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oh rome as heterotopia (a physical site in which diverse, discontinuous, and ambiguous slices of time and space can be accommodated) we’re really in it now

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Unknown Artist (formerly attributed to Michelangelo) The Head of St. John the Baptist on a platter

Marble, 1550-1600

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Tobias and the Angel (detail), Filippino Lippi, c. 1472 - 1482

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Pride and Prejudice, 2005 (Joe Wright)

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Ann.tique

Horae Dress

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carry on, rainbow rowell // the lamment of icarus, herbert james draper // apollo to icarus, nikita gill // sunlight, hozier // icarus, oscar wilde.

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ph. Paul Phung

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Verdura Maltese cross cuffs paired with Norma Kamali’s quilted, embroidered robe. The history behind these cuffs is quite interesting. Fulco Santostefano della Cerda, the Duke of Verdura, started his career with Coco Chanel as head of textiles.

Chanel commissioned Verdura to create pieces for the boutique, but also to reset her own (real) jewels which had been gifted to her by admirers and lovers through the years. The jewels given by Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia were made into a cuff bracelet with a Maltese cross. This classic cuff bracelet is still very much popular today.

Photo from Mirabella, August 1989.

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France, early 18th century, silk and metallic thread embroidery on silk

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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings obliteration.

DUNE (2021) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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Fernando Pessoa ― The Book of Disquiet

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“It’s dusk, dearest. (In passing, isn’t ‘dusk’ a lovely word? I like it better than twilight. It sounds so velvety and shadowy and – and – dusky.) In daylight I belong to the world; in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I’m free from both and belong only to myself – and you.”

— L.M. Montgomery, from Anne of Windy Poplars (via luthienne)