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“A book,” he said louder, “is a door in, and therefore a door out.—I see old Sir Up’ard,” he went on, closing his eyes, “and my heart swells with love to him:—what world is he in?”

“The world of your heart!” I replied; “—that is, the idea of him is there.”

“There is one world then at least on which your hall-door does not open?”

“I grant you so much; but the things in that world are not things to have and to hold.”

“Think a little farther,” he rejoined: “did anything ever become yours, except by getting into that world?—The thought is beyond you, however, at present!—I tell you there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!”

- George MacDonald, Lilith

[victusinveritas]

Jesus Carried up to the Pinnacle of the Temple - James Tissot, 1895.

[halobearerhavoc]

ava's "holy shit" line when reya pulls a mesmer on her but it's a reenactment of the memory of her mom saying the same thing to the approaching headlights of the oncoming vehicle

[fawnaura]

“There is no image I could invent that your presence would not eclipse.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from Book of Hours, tr. by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy

[halobearerhavoc]

"Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things." - Austin Osman Spare

Escaping Criticism by Pere Borrell del Caso, 1874, Madrid, Spain

"I want you to know something. Something that no one else knows. On the other side, the nature of life is different from here. If I can stop Adriel, I may not come back. But a part of me will always exist. You made that happen when you built the Arc for me, and I stepped through. So please know... that wherever I am, until the end of time... I will always love you, Mum." - Michael

"Oh, you speak French?" - Ava, to Beatrice

"Trompe-l'œil (French for 'deceive the eye') is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface. Trompe l'œil, which is most often associated with painting, tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or spaces as real. Forced perspective is a related illusion in architecture." - wiki

"I'm tired of being in prison!" - Michael

"Trompe-l’œil is French for ‘deceiving the eye’, and that is exactly what Pere Borrell del Caso tries to do. The boy – as a subject for a traditional portrait – steps out of the painting looking to the outside world with amazement." - sizeofart.com

[eurigmorgan]

The passer-through-walls (Le Passe-muraille) sculpture in the Paris Catacombs.

[heartpeacenquiet]

[halobearerhavoc]

wn was clever in doing away with the beyond rote "staircase to heaven" and replacing it with a big concrete ramp. there's the earliest known image of yhwh on his wheeled throne that to modern eyes resembles a wheelchair. there's ava's old dreamboard from the orphanage that shows a wheelchair overlooking the sea. her joy at riding around on jillian's exorbitantly expensive wheelchair. ava's disability wasn't the real obstacle for her, it was the utter lack of accommodation surrounding it that caused her suffering. so i do like the message that using that big slab sends, even though i'm sure there were also other reasons for that design choice

wn created a disabled main character, gave her deity symbolism, and then made sure that the path to "heaven" was handicap accessible. it's kinda neat, and i wish we'd gotten an ending that could have paid off the subtle hints of how things would have eventually been for ava once she was free to actually live her own life

[mysterious-secret-garden]

William Blake - The Soul Hovering Over the Body (from ‘Marriage of Heaven and Hell,’ plate 14), c. 1796.

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[halobearerhavoc]

wn characters behind bars; visual metaphor for the gnostic philosophy of materiality as prison:

and a bonus pun:

[codeofbushido43-blog]

Raimund Von Stillfried, Kusakabe Kimbei, Kozaburo Tamamura. 1870-1880.

[random-brushstrokes]

Bill Griffin (Irish, b. 1947) - Remembering

[aqua-regia009]

The Temptation of Sir Percival, 1894 - oil on canvas — Arthur Hacker (British, 1858-1919)

[enchantedbook]

Ezio Anichini. Firenze 1886–1948

[halobearerhavoc]

my best guess is that beatrice would have been in new zealand in s3. traveling all over, but in waikato to be precise. the antipode of córdoba and the "other side" of the earth. if wn is a chiasmic story, and ava passing through the arc is a midpoint and switch from pro to deuteragonist, it might be that the other half takes place as a reflection of where the majority of s1&2 did. and beatrice now plays the role of the fool exploring a new world, and ava plays the jaded soldier who has seen too much

[didoofcarthage]

The Divine Eros Defeats the Earthly Eros by Giovanni Baglione

Italian, c. 1602

oil on canvas

Gemäldegalerie

[halobearerhavoc]

"you can't just be dragged to hell, can you? that's not a thing is it?" idk ask proserpina