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Supporter (detail) — Nick Alm

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Green-blue chiffon dress

c. 1925

maker unknown

UNT Digital Library

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Margaretha Roosenboom (Dutch, 1843-1896)

Witte rozen

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« First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries. Often the beloved is only a stimulus for all the stored-up love which had lain quiet within the lover for a long time hitherto. And somehow every lover knows this. He feels in his soul that his love is a solitary thing. He comes to know a new, strange loneliness and it is this knowledge which makes him suffer. So there is only one thing for the lover to do. He must house his love within himself as best he can; he must create for himself a whole new inward world — a world intense and strange, complete in himself. Let it be added here that this lover about whom we speak need not necessarily be a young man saving for a wedding ring — this lover can be man, woman, child, or indeed any human creature on this earth.

Now, the beloved can also be of any description. The most outlandish people can be the stimulus for love. A man may be a doddering great-grandfather and still love only a strange girl he saw in the streets of Cheehaw one afternoon two decades past. The preacher may love a fallen woman. The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed, and given to evil habits. Yes, and the lover may see this as clearly as anyone else — but that does not affect the evolution of his love one whit. A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lilies of the swamp. A good man may be the stimulus for a love both violent and debased, or a jabbering madman may bring about in the soul of someone a tender and simple idyll. Therefore, the value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.

It is for this reason that most of us would rather love than be loved. Almost everyone wants to be the lover. And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain. »

— Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories

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tackle box 🎣

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Jennifer Chang, from "Dialogues (Against Literature)"

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After three months of labor-conducive love, my silkscreen book is complete! 

Based off of the video game ANATOMY, it tells the story of what it really means to live in a haunted house

This game has some of the best writing and one of the most original ideas I’ve seen in a while, so please, take a look!

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— Traci Brimhall, Dear Eros

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Daphne du Maurier, from "Rebecca," originally published in August 1938

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A pig photobombs a rural wedding, location unknown, but somewhere in England, 1927.

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Christmas - Paul Batch , 2020.

American, b. 1979 -

Oil on panel , 8 x 10 in.

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a little story about seeing the past through the present - featuring razorbill, who is the closest living relative of the great auk, a bird that became extinct not so long ago.

- Native to the Arctic and sub-Arctic region and once numbering millions of individuals, Great auks became extinct mid-19th century. The last breeding pair, found incubating an egg, was killed on 3 June 1844, on request from a merchant who wanted specimens, with Jón Brandsson and Sigurður Ísleifsson strangling the adults and Ketill Ketilsson smashing the egg with his boot. The last individual was seen in 1852, leaving no hope that the species might be extant.

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Andrew Wyeth; Wind From the Sea 1947

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victorian mussel shaped vinaigrette in handcrafted silver, engraved 'Lucy'. 1876.

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Lace cat. 500 designs for Mexican drawn-work. 1893.

Internet Archive

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Gallery Tone   -   Jeremy Miranda, 2017.

American, b. 1980 -

Acrylic on wood panel , 30 x 24 in