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T. S. Eliot, from “The Waste Land,” The Complete Poems & Plays of T.S.Eliot (Faber & Faber Poetry, 2004)

Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess (via ofallingstar)

Abstract Splash by Valentin Valkov

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July 23, 2016

Iris Murdoch, Under The Net (via aurorasdreamerie)

Night Clouds

Over London by Rain from London, a Pilgrimage by Gustave Doré (ca. 1870). 

Akrotiri was a settlement with stone-paved streets and squares, a prudently designed zoning plan and an advanced sewage system. The houses were two- and three-story, built with stone and mud. The ground floors housed craftsmen’s workshops and storerooms, mainly for food. The rooms of the upper stories were bathed in natural light streaming in through large windows. Most walls were decorated with elaborate paintings depicting people, animals and plants. The furniture was wooden and the loom was an essential household item, used by the lady of the house to weave the family’s clothes. The inhabitants were traders, artisans, mariners, farmers, stock breeders and craftsmen. They kept flocks of sheep and goats. They planted wheat and barley, which they harvested with stone or bronze sickles. They stored produce in large earthenware jars and cultivated olives, from which they made oil. Indeed, output was so high that they also exported. Wine production was another key economic activity. Locals further supplemented their income by supplying Crete with large quantities of obsidian (black volcanic rock) and metals. Their diet consisted of pulses, vegetables and all sorts of fish, caught in the surrounding waters and sold in the harbor. But their favorite delicacy was snails, brought to the island from Crete.

Derelict Gothic Abbey ~ Jorge Carlos Gonzalez

Appenzellerland by pboehi on Flickr.