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dead cities, red seas, & lost ghosts

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my phone in #2016

[literaturereads]

"And Cain says, “When you split me and my brother in the womb, you did not divide us evenly. He got kindness, and I got longing. He got complacence, and I got ambition. I want to kill him sometimes. I think sometimes he wants to die.”

- Nathaniel Orion, "Hevel"

[metamorphesque]

― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (translated by George Reavy)

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14th century Jewish prayer in the shape of a dragon

[nemfrog]

Dates due starting in 1902.

source

[homersliliad]

the eyes never lie

[therepublicofletters]

Decorated pages from the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale University

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Agostino Arrivabene

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[frankencain]

forever and always insane about the fact that haunting means "heimsuchen" in german which literally translates to "homeseeking". a haunting is a search for a home you can never return to

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[homersliliad]

#AccidentalRenaissance

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[starrywisdomsect]

Jan Švankmajer’s Castle of Otranto (1977) is an animated adaptation of Horace Walpole’s 1764 novel of the same name. This novel is credited with the start of the genre of gothic fiction, and was heavily influential on the horror genre as a whole.

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[mournfulroses]

T. S. Eliot, from The Complete Works of T. S. Eliot; "The Confidential Clerk,"