WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

"After dinner my father asked him if he played the piano. He said, "Yes, I can a little," and he sat down at the piano. Then he played a Hungarian csardas - wild, rhapsodic, wonderful. That is the music which makes men mad." (Stenbock)

🎨 Nikolay Samokish

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@MaeneSigne @hecazerin Indded quite Pokémon-like... Mukrow sends their regards!

"Those are the eyes of the dead, truly,
No loving hand has closed their void" (Goethe)

🎨 Fritz Roeber (1910)

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@SaltMirrorsCats If that helps & supports... even Conrad will wear one!

"Erect in his armor, a tall man carved from stone
Was standing at the helm and cutting the black flood;
But the hero unmoved, leaning on his rapier,
Kept gazing at the wake and deigned not look aside"

(Baudelaire "Don Juan in Hades")

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"All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask." (Melville)

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"And I told how I came from Ireland, which is of Europe, whereat the captain and all the sailors laughed, for they said, There are no such places in all the land of dreams” (Lord Dunsany)

🎨Sidney Sime

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"It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice."
(Wallace Stevens)

🎨 Eyvind Earle

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"Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth."
(John Ruskin)

🎨 Charles Livingston Bull

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"We were immured in ice and should probably never escape" (Mary Shelley)

🎨 Bernie Wrightson

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