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!

"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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"... it is as if a door stands open for the sorrowful gods of the underworld" (Macrobius "Saturnalia")

🎨 Alice Pike Barney "Ceres" (1901)

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"It is asserted that on Christmas morning the ass kneels down in adoration of Christ, and if a person can manage to touch the cross on the back of the animal at that particular moment the wish of his heart will be granted, whatever it may be" (Lady Jane Wilde)

#superstitionsat

“Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,
When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,
And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,
Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom”
(Charles Baudelaire)

🎨 Gustave Caillebotte (1878)

"Fast gliding along, a gloomy bark
Her sails are full, though the wind is still,
And there blows not a breath her sails to fill."
(Thomas Moore)

🎨 Ferdinand Leeke

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