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DANIEL DEFOE
On the aftermath of the plague
“The people, hardened by the danger they had been in, like seamen after a storm is over, were more wicked and more stupid, more bold and hardened, in their vices and immoralities than they were before."
thanks to @davidrieff
I grew up with this “Self Portrait by Egon Schiele, who died on this day, in 1918
🔳 Albrecht Dürer
Died on this day, in 1528
🎨 “Melencolia” (1514)
🔳 J. W. GOETHE
Died on this day in 1832
“Every reader reads himself into the book.”
Readers browsing through the bomb-damaged library of Holland House, London, 1940 / Maira Kalman, "Blitz"
@rabihalameddine & @MairaKalman
"Oblomov raised himself from his chair a little, but failing to find his slippers with his feet at once, sat down again."
~ Ivan Goncharov