Artyomushka

Polyglot horse riding nomad ~ смерть миру .

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FANTASIA (1940)

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Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Early Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3. (1923-1927)

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Ruslana, the Ukrainian Eurovision Winner of 2004 was in Athens, Greece on November 17th and visited the memorial for the students of Polytechneion for the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic Uprising.

Translated from Ruslana’s official facebook page:

In Athens, she laid flowers at the memorial in honor of Polytechnic students who gave their lives for freedom and democratic values. Today is International Students’ Day all over the world, but in Greece this date is special because it marks the anniversary of the student protests against the military junta of the “black colonels” in 1973. Polytechnic students barricaded themselves in the walls of the university as a sign of protest against the regime, and in the early hours of November 17, the country’s government ordered tanks to attack the university. Around 3:00 a.m. on November 17, AMX 30 breached the main gate of the university’s campus. 24 people died as a result of the clashes… Unfortunately, history tends to repeat itself…

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Soviet posters expressing support for the Greek people during the Regime of the Colonels (1967-1974).

Translation: “The people of Hellas will win!”, “Greece, today.”, “Freedom to Greek Democrats!”

[unsterbliche--geliebte]

I bought this as a present to my boyfriend. It's a russian edition of Beethoven's 9th symphony, from 1953. ♡

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Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West

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A woman feeds her baby in a Belgrade bomb shelter after air raid sirens went of May 8. 1999.

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Grave of Caroline Christine Walter, Freiburg Old Cemetery. She died aged 17 in 1867 and every day since then a mystery donor has left flowers on her grave.

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Theo Angelopoulos' encounter with Andrei Tarkovsky:

“Once, in Rome, I was staying in the same apartment building with Andrei Tarkovsky. He was shooting Nostalghia (1983) at the time. And we talked about 'nostalgia', the concept and feeling, and he tried to tell me it was a Russian word, but of course I explained it was a Greek word, ‘nostos’, meaning homecoming. So we argued over whether it was Russian or Greek! Finally, he said, ‘Excuse me, I did not know it was a Greek word, but you see, nostalgia is so deeply a part of the Russian soul and spirit, that I feel it is we who developed it!’ And so it is for Greeks.”

"What do our souls seek?": an interview with Theo Angelopoulos, Andrew Horton (1995)

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Αρκαδία χαίρε | Hail Arcadia (Filippos Koutsaftis, 2015)

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https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc_bDbgP7GZ

[amadryades]

“Language is what eases the pain of living with other people, language is what makes the wounds come open again. I have heard that anthropologists prize those moments when a word or bit of language opens like a keyhole into another person, a whole alien world roars past in some unarranged phrase. You remember Proust so appaled when Albertine lets fall “get her pot broken”.”

— Anne Carson, The Anthropology of Water

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The Red Book: Liber Novus, Carl G. Jung, 1914-1930.

[derangedrhythms]

[...] there is no light without shadow and no psychic wholeness without imperfection. To round itself out, life calls not for perfection but for completeness; and for this the “thorn in the flesh” is needed, the suffering of defects without which there is no progress and no ascent.

Carl Gustav Jung, The Collected Works of C. G. Jung Volume 12: Psychology & Alchemy; from ‘Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy’, tr. R. F. C. Hull

[terpsikeraunos]

one sometimes sees claims in modern literature that “the ancient greeks had no term for the color blue,” but that is misleading. it’s true that ancient greek did not have a generic term for blue as we understand it, but there were many specific terms; these, like other color terms in ancient greek, often assigned more importance to the brightness or darkness of the color than to its hue.

ἀέρινος, aerial; light blue or grey γλαυκός, gleaming; later, of eyes, blue or grey καλάινος, turquoise-colored κυάνεος, dark-blue, glossy, (of the swallow, the deep sea); dark or black οὐράνιος, heavenly; sky-blue χαροπότης, bright; light blue; sky blue

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Japanese schoolgirls pray beside the graves of unknown soldiers on the 30th anniversary of the Russo-Japanese War, 1934