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literature and art blog. Hamlet Act III, Scene iii, ll 87.

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A reticulated white jade ‘pine and crane’ plaque, Qing dynasty, 18th century.

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mourning jewelry, popularized during the victorian era "hair, considered to be a remnant of the person it was cut from, also has often played a part in myths and legends; in a swedish book of proverbs, one can read that 'rings and bracelets of hair increase love.'"

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A beautiful dagger with a crystal hilt, attributed to Peter Munich, Solingen, Germany, 1649, housed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

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Marlene Dietrich's cigarette case, a gift from Josef von Sternberg. Malachite, lapis lazuli, gold (inside), diamonds, c.1930s

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Hands of Saint Ginés de la Jara (detail), about 1692, Luisa Roldán. Polychromed wood (pine and cedar) with glass eyes

Getty Museum

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Ernest Lefébure. ‘Embroidery and Lace: Their Manufacture and History from the Remotest Antiquity to the Present Day.’ London: Grevel, 1888.

Cover art by May Morris.

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[Source]

God this is a gorgeous way to start a book. I wish more authors and publishers had at least a little bit of fun with their typesetting like this.

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Autun, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 0269, f. 170v. Book of Hours, use of Autun (Heures de Philibert Pillot). Autun, c.1480-1490. St Catherine of Siena.

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fuck the makeup industry and marketable beauty standards and all that but eyeliner isn't even makeup it's like a guardian angel to me

[valtsv]

literally my guardian angel who protects me from the elements and evil spirits

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Kohl or Surma has been believed to be worn since before 3100 BCE, in the Protodynastic period of Egypt by Egyptian queens and noble women. Different versions of the word have been found in Arabic, Persian, Greek, Latin, Azerbaijan which led to the Urdu word Surma or the Bengali word Kajol.

But what really was it back then in ancient Egypt? Egyptians used Stibnite, which is a sulphide of antimony. Antimony (Sb) is an element and it's ore is a sulphide of antimony called Stibnite.

Surma was never worn for aesthetic purposes to begin with, it has its roots in medicine. Surma was worn/ applied as a preventative and also curative medicine for eye ailments. Some of the most popular benefits of Surma are -

Blocks UV rays

Boosts Nitric Oxide in eyes which is

Anti-microbial

Vasodilation (good blood flow in eye)

Intraocular Pressure (lowers this which is a primary cause for glaucoma)

The real Ithmid Surma - origin, science, history and its benefits!

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Uzbekistan, Samarkand.🇺🇿

Registan Square…

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Cildo Meireles: Volátil (1994)

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Hexagonal Tea Box with Fucus (Algae) Decoration. Designed by Lucien Bonvallet and made between 1902 and 1911 in Paris, France. Medium is embossed solid silver coated with an iridescent black finish. Musée d'Orsay inventory number: OAO 1882.

(Source: musee-orsay.fr)

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Production of Hamlet where during the play scene Hamlet sets up a projector and puts on the Lion King

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Sometimes I read stuff and I just wanna shake someone like "WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS"

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Y'all this is not a precursor to an atomic theory of physics. This is entirely different. This is a phonetic theory of physics.

Jabir is not making a metaphor here. He is saying that each of the individual qualities of a substance are themselves a divine letter in the name of that substance. For example. Fire is hot, dry, produces light, and is corporeal. Therefore, (F) = Heat, (I) = dryness, (R) = luminosity, (E) = corporeality.

Now he's not necessarily referring to literal Arabic letters (although he kinda is), he's basically making the claim that the underlying structure of reality is linguistic.

[madmonksandmaenads]

Isn't this similar to the hard ontological argument for Mathematics? That mathematics is a fundamental language of physics that humans discovered, as opposed to a created tool of humanity that only explains reality.

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Similar but no! Jabir is straight up claiming that divine language is itself prior to mathematics. Numbers are themselves Jabirian Letters, and their logic is determined by divine grammar and spelling.

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sophie prestigiacomo's swamp deities, sculpted from mud and algae

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— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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actually, i should just say this in its own post--if you're ever looking for a translation of anything ancient greek, ian johnston has a ton of translations that are both genuinely good and completely free to read. a lot of the time free translations are really old or just not that good but this man has translated, like, everything from homer to sophocles to kafka to nietzche and he's done it extremely well. i didn't think he had an antigone but i just looked and not only does he have one but it's genuinely very good. so i highly recommend his website as a resource!