Giant Steppes

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest

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Tessarion being confused is one of the best things I've ever seen.

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“When you were last here,” said Aslan, “that hollow was a pool, and when you jumped into it you came to the world where a dying sun shone over the ruins of Charn. There is no pool now. That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.”

“Yes, Aslan,” said both the children. But Polly added, “But we’re not quite as bad as that world, are we, Aslan?”

“Not yet, Daughter of Eve,” he said. “Not yet. But you are growing more like it. It is not certain that some wicked one of your race will not find out a secret as evil as the Deplorable Word and use it to destroy all living things. And soon, very soon, before you are an old man and an old woman, great nations in your world will be ruled by tyrants who care no more for joy and justice and mercy than the Empress Jadis. Let your world beware.”

— C.S. Lewis - The Magician’s Nephew

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Vincent Price x food ads from the 60s and 70s

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Classic 70s-era recipe ideas: “your cuisine is boring; we can help”. Love the fact that they apparently went all-in on trying to teach people how to cook with Angostura bitters. I use quite enough of it in my cocktails; I don’t really feel the need for more ways to use it.

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Received the Hellenic Tarot for my birthday. Fascinated by some of the choices they made: Demeter as the Empress, Pan as Strength, Hermes as the Fool. Not the first associations I would make, but intriguing all the same. Persephone as death, the Moirai as the Wheel of Fortune, and Hecate as the Moon, on the other hand, are perfect, resonant choices.

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Little Red Riding Hood from 'My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales', illustrated by Jennie Harbour, 1921.

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Georgy Kurasov

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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

[macrolit]

Sunday shelfie, part 270

[nemfrog]

A bee covered in pollen. Basic studies in science. v.3. 1940. 

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Uncredited Photographer The Who, THE Mod Band, at Their Fist Gig After Changing Their Name from the High Numbers, the Marquee Club, London Nov, 1964

“Rock ‘n’ Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them.” Pete Townshend

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Eve (1908) by Solomon Joseph Solomon (British, 1860 – 1927), oil on canvas, 122 x 56 in. (310 x 142 cm.), Private Collection

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"The hermetic art is not attained by great variety of methods, the LAPIS is only one. There is only one eternal, unchangeable truth. It may appear under many different aspects; but in that case it is not the truth that changes: it is we who change our modes of conceiving of it.

The substance of which the ARCANUM is prepared should be pure, indestructible, and incombustible. It should be pure of grossly material elements, indestructible by doubt, and incapable of being burned up in the fire of passion.

Do not seek for the seed of the PHILOSOPHER'S STONE in the Elements. Only at the Centre of the fruit is that seed to be found."

— Axiomata Hermetica

Art: Albertus Magnus, De lapidibus, c. 1522-1566

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Lightnin' Hopkins in action...

Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982)