T.E. Lawrence once owned a bronze replica of Hypnos, the god of sleep.
In 1909, when he was on his way back from a tour of Syria, T. E. Lawrence passed through Naples and wrote a friend: "The bronzes in the Naples museum are beyond words". He paid a Neapolitan bronze foundry eight francs for a flawed freehand copy of the Hypnos head now in the British Museum (itself a Roman copy of a Greek work dating from the fourth century BC).
He wrote to his brother Will that it was "very good work, but a bad cast, modem naturally. I asked the price and tumbled down with it to eight francs, little more than the value of the metal. You will admire it immensely; and I'll give you five minutes to find out the fault in the casting".
After returning to Oxford he placed it on a seat in the bay window of his study in the garden bungalow, where it became his most cherished ornament. According to Vyvyan Richards, Lawrence would lie on the floor and contemplate it. He wrote that "nothing, not even the dawn–can disturb me in my curtains: only the slow crumblings of the coals in the fire: they get so red & throw such splendid glimmerings on the Hypnos & the brass-work". He also wrote to his brother Arnold: "I would rather possess a fine piece of sculpture than anything in the world".
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HORROR FILMS + paintings
Carrie (1976) | Study for Lady Macbeth (1851) The Witch (2015) | Witches’ Flight (1797) The Lighthouse (2019) | Hypnosis (1904) Parasomnia (2008) | AA72 (1972) The Cell (2000) | Dawn (1989)
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In Hell there grew a Judas Tree
Where Judas hanged and died
Because he could not bear to see
His master crucified
Our Lord descended into Hell
And found his Judas there
For ever hanging on the tree
Grown from his own despair
So Jesus cut his Judas down
And took him in his arms
“It was for this I came” he said
“And not to do you harm
My Father gave me twelve good men
And all of them I kept
Though one betrayed and one denied
Some fled and others slept
In three days’ time I must return
To make the others glad
But first I had to come to Hell
And share the death you had
My tree will grow in place of yours
Its roots lie here as well
There is no final victory
Without this soul from Hell”
So when we all condemned him
As of every traitor worst
Remember that of all his men
Our Lord forgave him first
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