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people in period clothing doing modern things is my aesthetic
Black Panthers protesting against the Vietnam War, Washington D.C, 1969.
Photo by Bruno Barbey
“I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness. Skylarks sing in the sunshine, the blue sky, the warm air, in the fresh morning light. The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space. ”
― Guy de Maupassant
Photography by: Handsonl
Jennifer Saunders, from “When the Guest Speaker Told Us“
Detail : Spring Scattering Stars, 1927, by Edwin Blashfield.
“It wasn’t the sort of question that needed an answer, so no one replied. Frederick was watching me, I realized, with the proud, fatherly affection he usually reserved for James—who gave me a faint but encouraging smile when I glanced across the table.
“That,” Frederick said, “is where the tragedy is.”
Undersong: Equinox by Audre Lorde
the overwhelming urge to know latin, french, italian, greek, and russian is consuming me
had to be said.......
I hope stars gaze back at us, too.
Does she fancy me?
Or is she just being friendly?
My favourite game
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” – Descartes
photography by familiarspirits
“‘Passion has often worn our wandering hearts.’“
- W. B. Yeats in “Ephemera”
today’s social distancing mood is: achilles wrapped up in a blanket burrito
reminder that this blog, while not politically focused, supports BLM. bootlickers and racists aren’t welcome here, and never will be.
michaelmas term at oxford university, 2018
1. Greek god: Zeus. | 2-3. Neptune by Lambert-Sigisbert Adam (1700-1759).
Anne Bachelier’s illustrations for The Phantom of the Opera
i have so much to say about how badly i want a pretentious shakespeare-obsessed academics friend group and a boy to have intense homoerotic tension with but i yearn for it so much that i have no idea how to put it into words
