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"Witches Preparing for Sabbath", designed by Dutch artist Jacques de Gheyn II circa 1610.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The scene depicts witches preparing magical ointments to fly, with symbolic details such as figures riding winged dragons and demonic creatures.

The work is often attributed to the engraver Andries Stock, who translated De Gheyn's drawing into print.

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Françoise Hardy candidly snapped perched on a stool in cool-weather textiles, 1965.

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Dafni Planta

Hiding in plain sight

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“…how I still, sometimes, crave understanding.”

— Mary Oliver, from Long Life: Essays And Other Writings (via violentwavesofemotion)

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IN CRISIS, THE SOUL IS VISIBLE.

Euripides, Grief Lessons: Four Plays (Anne Carson)

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Sophocles, from "Electra: A Tragedy," translated by Anne Carson

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SOURCE MATERIAL: Wikipedia entry for Laius / L'Être et le Néant, Jean-Paul Sartre / Allégorie du Temps gouverné par la prudence, Titien / Les Saturnales, Macrobe / The Saturnalia, Thomas Whittaker / Oedipus Cursing His Son Polynices, Henry Fuseli / Oedipus Rex, Sophokles / Oedipus At Canolus, Sophokles / Antigonick, Anne Carson.

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translations of Sappho (from Sappho’s Lyre by Diane J. Rayor / Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson)

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"Eros comes out of nowhere, on wings, to invest the lover, to deprive his body of vital organs and material substance, to enfeeble his mind and distort its thinking, to replace normal conditions of health and sanity with disease and madness. The poets represent eros as an invasion, an illness, an insanity, a wild animal, a natural disaster. His action is to melt, break down, bite into, burn, devour, wear away, whirl around, sting, pierce, wound, poison, suffocate, drag off or grind the lover to a powder." — Anne Carson, from 'Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay'

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