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@kazerin I mean... where is Louis Wain when you need him, eh?

@MaeneSigne Why, it's me, eh? :-)

@MaeneSigne That goes without saying :-)

@NicoleHenneman Now that you mention it...

"Life has not ceased to be a riddle, nor has death lost its sting, and again man sighs amid moans of torment: "Wherefore?"" (Stanisław Przybyszewski, #BOTD 1868)

🎨 Jacek Maleczewski "Thanatos II" (1899)

#ofdarkandmacabre #bookwormsat

"Here is coldness, impetuousness, dying, and despair" (Goethe)

Caspar David Friedrich died #OTD 1840

🎨 "The Abbey in the Oak Forest" (c 1810, the painting Goethe is referring to above)

#ofdarkandmacabre

“Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.” (Frank Herbert "Dune")

🎨 John Schoenherr

#wyrdwednesday #ofdarkandmacabre

“If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.”

Bookworm and teller of Gothic tales Charles Nodier was born #OTD 1780

“His mind now misgave him; he began to doubt whether both he and the world around him were not bewitched." (W. Irving)

Awae' wi' the fae for 20 years, Rip van Winkle discovers that the future did not make his world a more welcoming place

#wyrdwednesday #ofdarkandmacabre

"Accursed the heart that does not know restraint"

Heinrich v. Kleist's unplayable "Penthesilea" finally premiered #OTD 1876 in Berlin, 65 years after the author's suicide

🎨 Maurice Sendak (1998)

#ofdarkandmacabre #mythologymonday