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A sombre, yet beautiful and peaceful gloom here pervaded all things. The trees were dark in color, and mournful in form and attitude, wreathing themselves into sad, solemn, and spectral shapes that conveyed ideas of mortal sorrow and untimely death.

Edgar Allan Poe, The Penguin Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe; from ‘The Island of the Fay'

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Memento Mori on the Maiden’s Tomb in St Mary’s Churchyard, Perivale

#burial places #memento mori #skulls & skeletons

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The antlers of a Schomburgk's deer, a now-extinct species from Thailand By: Unknown photographer From: Brehms Tierleben - Allgemeine kunde des Tierreichs 1911

#deer

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T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf

#t. s. eliot #virginia woolf

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Penny Dreadful

#penny dreadful

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Nara / 奈良, Japan, (A Hand of A Wooden Statue of Buddha ), November 8, 1968, André Kertész.

#u

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#death #deer #ice & snow

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Marie Magdalene’s skull, reliquary by sculptor Didron, from the drawing of the architect Henri Révoil, basilica Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France, 1860

#reliquary

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Stephen Crane (born Newark, NJ, 1 November 1871 – 5 June 1900)

#stephen crane

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Photograph taken in Karascond Church, Hungary, in 1989. The vision of the Virgin Mary and Jesus was not seen by the photographer through his lens as the picture was taken, but it was seen by Karoly Ligeti, an art restoration specialist who was working on the scaffolding above.

—Brad Steiger, Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places

#places of worship

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Snowflake on a crow’s wing.

Photo by Shawn Bergman.

#corvidae #crow #ice & snow

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Constant Puyo :: Le Vase mystique, 1900 [detail]. Tirage à la gomme bichromatée. Signé à l'encre en bas à droite avec un tampon à sec. | src Sotheby's

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#constant puyo #u

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In Rebecca Comay’s essay on Proust she talks about how Proust’s body, even after his death, maintained a certain youthfulness. The writer François Mauriac noted “the preternatural youthfulness of the corpse”: “Laid out on his bed, one would not have thought that he was fifty years old, but barely thirty, as if Time didn’t dare touch him who had tamed and vanquished it.” Paul Helleu, an artist, recorded: “Oh! It was horrible, but how handsome he was! He hadn’t eaten for five months, except for café au lait. You can’t imagine how beautiful … can be the corpse of a man who hasn’t eaten for such a long time; everything superfluous is dissolved away. Ah, he was handsome…” Man Ray’s portrait of Proust on his deathbed aids this interpretation; like a waxwork, without wrinkles, already a death mask.”

#marcel proust #man ray