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🍍 The Pomological magazine;. London;J. Ridgway.. Original source Image description: Historical botanical illustration of a ripe pineapple from “The Pomological Magazine,” London, dated November 1, 1827. The pineapple is shown in detail with its rough, diamond-patterned orange-brown skin and multiple individual eyes. The green spiky crown with sharp-edged leaves is attached at the top. The image highlights the fruit’s texture and natural form with precise, hand-colored shading on an aged, beige background.

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page 257 of “Narrative, of a five years’ expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777 : elucidating the history of that country, and describing its produc tions,

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Man of Sorrows, by Simon Marmion, c.1460.

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Madonna in Glory, Carlo Dolci 1665-1675.

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Piero di Cosimo - Portrait de Simonetta Vespucci as Cleopatra (c. 1480). Detail.

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Le Vampire (ou La Chauve-Souris) – 1903 ~ by Agathon Léonard

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[antiqueart]

Francisco de Goya - Witches’ Sabbath (detail)(1821-1823)

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[infected]

Vengeance is Sworn, Francesco Hayez, 1851

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[freelance-philosopher]

“Melancholy shadows everything in my life, but that, too, is an indescribable blessing.”

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Søren Kierkegaard in his journal.

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Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars

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“She lives in dreams, alone.”

— Virginia Woolf, from Complete Works

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Benedictine monastery Memleben, Crypt by Caledoniafan 

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“Two fears dominate this Gothic world, the fear of terrible separateness and the fear of unity with some terrible Other. They are embodied in two classic formulas of the ghost story: the heroine’s terrifying discovery that she is all alone and her subsequent discovery that -horror of horrors! - she is not alone.”

— Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic; Eugenia C. Delamotte (via fyeahgothicromance)