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“With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.”

― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

🎨Henrique Alvim Corrêa

11 72
2023-06-29

“I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath.” (Wilkie Collins "Woman in White")

20 75
2022-11-04

It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. “No, I’ll look first,” she said, “and see whether it’s marked ‘poison’ or not.”
—Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

🎨 John Tenniel

17 78
2022-10-21



All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words

Amy Lowell : 'Sword, blade & poppy seed' 1914

🎨 Jonathan Wolstenholme

13 25
2022-10-20

“The first thing I heard after not hearing anything was the sound of her crawling up the stairs." (Toni Morrison)

... and Beloved turns out to be a parasitic, food-devouring ghost, literally starving her mother

🎨 Joe Morse

10 54
2022-10-20

“And the sun poured in like butterscotch”

Indeed, a sunshiny & magical cat it is ☀️

🎨 Joni Mitchell, Brian Froud


6 16
2022-10-13

'O Lady Moon, your horns point toward the east:
Shine, be increased;
O Lady Moon, your horns point toward the west:
Wane, be at rest.'

~Christina Rossetti

[Art by Frederick Stuart Church]

31 82
2022-10-06

“Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul....I listened to her as she spoke in her beautiful voice, spoke of things which even now I would dare not whisper in the blackest night, though I stood in the midst of a wilderness” (Machen)

27 135
2022-09-30

Alejandra Pizarnik's "La condesa Sangrienta" ("The Bloody Countess") is a work of fiction about Elizabeth Báthory. It is based on Valentine Penrose's "La comtesse sanglante." Pizarnik focuses on the violence and eroticism of Báthory's legend
🎨Santiago Caruso

16 70
2022-09-29

“I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

6 40
2022-09-29