joycean

“He had not died but he had faded out like a film in the sun. He had been lost or had wandered out of existence for he no longer existed. How strange to think of him passing out of existence in such a way, not by death but by fading out in the sun or by being lost and forgotten somewhere in the universe!”

[luthienne]

Kathleen Graber, The Eternal City: Poems

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by P. A. Bien, from “Report To Greco,” publ. c. 1961

[meme-xx]

Full Moon (Aug. 2, 2020)

[alwfaa9]

[myfairylily]

[fairycosmos]

look. i don’t think my stretch marks are beautiful. i don’t think they’re tiger stripes or natural tattooos. i don’t think my acne is beautiful. i don’t think the bags under my eyes are beautiful. i just think they’re human. and i don’t think i have to be beautiful all of the time in order to be accepted and loved and sucessful. i don’t think every small detail of my outer appearence needs to be translated into prettiness.

[serotonin-sunrise]

fun fact: this POV is actually called “body neutrality” and it’s SO MUCH more accessible/realistic for a lot of people. it’s based on the idea that the way we look is the least interesting/important thing about who we are, and that our bodies are worthy of respect regardless if they fit the mold of the current beauty ideals.

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Paradise Lost: Book VI Line 406 - ‘Now Night Her Course Began..’ (1882 - Engraving / Color version) - Gustave Doré

[pansexualrevolutionary]

[vintagehomecollection]

A vestibule between living room and bedrooms. On the left is a fall-front desk made on the island in the 18th century; on the right, a dresser from the area, transformed to hold a collection of books about the sea.

The French Touch: Decoration and Design in the Most Beautiful Homes in France, 1988

[latinoking]

Coleen Theisen “fore-edge painting is a way of hiding a painting on the edge of book so that it can only be seen when the pages are fanned out.”

[hauntedgardenbook]

The beautiful garden in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992, directed by Francis Ford Coppola). Winona Ryder as Mina; Sadie Frost as Lucy. The garden was created on an MGM studio soundstage, the same one with the giant swimming pool where Esther Williams did many of her water extravaganzas. [Screenshots via http://screenmusings.org/, altered a bit by me to reveal background details.]

[wolfsmilk]

[bruwho]

[burcublog-deactivated20220125]

Seninle yaptığımız her savaşta, ilk ölen hep ben oluyorum.. Sen birazcık yaralansan, ben oluk oluk kanıyorum...

@burcublogsposts ✒

[wrappedallinwoe]

Manuscript of Bram Stoker’s Dracula playscript, from 1897.

[davidhudson]

Anton Chekhov, January 29, 1860 – july 15, 1904.

[sun-death]

“I recognize my friends by the shame I experience at the idea that they will read what I write… Whoever shames me is my friend.”

— Georges Bataille, cited by Milo Sweedler in The Dismembered Community: Bataille, Blanchot, Leiris, and the Remains of Laure