Antediluvian Angel

A ridiculously old-fashioned blog of an antediluvian girl. Antiquarian, history buff, bibliophile, Romanticist, practicing polymath, clairsentient, and aspiring librarian. Neanderthal queen. 

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Does anyone think that someday I might have the chance of making a profit on my artwork? I promise the flower one looks so much better in person. Haha.

The flower one is oil on canvas, and the house is oil on a wooden plague.

I definitely need to improve, but I’ve gotten a few requests from some people already, albeit no commissions. I was thinking about maybe selling some art as well as other things on Etsy. What do you all think?

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Crow babies are important

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Somehow it never occurred to me that crows start out as babies.

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This is a CORNCRAKE chick!

Not a a baby crow! These do not even resemble baby crows, and the corncrake is not even related to the common crow or any corvid!

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I wish there was someone out there that would send me books all the time. Like a book benefactor or something..

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“Oh, you’s fancy.”

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Which world do I want to escape into today?

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Hello. This is a PSA. This place I work in is a BOOKSHOP. A place where you go SHOPPING for books. You look at them, you choose them, and then you buy them. It’s sad, I know… books and money and capitalism and free arts and all that wonderful stuff, but, unfortunately, we have to eat and pay rent...

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I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via feellng)

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Does anyone else have a really contradictory personality? Like sometimes all I want to do is live in a log cabin, fish and grow my own food, and walk barefoot through the forest.

But other times, I just want to sew beautiful dresses, and adorn my house with antiques, and have the largest library to read and drink tea in.

My life is just not going to work out…

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Astra inclinant, sed non obligant.

Latin Phrase meaning “The stars incline us, they do not bind us.”  (via chakrasandchaos)

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Mozart, Sinfonia concertante for Flute, Oboe, Horn, Bassoon and Orch. in E flat, K.297B (App. ♫♫ Reconstr. Robert Levin ♫♫ 2. Adagio

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Born In The Wrong Century

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Jean-Marc Nattier, Marie-Geneviève Boudrey, as a muse, 1747

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"Genteel behavior…always reflected the belief that somewhere a glorious circle existed where life was lived at the highest and best, where fashions were set, where true gentility was achieved, where perfect harmony, grace and beauty could be found…Talleyrand would one day quip, "Celui n’a pas vecu avant 1789 ne connait pas la douceur de vivre." (He who did not live before 1789 does not know the gentle way of life.) The remark captured the powerful lure of an imaginary, lost world, that glorious circle somewhere out there, where true harmony, grace and beauty had existed in all their magnificence. Some Americans had traveled to that place and could report back on it wonders. Hard as they worked to build a replica, it nevertheless remained an imitation: just the play of shadows on a wall."

- When the United States Spoke French

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François Boucher, Lovers in a Park, 1758, oil on canvas, 232.4 x 194.9 cm, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego. Source

You know how it is: one minute you’re taking a romantic, barefoot stroll in the park with your handsome lover; the next, he stops midway through weaving flowers into your hair to stare at a pretty little milkmaid. Typical.

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