Stretch Caius Upon the Rack

"And though they call intemperance a subjection to pleasures; … it happens to them, that, being vanquished by certain pleasures, they rule over others." - Plato's Phædo

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Great to see Scottish nationalists using old photos from Russia to make Glasgow seem more violent

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relationships of the bloomsbury group (via RosaMiddleton on Etsy)

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Snapshots of Virginia Woolf taken by Lady Ottoline Morrell, June 1923.

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Whit Stillman’s “The Cosmopolitans”

Richard Brody on Whit Stillman’s Amazon pilot:

“In effect, for Stillman, exposition is a matter of form; the deft interweaving, from the very start of “The ‘Cosmopolitans,’ of disparate situations arises from a sense that labelling, whether through self-identification or the identification of others, is itself an act of high drama.”

Above: Adam Brody (left) and Adriano Giannini in “The Cosmopolitans.” Photograph courtesy Amazon Video

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Michael Oakeshott, pictured at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1933.

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I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (via mystic-ceci)

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Some of my favourite illustrations from Paris Review's Where Are They Now? series, illustrated by Jason Novak with captions by Eric Jarosinski.

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Great Quentin Blake line drawing cover of Brideshead.

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Jackson C. Frank - Milk and Honey

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I never knew the Nick Drake version was a cover.

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by Jorge Luis Borges I In their solemn corner, the players move The slow pieces. The board detains them Until the dawn in its severe world In which two colors hate each other. Within the forms irradiates magic Strictness: Homeric rook, swift Knight, armed queen, crucial king, Oblique bishop...

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Es ist wahr, ein Mathematiker, der nicht etwas Poet ist, wird nimmer ein vollkommener Mathematiker sein.

Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897)

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Pauline von Metternich 1836- 1921

Princess Pauline von Metternich was born to a noble family in Vienna and grew up to be quite the oddity of high society in the city. In 1856, Pauline married her uncle, with whom she traveled for diplomacy. She became an important figure in cultural life in Europe and was often found in the presence of Napoleon III.  

What made Pauline stand out was her obscure antics at various social gatherings. At a ball with the Princess, one could find her standing on her head, dancing jigs and even smoking in public… the horror!

In 1892, rumors spread that the lady took part in a duel. Pauline had an argument with Countess Kilmannsegg, the president of the Ladies’ Committee of the Exhibition. They had a disagreement over some arrangements for the exhibition that was so serious it could only be settled by blood. Both ladies were wounded in the duel but neither killed, thanks to the more level headed friends of the two. They fought with Rapiers, long swords designed for stabbing. The two also fought topless, to avoid infection.

The Princess was cut on the nose and the Countess was wounded on the arm. Their wounds were attended to by a Polish woman of medicine. This was the first duel with all female participants and all female seconds which was attended to by a female doctor who urged the women to fight topless. 

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Chromolithograph of the Hall of Christ Church, Oxford, from the book Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal, and Popular Antiquities (published by Charles Knight and Co., London, 1845)

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Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (1821-1909) - Small oil sketches of cats, ranging from ca. 10 x 11 to 25 x 29 cm.

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A Favourite Custom, 1909

 Oil on wood

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema