Pinched Wicks

I just want to be the best heathen I can be

[nevver]

All it ever does is rain, Charles Hoffbauer

[sloime]

[fagraklett]

Chinese emperor Ai of Han, fell in love with a minor official, a man named Dong Xian, and bestowed upon him great political power and a magnificent palace. Legend has it that one day while the two men were sleeping in the same bed, the emperor was roused from his sleep by pressing business. Dong Xian had fallen asleep across the emperor’s robe, but rather than awaken his peaceful lover, the Emperor cut his robe free at the sleeve. Thus “the passion of the cut sleeve” became a euphemism for same-sex love in China. — R.G.L.

[stillloontonne]

[magictransistor]

Johann Jakob Scheuchzer. Fenestra Coeli Apertae (The Windows of Heaven were Opened), Physica Sacra. 1731.

[pinched-wicks]

My bookstagram megapost For occasional bibliophilia follow ig: trentontrim

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The Second, Second Coming

I’m back on Tumblr. I guess the main thing that’s changed is that everything is the same, plus 3 times more books in my library and I shook hands with Bernie Sanders. 

[foreverlostinliterature]

[pinched-wicks]

#NowPlaying Gibraltar by Beirut mmm that upbeat percussion and optimistic-yet-deadpan delivery

[liartownusa]

You Can Fuck Anything in Heaven Church Poster

[kehelly]

just a fashionable dude taking a stroll.

(walk cycle frame by frame test)

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#NowPlaying Fell In the Sun by Big Grams

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#NowPlaying Bless This Morning Year by Helios

[kingdom-visions]

[macrolit]

Spotlight on vintage Modern Library books

[epic]