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“The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and returned to their ports to tell of it.” (Melville)
Once upon a time, in the waters near Bikini at new moon.
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@kazerin @LauraLerch @bthomasa @MaeneSigne @DikmenMec I suppose that was the Gewitterziege's fault, power-outage-wise... thunderstorm goat, literally, long story, but...
@MaeneSigne Good luck with the finishing touches - and don't forget to tie those poor pens this time, eh?
"The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses."
Walter Sickert was born #OTD 1860
🎨 "The Camden Town Murder" (1908)
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@MaeneSigne @kazerin @bthomasa Now, that would be absolutely appropriate! Think of Manfred's his Alpine Witch!
"Though as a ghost,
I shall lightly tread,
the summer fields."
(Hokusai)
Yūrei are Japan's restless spirits, mostly women, who haunt the night still dressed in their white burial kimonos
🎨 "Female Ghost in the Moonlight" (c 1850)
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