WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

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

🎨 Alice Pike Barney "Ceres" (1901)

#ofdarkandmacabre #Saturnalia

"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

#ofdarkandmacabre #bookchatweekly

"Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city." (Dickens)

🎨 Schindler (1886)

#bookchatweekly #ofdarkandmacabre

"These Tuatha were great necromancers, skilled in all magic, and excellent in all the arts as builders, poets, and musicians."
(Lady Jane Wilde "Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland)

🎨 Stephen Reid

#bookwormsat with a bow to #superstitionsat

"It can scarcely be owing to chance that three of the masterpieces of the literature of all time, the 'Oedipus Rex' of Sophocles, Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Dostoevsky's 'The Brothers Karamazov' should all deal with the same subject, parricide"
(Sigmund Freud)

#faustianfriday

"Once in my life, once only, my mind wanted something. And behold the miracle! — It was to die!"

Decadent naturalist Stanisław Przybyszewski died #OTD 1927

🎨 Edvard Munch (1894)

"For with my singing I can make
A refuge for my spirit's sake,
A house of shining words, to be
My fragile immortality.” (Sara Teasdale)

🎨 Pauhami

"The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows." (Schiller)

🎨 Aivazovsky

#bookwormsat #ofdarkandmacabre