DRUNKEN VENUS

— if we knew what antinous knew, we would understand the ancient world

[labelleboheme]

[cailleboat-blog]

A woman wades through water hyacinths on a pond near New Orleans. 

[kissedbythevoid]

[saintjoan]

William-Adolphe Bouguereau — Portrait of Madame la Comtesse de Cambacérès (detail)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Paul Celan, from his poem titled “Tenebrae,” featured in Selected Poems & Prose [x]

[sugurs]

bora aksu spring 2005

[faeriest]

[antigonick]

Do you have any favorite books of myths or folktales?

You have quite a few suggestions about greek and roman myth-related works in this post and this one. I personally love Metamorphoses by Ovid, The Poetic Edda by Snorri Sturluson, and the alarming, lurking folktales of the Brittany coast (click, click), Scotland (click, click) and Ireland (click) (this same lurking, threatening, faceless entity, creeping behind cliffs and heath, its sound drown by the rush of the sea, the anguish of celtic tales.)

[silk-fleur]

drown your sadness in coffee, literature and fancy desserts.

[driflloon]

manuela @ preen fw18

[ellehena]

Eh

[caffedinotte-deactivated2018020]

[ruibri]

[saintjoan]

In the third week of April, when the lawns were green as Heaven and the apple blossoms had recklessly blown...

[phreshouttarunway]

Jasper Conran F/W 2012.

[milkeas]

People like you don’t get to insult people like me. You get to be eternally grateful. You’ve got quite a way with women. Take a look at this face, a picture of disappointment and disgust. This is the look that every woman you will ever know will come to share. This is what the next forty years of your life will look like.

[vlada-sasha-natasha]

[nordicsublime]

Magnolia