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S.C. Lourie

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. February 1934

— Arthur Miller, The Crucible

Rise and collapse of a wave. Details of paintings by Michael Zeno Diemer (1867-1939)

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle) 1989, dir. Éric Rohmer

green books

philippa iksiraq, "flowers," 1990, felt, embroidery floss and duffle

"You could hear the shrieks of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men" wrote Roman magistrate and writer Pliny the Younger in a letter to historian Tacitus, recalling the tragedy that hit the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the fall of 79 AD. Then, a roaring Mount Vesuvius erupted and pulverized molten rock and hot ash hundreds of feet into the air for 18 hours straight, releasing 100,000 times the thermal energy of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki atomic bombs Some [inhabitants] were calling their parents Pliny the Younger goes on to say, others their children or their wives, trying to recognize them by their voices. People bewailed their own fate or that of their relatives, and there were some who prayed for death in their terror of dying. Many besought the aid of the gods, but still more imagined there were no gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness for evermore"

Zdzisław Beksiński

Zdzisław Beksiński: 'Gothic Formalism Surrealism' Architectural Illustrations (1976-1984)

Francisco Goya - Boy Staring at an Apparition, 1824-25

“The Swan Maidens” (1894) by Walter Crane (English, 1845 - 1915)

Isabel Allende ― The House of the Spirits

Medium: Oil on canvas

Madonna in Glory, Carlo Dolci 1665-1675.