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'This I do vow & this shall ever be; I will be true despite thy scythe & thee'
(Shakespeare Sonnet 124) Art Charles Robinson

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2022-07-23

'About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.'
-Virginia Woolf

🎨Constantin Meunier

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2022-07-21

"So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.
But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk" (Baudelaire)

🎨 H. Privat-Livemont (1896)

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2022-07-20

“… some watery hell, where the air grew stagnant, and no sound disturbed the slumbers of the kraken.” (Poe)

24 101
2022-07-20

1/2



Where am I here?
Suffocating!
Oh omnipresent fear!
Struggling!

Claustrophobia overwhelms
and just a bit of light!
Who condemns
me to this world of ghost white?

4 18
2022-07-18

“I was dead and drowned. I lay on the bottom of the fishhouse creek looking up at the night sky through a low tide. I could make out amber lights of stars and the moon dulled by the peat water of the creek."
―Mark Richard, Fishboy

8 44
2022-07-17

"The flesh is sad, alas! – and I’ve read all the books.
Let’s go! Far off. Let’s go! I sense
That the birds, intoxicated, fly
Deep into unknown spume and sky!" (Stéphane Mallarmé "Sea Breeze")

🎨 Tissot (c 1878)

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2022-07-16

‘Haunted’ from The Tatler, circa November, 1927 😱

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2022-07-16

“So mickle was this storm that the men said it was the work of enchantment” (Heimskringla V)

Scottish weather wizards raise a storm off the Hebrides and send King Hákon Hákonarson (d. 1263) and fleet on his way back to Norway

🎨 Waterhouse

12 55
2022-07-14

"Out yonder, under the shining vault,
among men the saying goes: "Man, be thyself!"
At home here with us, 'mid the tribe of the trolls,
the saying goes: "Troll, to thyself be-enough!" (Ibsen)

🎨 Kittelsen

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2022-07-13

“And tears are heard within the harp I touch.” (Petrarch)

🎨 Michał Elwiro Andriolli c 1880

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2022-07-13

'A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.'
-Jean Rhys

🎨Edmund Dulac

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2022-07-12

Gothic butterfly

by David Aguirre Hoffmann

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2022-07-12

“Up the still, glistening beaches,
Up the creeks we will hie,
Over banks of bright seaweed
The ebb-tide leaves dry.
...
Singing: "There dwells a loved one,
But cruel is she!
She left lonely for ever
The kings of the sea" (Matthew Arnold)

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2022-07-10

'...but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood.'
-Mary Shelley

🎨Cipriano Mannucci

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2022-07-07

I always understood the Korrigans to be ghost-fees, the shades of pagan priestesses, according to the great Katherine Briggs in 'Fairy Lore & Legends'.

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2022-07-06

Elijah in the Wilderness, Frederic Leighton, c. 1877–1878.

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2022-06-29

Only the wise old owl knows your fate…
Board game covers for 'Chiromagica or The Hand of Fate’, a fortune-telling game by McLoughlin Bros (1858-1920, New York)
Wizard with trusty owl edition c.1901; Witch & black cats, bats & owls edition c.1903

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2022-06-27

"I gazed upon the glorious sky
And the green mountains round,
And thought that when I came to lie
At rest within the ground,
'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June
When brooks send up a cheerful tune,"

(1/2)
- William Cullen Bryant
🎨 by Jacob van Ruisdael

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2022-06-21