dismember the world & dance in the wreckage

my song was out of tune, my voice was cracked, but at least no chorus can ever sing it back

[literatuer]

Mikhail Bulgakov, A Dead Man’s Memoir.

[hauntedgardenbook]

Edwin Smith (English, 1912-1971). The Garden of Schloss Benrath, Near Dusseldorf, Germany, 1961. Silver gelatin print.

[dostevsky]

“True myth may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero — really look — and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. ‘You must change your life,’ he said. When true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, “Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction”, PARABOLA, Vol. 1 No. 4: Rites of Passage, Fall 1976

[sa2ha]

Malcolm T. Liepke

[starswaterairdirt]

Sun Rays, 1889

Alfred Stieglitz

[inneroptics]

Menerva Tau

[dammitperseus]

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[bloodofelves]

Irithyll of the Boreal Valley

[periodladiesreading]

[marmarinos]

Detail of a Roman statue of Aphrodite (or Venus), 2nd century CE. Marble.

[adrasteiax]

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”

— Guy de Maupassant, from “Suicides,” Le Gaulois (29 August 1880)

[cartomaniac]

[themaleinch]

Riz Ahmed photographed by Lorenzo Agius for Telegraph Magazine UK, February 2010

[sesiondemadrugada]

The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, 2017).

[lifeinpoetry]

The wolf finally frees itself,

which is to say the body is not a body & simply an-

other curvature. It is acceptable to grieve, but only when the vessel

is found anomalous. Lacking.

— Brianna Albers, from “The Wolf Finally Frees Itself” published in The Offing

[heathultimate]

▪ Heath Ledger photographed by Greg Gorman as Casanova, in Venice, 2004.

[studiofiftyfour]

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)