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Dejarlo salir

Life has been pretty awful these days. People are having worse days than mine, because my country is a cemetery and the police, aided by the government, is raping and killing. It’s and outrage, this is a nightmare of a place. People are starving and dying in the streets.  This a context. This is happening and this is hurtful. But also, in a selfish way, I feel I have other problems, personal ones. And today my grandmother, while I was washing the dishes, asked me if I was okay. Instantly tears ran through my eyelids. My god it’s been a while since just the question made me cry. As usual, I am no good when it comes to talk with other people about my feelings, and not know that there are real problems ocurring just around the corner, but damn, what a helpless piece of shit.

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Phone

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James Ivory’s Oscar-winning screenplay for Call Me by Your Name is available to download for free.

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Self Portrait as St. Sebastian, 1914, Egon Schiele

Size: 32.3x48.3 cm Medium: pencil on paper

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Beato Serapio, 1628, Francisco de Zurbaran

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Etude d'homme, Thomas Couture

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The Reader, Édouard Vuillard

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We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.

Call Me by Your Name (2017) // dir. Luca Guadagnino

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Dimitry Polgar

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Fuan no Tane // 不安の種

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s copy of Keat’s Poetical Works, with his handwritten annotations.

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Visages villages (Agnès Varda & JR, 2017)

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Peter Paul Rubens - The Fall of Phaeton, 1604-1605 (detail)

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Your favorite animal is a mideval elephant? Please elaborate.

There’s something about late-medieval drawings of elephants that I find absolutely adorable. Most of the makers had never seen one in real life and based their illustration on something a daughter of an uncle’s friend three times removed had seen once and written down. I will elaborate with pictures, so you too can see the wonders of the medieval elephant. And find out that they are very effective against dragons.

Elephant fighting a dragon

Elephant mother & child swimming. Love the trumpet-trunks in this one.

A cute mother protecting her child against a snake-like dragon (with wings and a dog’s head, of course).

I believe this large-eyed one is also fighting a dragon in the original manuscript.

This one looks actually like an elephant, were it not for the castle filled with warriors strapped to its back. Maybe they’re looking for dragons to fight.

I don’t even know what the last one is.

All pictures are from The Medieval Bestiary, where you can find more information (the sources, for example, which is very nice if you want to know more about the manuscripts these come from) and can look into more interesting medieval creatures.

I hope this explains why the medieval elephant is my favourite animal. I also love cats. For elaboration on that one, go to youtube and lose 5 hours of your life looking at stupid cat compilations. At least, that’s what I do from time to time.

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Martin Lewis “Little Penthouse”, 1931

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Koloman Moser (1868 – 1918, Austrian ) Pine Forest in Winter

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Vojtěch Hynais (Albert Hynais) (1854–1925, Czech Republic)

Hynais was a Czech painter, designer and graphic artist. He designed the curtain of the Prague National Theatre, decorated a number of buildings in Prague and Vienna, and was a founding member of the Vienna Secession.