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As the two wayfarers came within the precincts of the town, the children of the Puritans looked up from their play⁠—or what passed for play with those sombre little urchins⁠—and spake gravely one to another:⁠— “Behold, verily, there is the woman of the scarlet letter; and, of a truth, moreover, there is the likeness of the scarlet letter running along by her side! Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!” But Pearl, who was a dauntless child, after frowning, stamping her foot, and shaking her little hand with a variety of threatening gestures, suddenly made a rush at the knot of her enemies, and put them all to flight. She resembled, in her fierce pursuit of them, an infant pestilence⁠—the scarlet fever, or some such half-fledged angel of judgment⁠—whose mission was to punish the sins of the rising generation. She screamed and shouted, too, with a terrific volume of sound, which, doubtless, caused the hearts of the fugitives to quake within them. The victory accomplished, Pearl returned quietly to her mother, and looked up, smiling, into her face.

"The Scarlet Letter", by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

#words

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Conversation - Francesco Pirazzi , 2021.

Italian , b. 1994 -

Oil on canvas , 25 x 34 in. 64 x 87 cm.

#art

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By Bruce Weber

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Clive Arrowsmith - Vivienne Lynn (Harpers and Queen)

#ph

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Motto! Ojamajo Doremi EP 17

#ojamajo doremi #anime

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#style

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SLAM DUNK fanart

#slam dunk #my babies my loves #fanart

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finally watched the first slam dunk… oh my god inoue 😭

#fucking insane. #somehow the long anticipated arc was animated and told in such brilliance that even i couldn’t have guessed the angle inoue took to tell it. #and i’ve been a fan of slam dunk since childhood. i still did not see this coming. raw palpable and dynamic to the bone. #like. i know the arc obviously i know the story but the shift in pov was so unexpected yet welcomed it felt like i was watching #slam dunk for the first time even though i obviously am just a die hard fan reporting for duty #i have tears in my eyes from how excellent that was #i love him i love him what a master storyteller his direction was stellar he gave all these characters a third life if you could believe it #i say third because the original anime was their second and the manga was of course their first #felt like i was meeting them for the first time #diary

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#art #moomin #pngs

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Masao Saito, 1981

#food

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1970s marlboro ads, via archive.org

#ph

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i feel so sad about my online friendships and how things are gradually souring with some people i considered very special back when i was 15.

#diary #this is so vague and i’m not willing to elaborate but my soc media hiatus has sobered me up on a lot of things. and it’s sad.

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ララバイ

#art

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gg4eva ♡

#snsd

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more photos of leonard cohen’s house in hydra, greece 2002.

#interiors #x

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— SALMAN TOOR (a spring night in pakistan)

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makeup by won joyeon for marie claire korea

#makeup #art #editorial