Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing At The Edge Of The World: Thoughts On Words, Women, Places

December 22

An Edward Gorey limerick

“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again. We’re drawn in — or out — and the windows of our perception are cleansed, as William Blake said. The same thing can happen when we’re around young children or adults who have unlearned those habits of shutting the world out.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin 

Into the Unknown

Wirt, Greg, Jason and Beatrice lost in the Unknown.

Some old fanart I’m still very fond of :)

Forlorn Frog in Fall

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W.H. Auden, from "Funeral Blues"

Moira Smiley, from "Donal Og"

Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867 - 1945): Death with his wife in his lap (via Dorotheum)

Prudence Heward (Canadian, 1896 - 1947): Portrait of Mrs. Zimmerman (1943) (via National Gallery of Canada)

"There's no hope for the future." And that's how they felt during the Atomic Age, during the World Wars, during the Enlightenment Revolutions, during thr plagues, during the Viking raids, during the fall of Rome.

Yet, we persisted.