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on winter and longing

Sarah Kay, Natalie Diaz, Craig Keenan, Clarice Lispector, Mahmoud Darwish, Brittany Cossette, Franz Kafka, Edvard Munch, Richard Siken, Haruki Murakami, Holly Warburton, Mahmoud Darwish

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mythology meme: dionysus

❝ O Dionysus, Son of God, do you see our sufferings? Do you see your faithful in helpless agony before the oppressor? O Lord, come down from Olympus, shake your golden thyrsus and stifle the murderer’s insolent fury. ❞ ―       Euripides, The Bacchae

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Isabelle Adjani in La Reine Margot (1994), dir. Patrice Chéreau

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mythology meme: apollo

❝ Meantime his golden face around He bares to all the garden ground, And sheds a warm and glittering look Among the ivy’s inmost nook. Above the hills, along the blue, Round the bright air with footing true, To please the child, to paint the rose, The gardener of the World, he goes. ❞ ―       Robert Louis Stevenson, Summer Sun

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mythology meme: ares

❝ But Athena, eyes bright, taking Ares in hand, called the violent god away with: “Ares, Ares, destroyer of men, reeking blood, stormer of ramparts, why not let these mortals fight it out for themselves? Let Zeus give glory to either side he chooses. We’ll stay clear and escape the Father’s rage.” ❞ ― Homer, The Iliad

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‘The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.’ - Albert Einstein. From Beauty and by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro.

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MAGGIE (MAN-YUK) CHEUNG in 一 IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) dir. Wong Kar-Wai

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Les Remords d’Oreste / The Remorse of Orestes or Orestes Pursued by the Furies (1862) - William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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Literature classics: The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”  

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Dead And Lovely, by Tom Waits

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mythology meme: hades & persephone

❝ I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. ❞ 

― Pablo Neruda, XVII (I do not love you…)

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The daughter of a legendary thief, who sewed winter coats out of stolen purses. She herself a thief, pickpocket, swindler.

The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook

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Come the Slumberless To the Land of Nod, Traci Brimhall

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the age of shadows, 2016 dir. by kim jee woon

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“A tragedy is the story of a human growing into his death mask. What has been done is too total to be undone, or even regretted; it defines the doer once and for all and renders the future impossible. (Macbeth is the story of Macbeth growing into his regicide, even as his wife collapses under it; the hesitant hen-pecked man of the first act becomes a monstrous king with burning eyes, master of the deed that mastered him.) The tragic hero attains something like divine completeness, except that for human beings completeness is death. So the ubiquitous counsel of the chorus concerning the hero—look what fortune has done here, she used to be on top of the world, don’t count on happiness, don’t believe anyone happy until he is dead—says more than it seems to. In the last analysis, what can one say of mere mortals? A human is just too partial, too speckled and subject and already-half-gone, for anything to be really true or false of him. Is he happy, is she sad? Maybe, a bit, for a time, but really—who can say, who can even care? That’s how it is for humans, unless and until they are tragic. The tragic hero is complete. You can call him unhappy (miserable, utterly broken) even before he is dead. For an instant he is something like divine. And then he dies, because there’s nothing left to do. The center of every tragedy is the image of a human being who has already died but keeps talking, someone whose face is a mask. Antigone says this explicitly—she is already dead; Oedipus acts it out in gouging out his eyes.”

— Michael Kinnucan, “The Gods Show Up” (via smakkabagms)

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Franz Kafka, from Letters to Milena Suspiria, directed by Luca Guadagnino (2018) Forugh Farrokhzad, from “Another Birth” Florence and The Machine, from “Cassandra” Margaret Atwood, from “Axiom”

Daedalus and Icarus (detail) by Orazio Riminaldi Suspiria, directed by Luca Guadagnino (2018) Female Saint Holding a Book (detail) by Amico Aspertini Florence Welch, photographed by Autumn de Wilde