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Virginia Woolf, The Waves

[kakfa]

the contents page of Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings by James Elkins

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[2productive]

[sirenofthegreenbanks]

this is from "research as a leisure activity" by celine nguyen, publs. on stubstack in 2024. it's a very good read

[sashayed]

has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing

[boomstab-papa]

[your-cosmic-creature]

“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

[angelicdewdrop]

[2productive]

[treecitysessions]

Real

[heartpdfs]

[achillesinhighheels]

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— Malia Makana, from “Like Differently Love.”

[poetic-questions]

—Anaïs Nin, "The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934"

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[lamignonette]

[kosmogrl]

[dailyrothko]

[dailyrothko]

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1970

Acrylic on canvas

Rothko’s last known painting before his suicide

A new scan replaces our old, do yourself a favor and blow it up here

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

[nobrashfestivity]

Died on this day

[recolored-classics]

Trees in Bloom (1872) by Claude Monet