El cavaller de Camelot. L'art de Pavel Tatarnikov.

bless him [link]

june 10, 2005

Info from ISFDB

wake up adso! deodamnatus, you went too hard with that communion wine yesterday. what? homosexual encounters in the abbey? secrets in the library? boy you still reek of your mother's milk and can barely read greek, everything is a secret to you! now make haste, we must reach padua as soon as we can

Odissea (1968)

Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde c. 1380

You know the form of language, too, can change. Within a thousand years, even the words that were most precious then, seem strange and foolish to us; yet they spoke them so and did no worse in love than we now do.

november 17, 2008

A SILK HERALDIC RUG, POSSIBLY KASHAN, CENTRAL PERSIA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY