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Details of Dionysos Statue

Dionysos, Hadrian-era marble sculpture, Roman civilisation, 2nd century AD.

(Roma, Museo Nazionale Romano Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme.)

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japanese artist kohei nawa filled a dark room with billowing clouds of foam for this art exhibition in Aichi ,Japan-autumn 2013.

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Mount Rose, February 2019

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Design for a spiraling staircase, Berlin

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jasmine tea, dark chocolate with sea salt, heavy perfumes, velvet scarves, powdery skin, clouds of sweet breath in cold air, eye contact with a handsome stranger across a metro cart, eyelashes fluttering against warm cheeks, spiced hot chocolate in gold trimmed mugs, ballets in the evening, soft curls the color of fresh coffee

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Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 - 1912)

The Finding of Moses

Unconscious Rivals

A Favourite Custom

Silver Favourites

The Roses of Heliogabalus

A Coign of Vantage

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Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles Directed by Neil Jordan (1994)

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Writing tips from Donna Tartt

Don’t expect perfection on your first draft. “You don’t know what you’re doing for a long time. It seems like a huge mess because it is a huge mess. If you looked at the notes from early on in the writing of this book, you’d think, “This person is crazy. This could never be a novel.” That’s how all my books have felt when I started writing them. Trying to explain them to people was like trying to explain a dream.” 

Read - a lot. “I read a lot while I’m writing. If I’m feeling dull or uninspired, I’ll often reach for a book of poetry:  often an anthology of British and American poets of the 20th century that I’ve had since high school and am superstitious about. At night, I like to read something completely different from what I’m working on, to get my mind off my work–Ivy Compton-Burnet is always bracing and fresh, and so is P.G. Wodehouse.”  Refine your technique.

“To be good at anything, whether dance or painting or Olympic diving, you have to be really, really attentive to detail. And you also have to be able to forget about technique in the heat of the moment – you have to know your technique so well that it’s second nature. But you never stop trying to refine it.” Stick to the routine that works for you - even if it makes you antisocial. “I try to avoid social engagements. It’s hard for me to socialize or see people while I’m working. I sleep irregular hours and eat irregular hours and don’t like to be interrupted to go have dinner with someone if my writing is going well. Sometimes even knowing that I have a dinner engagement in the evening will keep me from working well during the day. I DO have a number of exuberant email correspondents though–writing letters to people at the end of the day is often my way of winding down from a day of work.” 

Write at your own pace.

“There’s an expectation these days that novels—like any other consumer product—should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years. But it’s for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.”

Use your writing to escape from the real world.

“Staying with the same characters for so long is fun, it’s fun seeing how they evolve over time, being in the same world for a long time. Once I’m there I like to stay there. It’s an alternate life, it’s wonderful. Of course it’s escapist.”

Drink. “I like a glass of whiskey in the winter, I like a gin and tonic in the summer, I like a glass of champagne anytime.”

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guo pei couture autumn 2o19

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already well into november but i thought i’d post (with pdfs included of course) some things i read (& loved) in october b/c it was a hard month & these writings held my hand the whole way through 

‘by grand central station i sat down and wept,’ elizabeth smart (!)

‘life and death,’ andrea dworkin 

‘seam,’ tarfia faizullah (!) ((fixed link))

‘play it as it lays,’ joan didion 

‘war of the foxes,’ richard siken

‘midwinter day,’ bernadette mayer

‘in the pines,’ alice notley

‘death is not an option,’ suzanne rivecca (!)

‘the dead and the living,’ sharon olds

‘the melancholy of anatomy,’ shelley jackson

‘edinburgh,’ alexander chee

‘the woman destroyed,’ simone de beauvoir (!)

‘monster: poems,’ robin morgan

‘how we became human,’ joy harjo

‘ayiti,’ roxane gay (!) 

‘our andromeda,’ brenda shaughnessy

‘second childhood,’ fanny howe

‘the lady in the looking glass,’ virginia woolf

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Love stories don’t need to be about two lovers, love stories can be about friends, family, strangers or even yourself. Don’t limit your love, let it blossom and be shared. Dont let this dark world make you cold.

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Pandora (detail) Jules Joseph Lefebvre French, 1882 Oil on canvas

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looked up the rest of the painting and it’s lovely