to Me

[weltenwellen]

Leah Umansky, from “Woman Carrying Everything”

[decatris]

[angelicliss]

[victorianchap]

two Edwardian women fencing 1908