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Timothy Cleary

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“Oh, yes!” answered the little ballet-girls in chorus, warding off ill-luck by pointing their forefinger and little finger at the absent Persian, while their second and third fingers were bent on the palm and held down by the thumb. • The Phantom of The Opera by Gaston Leroux

John Galliano by Richard Avedon for Egoïste, 2000

Eminem by Jenny Risher for Paper, 2015

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Young Woman with a Child (Mädchen mit Kind), 1919, woodcut

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Prales (Duše lesa) - Josef Váchal, c.1921

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William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) The Fair Spinner, ca.1874

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for @liturgical-agenda and youme and meyou and us and we

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“Fall in love and stay in love. Explode. Don’t intellectualize. Get passionate about ideas. Cram your head full of images. Stay in the library. Stay off the internet and all that crap. Read all the great books. Read all the great poetry. See all the great films. Fill your life with metaphors. And then explode.”

— Ray Bradbury • Conversations With Ray Bradbury

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To peruse actually means to read closely and with great care. It is therefore a total boner to employ it as a synonym for to skim.

David Foster Wallace • Your Liberal-Arts $ At Work

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September 2

In the evening there were flocks of nighthawks

passing southward over the valley.  The tall

sunflowers stood, burning on their stalks

to cold seed, by the still river.  And high

up the birds rose into sight against the darkening

clouds.  They tossed themselves among the fading

landscapes of the sky like rags, as in

abandonment to the summons their blood knew.

And in my mind, where had stood a garden

straining to the light, there grew

an acceptance of decline.  Having worked,

I would sleep, my leaves all dissolved in flight.

Wendell Berry • Poetry Magazine, May 1970

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‘Incantation’, by French artist Ludovic Alleaume (1859 - 1941)

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Marie Madeleine - Ludovic Alleaume

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George Clausen (1852-1944), Youth Mourning, 1916.

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Sport. Written by W. Bromley-Davenport. Illustrated by Henry Hope Crealock. 1888.

Internet Archive

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Nude Girl with her Leg on a Chair (1911) Wojciech Weiss

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

 Windswept Firs (Wettertannen), 1919

Woodcut printed in purple, blue, and green in technique akin to monotype

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I wrote a poem once and it went, “I’m looking in a mirror, I’m looking at myself in the mirror, and behind me is another mirror, and I see myself looking into the mirror, seeing myself.” Mirrors always interested me. That’s an idea I used in Images, where the set was filled with mirrors. It all came from a frightening thing I imagined. You’re sitting on the bed and you’re talking to your wife, who’s in the bathroom. And you’re talking away and she comes out and it’s an entirely different woman you are talking to. What do you do? Do you continue the conversation and think, “I’m wrong,” or do you cover and think this is in your mind? Or do you throw her out of the house because she is a stranger? In writing it, I had the woman sitting on the bed and the guy comes out and it’s a different guy, and that’s the whole genesis of Images. I didn’t know I was doing anything about schizophrenia, yet I was pretty accurate in it. It was an instinctive kind of thing. — Robert Altman: The Oral Biography

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Jane Birkin in Paris by Tony Frank, 1970 • Shelley Duvall on the set of Robert Altman's film Brewster McCloud, 1970