failing early, failing often

M N, Melbourne "remembering scents, grasping at door-handles"

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Dancing with the Incas (Cohen, 1992)

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Found photo (1962)

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“Life! My God, what is it: Remembering scents, grasping at door-handles. You walk past faces and at night feel the rain in your hair. And that’s doing quite well. ‌‌‌     Then behind them a locomotive cried out like a giant child utterly homesick. And it made the night into night. Then a freight train rattled harshly past the men. And it snarled like danger through the silken, star-studded night. The men b‌‌reathed sturdily against it.”

Extract from Wolfgang Borchert’s The City (1947)

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Breton stone cottage, Finistere, Brittany.

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Les anneaux de Bicêtre (Grospierre, 1977)

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Je vous salue, Marie (Godard, 1985)

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Details from Gustave Doré's illustration of The Judgment of Solomon (Kings 3:16-28) (1866)

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Benvenuto Tisi, called Il Garofalo The beheading of Saint Bartholomew

1549

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Still from Jaromil Jires' Sál ztracenych kroku (1960)

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Charles Clifford, Portal, Mendoza Palace, Guadalajara (1856)

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Illustration from Salomon de Caus' La Perspective, Avec la Raison des ombres et miroirs (1612)

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Cornelis Engebrechtsz, Lamentation of Christ (left panel) (1515-20) (detail)

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Juan Laurent, Vista de la Alhambra y de Granada desde el Sacromonte (c. 1885)

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Friedrich Herlin, High Altar at St. James's Church, Rothenburg ob der Tauber (1466) (detail)