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the angel by lou benesch, unknown date, unknown materials, unknown dimensions

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This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar

Margaret Atwood, Eating Fire: Selected Poetry, 1965-95

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Elizabeth Ayodele by Vivi Suthathip for Vogue Mexico June 2025

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📍 nw waterfront

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Illustration for "Between Thee And Him Alone", Alberto Martini, 1908, published in Perceval Landon's Raw Edges

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No Longer Human (人間失格) // Osamu Dazai & Junji Ito

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Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person’s body, of another person’s smell. We had our arms around each other. It was like holding in my hand some rare, exhausted, nearly doomed bird which I had miraculously happened to find.

James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

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Tell me no, and we’ll go on as we have been … and we’ll go on unafraid … but say yes, and we will make this end, and this beginning, together.

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This is what I felt: the warm weight of his hands on me; the genuineness in his smile; the gentle heat of something opening, the way some flowers spread out in the morning at the sight of the sun.

Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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Edith Rimmington, Family Tree, 1937

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'Infinity spiral'. Francisco Infante-Arana. 1965.

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The house will endure despite vengeance. Its vaunted ghastly soldier will drift like a miasma. And rumours will fly.

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mother

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (2025)

The Heartlands