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Nostalgia For The Silence IV - Annemarie de Groot
Dutch , b. 1952 -
Acrylic on canvas , 100 x 100 cm.
‘East of the Sun and West of the Moon’ by Ella Williams
“In the library“
Józef Rapacki (Polish;1871-1929)
oil on canvas
National Museum, Warsaw
House On The Hill by Francisco Fonseca
Psychopomp by Lily Seika Jones
watercolour painting
Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese”
Into the Unknown
Wirt, Greg, Jason and Beatrice lost in the Unknown.
Some old fanart I’m still very fond of :)
“The Bad Luck Gang"
artist: kAt Philbin
“Life could be just sitting on the grass, holding a daisy and not plucking the petals, because the answers are already known, or because they are of so little importance that discovering them would not be worth the life of a flower.”
— Jose Saramago
i love that charles dickens got paid by the word. like i cant even be mad when he’s boring and long-winded bc i would do xactly the same??? i wouldnt use contractions or colours at all. want to say the word red? too bad. we r now only using “the colour of freshly-spilled blood on snow; the hue of the horizon when the sun sets over the deserts of sub-saharan Africa” BOOM guess who can afford 2 eat now: me and my boi dickens
Aesop & Charon by Lily Seika Jones
watercolour painting
In Greek mythology Charon is the ferryman who carries souls of the newly deceased across the river Acheron (Styx) that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead.
Aesop was a Greek storyteller credited with a number of fables, now collectively known as Aesop’s Fables.
MJL, an excerpt from the poem, “Blueberry Jam on the Butter Knife” from the poetry collection, Orchids and Other Poems
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
book illustrations: Inga Moore
14th Century English Manor House
Castle Combe | England
The Great Escape by Jane Newland
Forest in Dorset under the afternoon sun (@richies_incredible_britain)
Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
Forlorn Frog in Fall
Redbubble
Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
The Hare and the Crow by Amanda Clark
painting
Catriona Ward answering the question, It can’t possibly be a coincidence that horror fiction and haunted houses have been so popular during the pandemic. What does horror mean in the age of Covid?
Stained glass windows by Louis Comfort Tifanny
the.owl.and.her.bluebell on Instagram
“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
— Samuel Beckett | Worstward Ho
An Edward Gorey limerick
Loré Pemberton on Instagram
Sunday Evening by Jean-Claude Götting
drawing
Moment by Pierre Renollet
watercolour painting