Fortis et Liber

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aqueduct in La Boullide

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[mysterium-solis]

The Divine Eros Defeats the Earthly Eros (detail) by Giovanni Baglione (c. 1602)

[xanaxfarts]

A meteor falling into Mount Merapi, the most active volcano in Indonesia, and the resulting shot looks like there's a green beam of light shooting up from the crater. photo: Gunarto Song

[volscius]

"It is not possible for those whose thoughts and habits are mean and servile to produce anything that is remarkable or worthy of immortal fame."

— Longinus, On the Sublime

[mysterium-solis]

Olympus, or The Triumph of Venus (sketch) by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (c. 1761-64)

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Prometheus Steals Fire from Apollo's Sun Chariot by Giuseppe Collignon (1814)

[volscius]

CCVI. The weak cannot be virtuous.

[anmehe]

[mysterium-solis]

The Erythrean Message to the People of Tarquinia by Ernst Stückelberg (1891)

[aess-0x]

[mysterium-solis]

Promise of Spring by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1890)

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[dripculture]

[nagsyl]

[amuseoffyre]

One of my favourite photos from my trip to Warsaw in 2006

[mysterium-solis]

Odysseus and Polyphemus by Arnold Böcklin (1896)