#leguinian

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Anne Bradstreet's Before the Birth of One of Her Children, excerpt

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“He who tampers with the scales of life and makes it seem unduly heavy will receive his punishment in hell.”

Yukio Mishima, Thirst For Love

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Panel from a Mihrab

Kashan, Iran

Il-Khanid dynasty (1256 - 1353)

source: Smithsonian

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dying, death, and grief

funeral blues, w. h. auden // pieta in fresco at church of saint panteleimon // do not go gentle into that good night, dylan thomas // young woman on her death bed, unknown (1621) // early sunsets over monroeville, my chemical romance

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-James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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Pendant Cross, 19th to mid-20th century

Ethiopian Orthodox

Label Text, courtesy of the National Museum of African Art

Silver pendant crosses are worn in Ethiopia as professions of the Christian faith, a tradition begun in the 15th century with crosses of wood and other metals. The Maria Theresa thaler, an 18th-century Austrian coin popular in Africa in the 19th century, was often melted down and transformed into silver pendant crosses.

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excerpt from izumi kyōka's the holy man of mount kōya