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Beautiful and faintly frightening?

Peter Birkhäuser (1911–1976) - Moth, c. 1944-45
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Them bones, them bones, them dry bones …
Christoph Jacob Trew. Tabulae osteologicae. 1767.
National Library of Medicine
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The meteors are now even meatier! 🖖

UFOs by Franco-American, 1983.
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How long have we needed and yearned for the term “surrural” in our lives before now?! Could surrburban be next?
“Definitely part of the original idea was to do something somewhere between surreal and rural,” Waits said in a statement. “We call it surrural. That’s what these songs are: surrural. There’s an element of something old about them, and yet it’s kind of disorienting….”
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Mooooooon!
“A Gift from the Moon” by Kat Philbin.
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A river scene from Aisaburō Akiyama's Sights of Old Capital (1919).
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Chill vibes?

The Sea of Ice (1823/24) Caspar David Friedrich
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A is for AMY who fell down the stairs.

Edward Gorey
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Handbook for the Recently Deceased - Beetlejuice prop (1988)
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“Come straggling in your tattered remnants.
You’ll come to me with tears and blame.
I’m tomorrow, I am the future, I am the end.”

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Le woof. 🐶

A King Charles Spaniel (c. 1866) by Édouard Manet. National Gallery of Art.
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All tomorrow’s parties …

Title: Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground Artist: Unknown Date of image: 1968, printed 1968
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good boiz … errr … bravi ragazzi?

Roman marble statue of a pair of dogs, 2nd century AD
British Museum
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The four dogs palette, displaying canines, giraffes, and other quadrupeds.
Naqada III, ca. 3200-2700 BC. Now in the Louvre. E 11052
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Or, to put it another way: misery’s the river of the world. Everybody row! 😏

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