Wasted Nights

Galileo Galiliei - ‘Sidereus Nuncius’, Pleiades Star Cluster, 1610.

I am glad that the crumbs taken from my bedroom are returned to tiny cities built by ants, and that the thunder of the storms rolling in from the north trembles in my chest when it is still a ways off. Hello, says the world, you are so little. Hello, says the world, you are so big.

Frans Oerder (South African, born Netherlands, 1867-1944), Begonias. Oil on canvas, 40.3 x 50.5 cm.

— Unknown

A tiny devil vitrified in a prism of glass. In the 18th century, the Imperial Treasury of Vienna attested that this was a real demon which had been trapped in glass during an exorcism in Germany a century earlier. ⁣From the Kunsthistorisches Museum Collection, Vienna.⁣

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