Sublime Desires

Instagram and my face

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Monet’s Garden in Giverny, France by Jamie Beck

[kafkasdiariies]

Venice, The Rialto Bridge (detail), Carlo Grubacs (Italian, 1801–1878)

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Working in here today was bliss, there was barely anyone else around. Lockdown slowly lifting and the sunnier weather in London recently is bringing me hope.

ig: rhiharper

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Brera, Milani, Italia | walter_7.3

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By Lynda Barry  May 2016

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Every time I see this I love it more

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Donna Tartt, The Secret History

[unangecommetoi]

George Hillyard Swinstead (1905) The Angel’s Message

[nymphastral]

“The witch-burnings did not take place during the “Dark Ages,” as we commonly suppose. They occurred between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries– precisely during and following the Renaissance, that glorious period when, as we are taught, “men’s” minds were being freed from bleakness and superstition. While Michelangelo was sculpting and Shakespeare writing, the witches were burning. The whole secular “Enlightenment,” in fact, the male professions of doctor, lawyer, judge, artist, all rose from the ashes of the destroyed women’s culture. Renaissance men were celebrating naked female beauty in their art, while women’s bodies were being tortured and burned by the hundreds of thousands all around them.”

— Monica Sjoo & Barbara Mor in The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth (via lunamtenebris)

[mournfulroses]

I love Anton Chekhov

[bookshelfporn]

An absolutely surreal bookstore in Chengdu, China. Photos by Shao Feng.

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Detail (#2): Flora and Zephyr, 1875, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

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Mont Saint Michel Abbey

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Detail of 18th century male suit.