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― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

It has nothing to do with Satan, Mama. It's me. If I concentrate hard enough, I can move things.

Born on this day (02/24/1836): Winslow Homer.

Oedipus at Colonus, Fulchran Jean Harriet, 1798, Cleveland Museum of Art: European Painting and Sculpture

The ancient mythical Greek king Oedipus fulfilled his fate by unknowingly killing his father and marrying his mother. He subsequently blinded himself and was exiled. Here, Oedipus reprimands himself, while protecting his daughter Antigone. Oedipus became popular in France just after the French Revolution, since the subject addressed the return of exiles. The ancient Greek writer Sophocles provided the best-known version of the tragedy, but an interpretation that played in Paris in 1797 inspired Harriet’s work. Size: Framed: 187.5 x 164.5 x 8.5 cm (73 13/16 x 64 ¾ x 3 3/8 in.); Overall: 157 x 134 cm (61 13/16 x 52 ¾ in.) Medium: oil on canvas

Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo, third officer reporting. The other members of the crew - Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash, and Captain Dallas - are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.