Icy Johnson

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Poem Title: Intoxicate Yourself!

Book Title: Little Poems in Prose

Author: Charles Baudelaire, trans. by Aleister Crowley

Year: 1928

Drawings: Jean de Boscherre

Press: Black Manikin (by Edward W. Titus)

City: Paris

For original french, see here

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Zoë

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𝐉𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐒

𝐛𝐲 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐀 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐈

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“You See Us As You Want To See Us, In The Simplest Terms With The Most Convenient Definitions. But What We Found Out Is That Each One Of Us Is A Brain... And An Athlete... And A Basket Case... A Princess... And A Criminal. Does That Answer Your Question? Sincerely Yours... The Breakfast Club.”

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📍 Mentally I’m here…

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Source: monaris

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📍 Bushwick, Brooklyn

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📍 Prince Street. Soho, NYC

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PEOPLE IN OTHER ROOMS (HARLEM STREET SCENE)

- Jacob Lawrence, 1975

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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”

― Jeanette Winterson

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'Once Upon a Time in America' (1984) Sergio Leone

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📍 Paris

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Peony with Butterfly

Johann Christoph Bayer, c. 1760.

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