an errand that should never rest

 Biochemistry and classics. Obsessed with Tolkien above all else; also into Star Trek (all of it) and other trash. Main blog is technically heartandhoof (now redirects here).

[historylovers]

Author-Félix Thiollier.

Date: c. 1899.

Location: France (?)

I find this photo amazing.

[post--grad]

The narrator…has here become a fragmented and tortured person, wracked by anxiety, freely admitting to a bout of mental illness, and at the same time still confident he can produce an ambitious and lengthy, if final, poetic project in English.

Vickie Larsen & John Pendell, “Thomas Hoccleve’s Series and English Verse in Early Fifteenth-Century London.” Philological Quarterly 97.4 (2018).

[ofallingstar]

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (2015)

[coldsuggestion]

A man unrequitedly in love will stand outside your home and knock, throw, kick, holler, relentless in pursuit. Foreign to the idea of a space he is unwelcome in. A woman unrequitedly in love will sit. She’s far away from your house. She knows it’s not for her. She will wait, she has gifts prepared if she is ever invited in. She has herself prepared if she’s not.

[antigonick]

—the aesthetic cult of ladylike fragility and delicate beauty—no doubt associated with the moral cult of the angel-woman—obliged ‘genteel’ women to ‘kill’ themselves into art objects: slim, pale, passive beings whose ‘charms’ eerily recalled the snowy, porcelain immobility of the dead.

Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, “The Queen’s looking glass: female creativity, male images of women, and the metaphor of literary paternity”, in The Madwoman in the Attic

[fashion-runways]

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[nsphotographs]

www.nicoleschultzphotography.com

[polishpaintersonly]

“Great Figures From Poland’s Past” (1939) by Jan Henryk Rosen (Polish;1891-1982)

The Polish Museum of America

[i-sparkling-star]

[dreamyfilms]

bless

[shesonlylittle]

Elizabeth: I will not be caught dead doing anything Darcy finds attractive

Darcy: *adds ‘will not do anything I find attractive’ to the list of things he finds attractive*

[mohtz]

when you grow but the walls around you stay the same

[met-islamic-art]

Coin, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Islamic Art

Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Gold

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Equestrian portrait of Stanisław Kostka Potocki (1781, detail) Jacques-Louis David (1748 - 1825)

[cutinessfood]

misakosweets

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Michael Gira, The Consumer (1996)

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michael gira worked in a bakery 

[itchycoil]

I am screeching

[mostbeautifulgirlscaps]

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The Temple of Hatshepsut glows at sunset 

Hatshepsut’s temple is one of the world’s most striking architectural masterpieces, but perhaps even more noteworthy is the woman who commissioned it.

Photograph by Kenneth Garrett, National Geographic Creative