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AMARASINGH & ———,   infernal attorneys at law & purveyors of the magical arts

  ANCIENT FAMILY CURSE KEEPING YOU UP AT NIGHT?   SOLD YOUR SOUL FOR ONE LAST ROUND OF POKER?   CALL 1-800-HELLPER NOW!

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I screamed when i saw your Harry August edit !! Was looking for fan content for ages & your edit is gorgeous.

oh omg ty!! i’m so sorry if it’s been a while since you sent this i’m not super active these days. but happy to meet someone else who loves that book as much as I do!!!

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anne sexton // richard siken// margaret atwood // virginia woolf

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I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. 

Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both. 

(R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War)

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Skeleton Praying (c. 1600s) Skeleton Pleading (c. 1600s) Marble floor of the Cornaro Chapel

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Arthur John Black (1855 - 1936) The Waking Moon 1890-91

Edward Robert Hughes (1851 - 1914) The Weary Moon

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People linked by destiny will always find each other.

The Witcher (2019-)

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“Tears do not burn except in solitude.”

— ‘On the Heights of Despair,’ E.M. Cioran

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“He dances in the burning circle of peonies /  He sings in the blackbird’s song…”

Vasko Popa, excerpt from ‘The Blackbird’s Field’

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“…Gardens tremble / the trees lean together / and whisper…”

Octavio Paz, ‘Perpetua Encarnada’

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『ベッドルーム』 2015 22×22

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“I understood the true fate of Orpheus, that love is a constant terror of loss.”

— Kazimierz Wierzyński, tr. by Czeslaw Milosz, “A Word of Orphists,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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“Claudia Rankine wrote that loneliness is what we can’t do for each other. / I think a definition of ugliness is what we’re too afraid to do. What we don’t want to do.”

— Arabelle Sicardi, from “The Year in Ugliness,” published in The Poetry Project

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There’s a shivering light on the street tonight, strange shadows on the lawn–a black horse running in the grass and vanishing at dawn.

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HALA ALYAN

‘You’re Not a Girl in a Movie’, The Twenty-Ninth Year (2019);

original photos and edit

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detail of hands from guercino’s the return of the prodigal son (1619)

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by Janis RoseAnne