Month: July 2019

redlipstickresurrected: Gustave Doré aka Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (French, 1832-1883, b. Strasbourg, France) – Les Trois Sorcières from Macbeth by William Shakespeare, 1860, Etching

constanceelena: “I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe—but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn’t be surprised if poetry—poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and…

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This was pretty unbelievable, but if you ever watch those terrifying Taiwan scooter accidents on YouTube where they get ran over and then get right back up you can believe it.

Dante Per me si va ne la città dolente, per me si va ne l’etterno dolore, per me si va tra la perduta gente.

Atopia: Strangeness in the Scholia to the Iliad That’s pretty interesting

elsewheregreen: PR China 4 Fen of 1958:  Sputnik 1 in the sky, above an ancient armillary sphere. Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite; launched by the Soviet Union into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957.