Ivan Tankov (1739-1799)

Old Gods - Autumn Art by shwerns

Describe time. No, really, give it a go. You’re going to say something about a sequence of events, aren’t you? Seconds sliced off a clock, marching one by one off into infinity. Go ahead, use your metaphors: A line. A loop. A flat circle. Heard someone say time was like water once. At least that was novel. The Vex, they’re the closest to understanding it. They’ve got distance from it. If time’s a river, then we’re fish and they’re diving birds. What’s wet mean to a fish? What’s it mean to an osprey, who’s never fooled by refraction on the water’s surface?

black fallow deer seen in the Barycz Valley - Landscape Park in Poland

A shattered sky. A planet convulsing. Tearing apart. —-What do you feel, my child?—- “Relief.”

And then I… I… and then I am…

A phenomenal pair of gilded Gauntlets in gothic style for Emperor Maximilian I, attributed to Lorenz Helmschmid, Augsburg, Germany, ca. 1485, housed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

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‘The children say they saw it in the field again. They claim it knows their names.’