Mithridatic Mussitations

Do know harm

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Sümeyra Yüce aka Sum de la Créme (Turkish, b. 1996, Osmaniye, Turkey) - The Seeing Blind, 2026, Paintings: Mixed Media on press Canvas

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Alfonso Simonetti. 1840-1892.

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Michael Kaluta "The Peacock Helix" (1980)

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Judith with the Head of Holofernes, 1892 by Fernand Lematt

Engraving

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Rufin Sudkovsky - "Storm near the shores of Ochakov" (1881)

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Fishy business!

The Temptation of Saint Anthony (detail) by Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1600. Museum of Nacional de Escultura in Valladolid, Spain.

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Shinji Ihara: The devil with an angel’s face, 2015

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“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”

— Franz Kafka  (via codyychristman)

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[1five1two]

Frederick Barnard. 1883.

[enchantedbook]

«The Char-A-Banc» by Alfred Bestall, 1923.

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But I do feel strange—almost unearthly. I’ll never get used to being alive. It's a mystery. Always startled to find I've survived.

John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

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Zdzislaw beksinski

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Lady Absinth (1901) - Ferdinand Keller

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“We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all.”

— Joan Didion | The Year of Magical Thinking  (via unmaiden)

[worldsandemanations]

More beautiful woods by Léon Spilliaert (Belgian, 1881-1946), Boomtakken (1940).

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Lothric knight statue by Elliott Wells