The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant) 1972, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Katsushika Hokusai

Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, published in Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

Ocean Vuong, from “Beautiful Short Loser”, Time Is a Mother

Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, published in Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, published in Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

ghostly hare

Monroe’s bookshelf was exceedingly impressive. At the time of her death, she owned more than 400 volumes, including several first editions. Of the thousands of photographs taken of her, she was especially fond of ones that showed her reading. When a director once found her reading R.M. Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, he asked her how she chose it. “[On] nights when I’ve got nothing else to do I go to the Pickwick bookstore on Hollywood Boulevard,” she told him. “And I just open books at random—or when I come to a page or a paragraph I like, I buy that book. So last night I bought this one. Is that wrong?”

A selection of French votive hearts. Many of them have a Marian monogram on the front.

Jarik Jongman (Dutch, b. 1962), Phenomena (16), 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm.

Laura Benson

Smallpox Tale, 1975, Shuji Terayama

Antonio Vivarini - Saint Peter Martyr Exorcizing a Woman Possessed by a Devil. Detail. 1440 - 1455

jean cocteau, opium, 1929

Mazzy Star by Jeffery Newbury; 1994.