# faustianfriday bookchatweekly art otd

"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)

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"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness."
(Joseph Conrad)

🎨 Thomas Moran

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Although their real existence is not proven, it is said that, on stormy nights, the Galician RAQUEIROS (from English wrecker) tied torches to the horns of cows and released them on the cliffs, to confuse the ships that sailed near the coast and cause their wreck.

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C18th sentimentalism forever changed the public grieving of a child’s death. The intellectual Sir Brooke Boothby, lost his child Penelope (age 6). On her sad tomb it read: ‘The unfortunate parents ventured their all on this frail bark and the wreck was total.’

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‘The Visit at Moonlight’ by E.T. Parris (1832)

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Second Fool: "Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a carpenter?"

First Fool: "...a gravemaker: the houses that he makes last till doomsday."

--Hamlet, Shakespeare.
🎨Caspar David Friedrich (1810)

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2022-11-11

Ravens are considered Psychopomps (Greek ψυχοπομπός, means guide of souls), entities depicted in many cultures, that guides the souls into the afterlife or messengers between worlds.#faustianfriday
🎵My Music and art: "Facing the Dream" feat crows https://t.co/uyDfxGY3ej

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"And cried, homesick for his fair native lake:
"Rain, when will you fall? Thunder, when will you roll?"
I see that hapless bird, that strange and fatal myth"
(Baudelaire)

🎨 Jan Asselijn (c 1650)

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“You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.”
Martin Luther 

Painting Adolphe Mossa
"Hoc volo, sic iubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas"⬇️

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Strzyga (Strix): Slavic Malevolent Winged Female Demon With Two Souls That Usually Haunts Churches, Towers, Barns https://t.co/SvfBrVXzWd

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"but another crows
beneath the earth,
a soot-red cock,
in the halls of Hel" (Völuspá)

Three cocks crowing foretell the coming of the end of days, as prophesied to Odin by a völva in the Poetic Edda.

🎨 Gris Grimly

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2022-11-04

A Flemish tale says a bird followed a man. One day the bird shapeshifted into a skull. The man had to go to communion to know if the shapeshifter was in heaven or hell. A smell of fire surrounded the man and the print of a burned hand was left on his property.

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"...it means a death is close, and in that way they are like ravens or crows" (Margaret Atwood)

Darklings!

Welcome to a ominously feathered

RTs between 10am - 10pm CET

🎨 Caspar David Friedrich "Tree of Crows" (c 1822)

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“Then he saw them. The gulls." (du Maurier)

Darklings,

Tell your tales and share your images of

"Fiendish Fowl – Feathered Omens and Devilish Birds"

for

RTs Friday between 10 am - 10pm CET

🎨 Segatini

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2022-11-02

This is the place where the dark deals get made...


by Adam Oehlers

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2022-10-28

"Out of silent mountains and storms of affliction, rusheth my soul into the valleys" (Nietzsche)

Richard Strauss's "An Alpine Symphony" premiered 1915 in Berlin

🎨 Loutherbourg "An Avalanche in the Alps" (1803)

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Miss Calder, deceased, still looks after the children at the Pallid Rock Orphanage on the island of .

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2022-10-21

🍂🖤🍂"I believe - I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!"

📖Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

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