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[weltenwellen]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[dozydawn]

Peter Wright’s production of Giselle, 2011. Starring Helen Crawford as Myrtha and Marianela Nuñez as Giselle. Photographed by Robbie Jack.

[sorrrowfull]

[kvetchlandia]

William Gale Gedney Girl Sitting on Windowsill, Kentucky 1964

[jinxproof]

'The Goth Files' | © Corinne Day Vogue Nippon (November 2006)

[ofallingstar]

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

[soft-lovely]

the art of book covers

[blackcoffeestudies]

Mutual fascination is always a risky business. Lacan suggests that it is the consequence of an imaginary identification in which the self strives to incorporate the other in an act as aggressive as it is loving. It is never clear who, snake or snake charmer, is mesmerized by whom.

Elizabeth Grosz, Jacques Lacan: A feminist introduction

[primulaceas]

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[hungryfictions]

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[naldibutnice]

What She Is Made Of by Nell Brinkley, 1935

[mournfulroses]

Charlotte Brontë, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Charlotte Brontë

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[vintage-russia]

"Angel of sorrow " (1899/1901)

Mikhail Nesterov (1862-1942)

[divinevivienleigh]

Vivien Leigh in Romeo and Juliet, 1940

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[terrorignitis]

Discerning spirits: divine and demonic possession in the middle ages | Nancy Caciola