— Emil Cioran, "De l’inconvénient d’être né" (1973)

Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich (Peter Schamoni, 1986).

Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghislain Cloquet, Statues Also Die,1953

Gabriel

Pietro Donzelli: Napoli,  Via Sanità, 1949

Le sang d’un poète (Jean Cocteau, 1932)

Giovanni di Paolo, Creation of the World and Expulsion from Paradise, 1445, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art [greg.org]

Anne Carson, Mimnermos and the Motions of Hedonism

The Blood of a Poet (1931), dir. Jean Cocteau

Alphaville (1965), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - Goldberg Variations (arranged for baroque ensemble) in G-Major, after BWV 988, XXVIII. Variatio 27. Canone alla Nona. Performed by Gunhild Ott, flute, and Wolfgang Wahl, viola, on period instruments.

Ilse Bing

5.28.26 "Bridge of Sighs"

Green frescoes from Pompeii, Italy