the gorgon's cry

and you'll get there too late or never [a blog for the unseen]

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The Essence of Silence (Detail)   by Anato Finnstark

[requiem-on-water]

Д е м о н ы by Nina Ippolitova (Shirø Igarashi)

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Amélie Christiaen | ig

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Thetogfather

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The Color of Pomegranates (1969)

dir. Sergei Parajanov

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Detail : Spring Scattering Stars, 1927, by Edwin Blashfield.

[sad-house-of-mortality]

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by jacindaelenas

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[sartorialadventure]

Fairy Queen costume, Iolanthe, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1977. Designed by Bruno Santini

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by Billelis 💀

[sixpenceee]

The following pieces of morbid art are by Nicola Samori, a 35 year old Italian artist. He says “My work stems from fear: fear of the body, of death, of men. I think my nature as an artist is something like feeling hopeless. Works are just temporary shelters and painting is a leisure place where you can conceal yourself.”

[star-divination]

The Signs + Anaïs Nin

Aries: “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

Taurus: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

Gemini: “Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. That is a kind of death.”

Cancer: “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

Leo: “I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go.”

Virgo: “We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.”

Libra: “You cannot save people. You can only love them.”

Scorpio: “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”

Sagittarius: “Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another.”

Capricorn: “I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ.”

Aquarius: “There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our own life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”

Pisces: “I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”

[divine-peach]

“Tell the king; the fair wrought house has fallen No shelter has Apollo, nor sacred laurel leaves The fountains are now silent; the voice is stilled. It is finished.”                                                

                                     - The final recorded words of the last Oracle of Delphi, 395 AD

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by Courtney Brooke Hall on Flickr.