#astonishment

[stanford-photography]

Wide-Eyed and Windblown By Jeff Stanford, 2026 Buy prints of this image at: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/wide-eyed-and-windblown-jeff-stanford.html    or more of my images at: https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/

[artemlegere]

Don Quixote Disputing with the Mad Cardenio

Artist: Francis Hayman RA (English, 1708-1776)

Date: c. 1765-1770

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter, England

Description

The lovelorn Cardenio had taken to the mountains stricken with grief because of his unrequited passion for the beautiful Lucinda. Hayman here illustrates the moment when Quixote is enraged by Cardenio’s slanderous remarks about Queen Madamisa whilst Sancho and the goat herd look on in astonishment.

[strangememories]

[apple-anachronism]

believe it or not, i do have other genuine ways of coping. they're just nowhere as near as fun or fulfilling as venting on tumblr. like i have said, tis a void

[gothicseverance]

Astonishment, suspense, uncertainty, ambivalence, play — such is the axis along which the gothic moves.

—A Philosophical View of the Gothic Novel

Gif by @linusbenjamin 🖤

[yaghrib]

Anna Kamienska.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Near the foot of the bed was a small square table, on which stood a dish of oranges and a carafe of water. As we passed it, Holmes, to my unutterable astonishment, leaned over in front of me and deliberately knocked the whole thing over.

"The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle