something rich & strange

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

[merristueller]

Art nouveau flower shop, Brussels

[sioltach]

Claire Tabouret’s Hand-Painted Home

[arte-artem-artibus]

Gustav Klimt - Insel im Attersee (Island in the Attersee), 1901–02, oil on canvas, 100.5 x 100.5 cm

[fordarkmornings]

Alistair K. MacDonald (Scottish, 1880-1948)

Illustration for The Sketch, 1920

[lekythoi]

october 2025 • the lake district

[pmamtraveller]

Jie Song

[everydaylouie]

cat game

[jimhenson-themuppetmaster]

[pmamtraveller]

Claude Monet by Thomas Bossard

[oldpaintings]

Resting Female by Pauline Wallen (American, 1922–2010)

[2colde]

Ivan Aivazovsky - Among the Waves (1898)

[heavenlycreatures]

finland, pietarsaari, 2020

[everydaylouie]

bull in a china shop

[sacredwhores]

Agnès Varda - Jane B. par Agnès V. (1987)

[eyesaremosaics]

French art nouveau fan by artist Tutin

[sandovers]

Miss Lavish frowned. It is hard when a person you have classed as typically British speaks out of his character.

E. M. Forster, A Room With A View

[weepingwidar]

Essam Marouf (Egyptian, 1958) - Untitled (2010)