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Continuing with some of my favourites…but you have to click on it…
The Priestess of Delphi,
John Collier, 1891.
Illustration from A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Oliver Goldsmith, 1820.
Tonight, I feel a crow is needed.
Crow, Georges-Louis Leclerc in Comte de Buffon's ‘Histoire naturelle’ encyclopedia.
Gustave Moreau’s Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra, 1876, for #SwampSunday Killed by Hercules as his second labour. The hydra lived in the Lake of Lerna which was also an entrance to the underworld.
‘I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.’ Nikos Kazantzakis, The Life and Times of Alexis Zorba. #BookWormSat
🖼 Winslow Homer, c.1869.
Poem: The Witch’s Daughter (not quite finished yet) https://t.co/1ukhQwJjBi