“It is a scene terrifically desolate. In a thousand spots the traces of the winter avalanche may be perceived, where trees lie broken… The sea, or rather the vast river of ice, wound among its dependent mountains...”

—Mary Shelley, died 1851

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Village in the Snow by Belgian painter Leo Piron (1899-1962).

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THE TIDDY ONES Lincolnshire. Wonderful local name for the fen fairies. The Tiddy Mun controls the floods (Briggs). Assorted fen fey folk by Rackham (1867-1939)

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"Lighting one candle
from another -
Winter night" (Buson)

🎨 Tsuchiya Koitsu "Snow at Miyajima" (1937)

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Moonlit Winter Landscape
Remigius Adriannus van Haanen
(1812- 1894)

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The walls of the palace were formed of drifted snow, and the windows and doors of the cutting winds. [The rooms] were so large and empty, so icy cold and glittering! There were no amusements here[…] Empty, vast, and cold were the halls of the Snow Queen.

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'I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight.'
Mary Shelley, 'Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus,' 1818
🎨Roberto Viacava

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Edmund Koken, 'View of a Church-Yard Entrance in Winter,' 1862

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The painting 'Man Proposes, God Disposes' (1864) by Sir Edwin Landseer was inspired by John Franklin's lost expedition. The story is dramatised in Season 1 of 'The Terror'(2018), a series based on Dan Simmons's novel. I discovered this series thanks to

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"I held out my hand to my step-mother. But her hand,pure ice and rigid,chilled me to the bone. I stammered out a greeting,but even as I spoke,my step-mother averted her eyes from mine"🧛‍♀️
Rubén Darío,"Thanathopia,"translation by Peter Robertson https://t.co/Lo3CsppRBu

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EAST OF EDEN: A GUIDE TO ANGELS Sam George over on blog: warring angels, fallen angels, guardian angels, angel fiction, angels in film, the hierarchy of angels https://t.co/bdzCYCzebb

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“June suns, you cannot store them
To warm the winter's cold,
The lad that hopes for heaven
Shall fill his mouth with mould.”
― A.E. Housman

🎨 Caspar David Friedrich "Cairn in the Snow" (1807)

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