Alena.

Caroline Walker Bynum, “Women mystics and eucharistic devotion in the thirteenth century" 

everyone talks about anne carson's translation of oresteia because of the "it's rotten work" "not to me, not if it's you" but what about these,

Devin Kelly, from "Wishing I Was Looking Down at Baseball Diamonds from an Airplane Window”

Interview with the Vampire (2022–) / Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things; “The Good Fight” / House of the Dragon (2022–)

i’m devastated, actually.

The Curious Thing, Sandra Lim

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Antigone, Jean Anouilh//Ophelia (detail) Henrietta Rae 1890//Ophelia, Henri Lehmann (1847)//Sophocles//Hamlet, William Shakespeare//Ophelia, Jean-Baptiste Bertrand, 1857//The Oresteia, Aeschylus//Ophelia, Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser, 1900

you pet your dog and the electron-orbitals of your skin overlap with the electron-orbitals of his fur, and both are changed by the contact. you are not made of little motes floating alone in a void. you are a single unfathomable chord formed of a trillion vibrations, and so is he. and the note you play is changing at every moment by what you touch and how you breathe, and so is his. and atoms do not really have edges, and to touch is to interact, and when you put your hand on your dog the universe does not know that you are separate. the song expands to hold you both.

paul manship, actaeon | fred b. tromly, playing with desire: christopher marlowe and the art of tantalization | saltburn (2023), dir. emerald fennell | leonard barkan, diana and actaeon: the myth as synthesis | edith wharton, artemis to actaeon

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