and let us fade

Varda par Agnès (Agnès Varda, 2019)

(Pantheon Books, 1983)

Ghalib laments that it would take a lifetime of sighs of the lover to have an influence (or affect) on the heart of the beloved. Who knows who will live so long so see this fructify. Who will live so long to see your hairs properly arranged and your small nuances (curls of your hairs could mean the tangled/mysterious ways of your life) to get resolved. The poet says these small niceties/concerns of yours may take forever and who knows if I am alive to see you finally free and giving me the full attention that I deserve. source: https://rahulnegi.blogspot.com/2012/04/aah-ko-chahiye-ek.html

Date: mid-19th century

Edward Gorey “Cat Fancy”

Edward Gorey - Tarot

Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)

Matsumoto Hoji aka 松本奉時 aka Hoji Matsumoto (Japanese, Unknown-1800, based Osaka, Japan) - Paintings: Ink on Paper

Louis Wain (English, 1860-1939)

Les glaneurs et la glaneuse, 2000

Image © Brian Matthews, European shag. All images © Bird Photographer of the Year

Ono no Komachi & Izumi Shikibu, tr. by Jane Hirshfield & Mariko Aratani, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

of your soul upon my lips”]

From a 1968 Nancy strip

snoopy’s brother olaf who plays the jug in their family band decorates everything under the theme of “Jug”