Ein Glasperlenspiel

Antiquity, art history, the Baroque, ecology, films, languages ancient and modern, literature, etc.!

[milfsisyphus]

how to relax and enjoy life for beginners

[thequeerlibrarian]

JOMP Challenge | August 3 | Summer

[thequeerlibrarian]

Two new second hand Hesse books for my Hermann Hesse collection 👀😍

[funeral]

James Trafford, “The Shadow of a Puppet Dance: Metzinger, Ligotti and the Illusion of Selfhood” in Collapse Vol. IV: Concept Horror, ed. Robin Mackay

[studylatin]

[funeral]

When through the water's thickness I see that tiling at the bottom of a pool, I do not see it despite the water and the reflections there; I see it through them and because of them. If there were no distortions, no ripples of sunlight, if it were without this flesh that I saw the geometry of the tiles, then I would cease to see it as it is and where it is—which is to say, beyond any identical, specific place. I cannot say that the water itself—the aqueous power, the syrupy and shimmering element—is in space; all this is not somewhere else either, but it is not in the pool. It inhabits it, it materializes itself there, yet it is not contained there; and if I raise my eyes toward the screen of cypresses where the web of reflections is playing, I cannot gainsay the fact that the water visits it, too, or at least sends into it, upon it, its active and living essence.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible

[unhelpfultarot]

Three of Cups and The High Priestess

You're at the club, but only to take notes on the atmosphere, for a scene in the book you're writing.

[unhelpfultarot]

Five of Pentacles and Seven of Pentacles

Soon you should take a short break from the grind, to stop and admire your progress.

[5-and-a-half-acres]

All of these pansies are from self seeding except the black one.

[garadinervi]

From: Harry Blamires, The Bloomsday Book. A Guide through Joyce's 'Ulysses', Methuen & Co. Ltd, London, 1966

[rions-room]

10/June/2026

I recently used up all the pages in my plotter notepad, and started using a new one! The novel I’m reading is about to reach the climax, too :)

[tridentandtales]

Roman bowl with a fisherman, fishes and a hippocamp

ca. 400 CE

J. Paul Getty Museum 81.AE.40.1

[lattealmond]

Currently reading 🏰

[nostalgiaforinfinity]

Short-toed Treecreeper

[tenephre]

[alwaysbeenjessica]

have a poem with your breakfast

[warmfigure]

coldest winter of my life