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[karate-blues]

Charles Sims - Study for "Man's Last Pretence of Consummation in Indifference"

[karate-blues]

Charles Sims, "Man's Last Pretence of Consummation in Indifference"

[ubu507]

A Spiritual Idea Charles Sims (1873–1928) Bethlem Museum of the Mind

[bebemoon]

detail of ‘the fountain’ by charles sims .

[psikonauti]

Charles Sims (British, 1873-1928)

I Am the Abyss and I Am Light,1928

Tempera on canvas

[sanstoitniloi]

"You survive this and in some terrible way, which I suppose no one can ever describe, you are compelled, you are corralled, you are bullwhipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you. And what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, that is not what’s important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less."

- James Baldwin, The Artist's Struggle for Integrity

[sacredwhores]

Lav Diaz - Jesus the Revolutionary (2002)

[sacredwhores]

Jacques Rivette - Joan the Maid II: The Prisons (1994)

[apolo-cacho]

Butoh dancer floating in the air. Adaptation from Suzuki Shōnen 鈴木松年 (1849-1918), Moon in the Clouds, one of my favourite paintings.

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

I once read in a book by a German writer that people who choose not to eat breakfast are trying to avoid contact with the day so as not to enter fully into it because it is only through that second awakening, that of the stomach, that you can entirely leave behind you the darkness and the nocturnal realm, and it is only once you have arrived safe and sound on the other shore that you can allow yourself to recount what you dreamed without bringing down calamities upon yourself, since, if you do so before you have broken your fast, you are still under the sway of the dream and you betray it with your words, thus exposing yourself to its vengeance. And you tell it as if you were still asleep.

– Javier Marías, The Man of Feeling

[tonysopranosmom]

i love charlie brown so much. what a miserable little child.

[butterflypeaflowertea]

Charlie Brown, undaunted, seeks tenderness and fulfillment on every side: in baseball, in building kites, in his relationship with his dog, Snoopy, in playing with the girls. He always fails. His solitude becomes an abyss, his inferiority complex is pervasive—tinged by the constant suspicion (which the reader also comes to share) that Charlie Brown is not inferior. Worse: he is absolutely normal. He is like everybody else. This is why he is always on the brink of suicide or at least of nervous breakdown: because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives...

– Umberto Eco, On ‘Krazy Kat’ and ‘Peanuts’

[boredpanda]

[born2lurk]

Dance notations from the 18th century

[hipinuff]

Odilon Redon (French: 1840 -1916), The Dream, 1904. Oil on canvas, 56 x43 cm.

[karate-blues]

favorite books?

hi! that's a tuff one…for fiction i like lyrical stuff and/or melodramatic stuff. rly liked margery kempe by robert gluck, also currently reading our lady of the flowers by genet and diggin that. ty fr askingg

[fabionardini]

Fuchsia Necklace designed by Alphonse Mucha and made by jeweler Gorges Fouquet in opal, cabochon sapphire, pearl, and gold (1905)

(via Pin de Susan Lemmon)

[guronyan-deactivated20231026]

Alphonse Mucha, details from the poster for Medée.