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Dante's Inferno - art by Gustave Doré (1861)

#gustave doré

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tv show challenge 📺 1 of 5 scenes

            ↳ damon admitting his true feelings to elena

#decided to rewatch #no one touch me or speak to me #tvd

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The Swango + Wrench team-up in season 3 of Fargo altered my brain chemistry, I think.

#fargo fx

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Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina,Saint Petersburg (1907)

Photography by Alfred Eberling (1872-1951)

#photography

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jess allen, the passing of time (2023)

#art

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good books (I’m a kindle girlie though)

#art

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If people know any portion of Herodotus, they almost certainly know the story of Croesus, the immensely rich king of the Lydians, who asked the oracles at Delphi whether he should go to war against the Persians: “The answers both oracles gave to the question were perfectly consistent with each other: they told Croesus that if he made war on the Persians, he would destroy a great empire.” Thus reassured, Croesus attacked and was utterly routed: The empire he would destroy was his own. Herodotus is a treasure chest of such stories and of what he calls thomata, or wonders. He tells us about temple prostitutes in Babylon, the Scythians’ use of cannabis to get high, fathers inadvertently feasting on the flesh of their own sons; he shows us the oases of North Africa (the Ethiopians, he says, “are the tallest and most attractive people in the world”), giant ants that bring up gold from underground, and Amazons who must first kill a man before they can marry; we even glimpse a high-born Persian who cuts off his nose and ears to accomplish a daring undercover military operation, a circumnavigation of Africa, and a foolish king so infatuated with his wife’s beauty that he insists that one of his counselors see her naked. With his usual charm, Herodotus notes that there are so many aromatic spices in Arabia that the entire country “gives off a wonderfully pleasant smell.” His book’s famous second chapter alone, a long excursus on Egypt, describes the use of mosquito netting, how to hunt a crocodile, the legend of Helen in Egypt, the building of pyramids, and three ways to embalm a corpse. After the mortuarial details, he gruesomely adds, “When the wife of an eminent man dies, or any woman who was particularly beautiful or famous, the body is not handed over to the embalmers straight away. They wait three or four days before doing so. The reason for this is to stop the embalmers having sex with the women.”

— MICHAEL DIRDA, from Bound to Please.

#herodotus

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“Important to become less interesting. To talk less, repeat more, save thinking for writing.” –Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks 1947-1963

#susan sontag

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— BERTOLT BRECHT, trans. John Willett.

#poetry

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curled

#art

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maybe it's just because I've been having these conversations for too long but sometimes watching a youtube video essayist analyse something is kind of like watching a third-grader run through their times tables. it's like... yes, very good, that's all true! so... what now...

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@odaryadarya.ceramic

#ceramics

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Field to Fabric: Takahiro Hasegawa’s Ode to Linen in ‘One Field, One T-shirt’

#art

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Happy Birthday, Hendrik J Valk (1897-1986)

Eenden (opus:1389): Ducks, 1973

#art

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Blessing- 2023

#art

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Franz Sedlacek- "Night" 1919

#art

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The lack of quality is making it look like an old movie and Joe fits right in ughhhhh. (still need this movie in HD so i can gif it properly ahhhh)

#joe keery #finalmente l'alba