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[Storeroom with Artisans and Plaster Casts, Crystal Palace]. 1852. Credit line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/269619

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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

— John Green.

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~ Ariadne and Dionysus.

Period: Late Roman/Late Antiquity

Date: A.D. 3rd-5th century

Place of origin: Achmim, Egypt

Medium: Wool on linen, colored knitting

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Chiavari, Italy (by Chris Curry)

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Zamek w Krasiczynie, Krasiczyn, Poland,

Photo: Ciap Dron

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You knew your letter would hurt me and the few words you write are so harsh that I cannot tell if they are final. I cannot help being frightened how fragile you are, by how you are at the mercy of every whim. You cannot know what you truly love which means you can truly love nothing, so all is lost (I beg you to write again very soon).

— Georges Bataille, Dora Maar: Paris in the Time of Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and Picasso, from a letter to Dora Maar, (2017)

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Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012 / Cynthia Ozick / Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, from ‘Celebrating Childhood’, Selected Poems / Gregory Orr, from “Origin of the Marble Forest” / Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by. C.F. MacIntyre, Sonnets to Orpheus / John Boyne, The Absolutist

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MK Čiurlionis: a Lithuanian artist that did nothing but paint and compose music for 6 years straight. Most paintings rarely leave Lithuania because they’re incredibly fragile (he couldn’t afford the durability of oil paints or large canvas) so I feel blessed to have seen his mythological cities, anthropomorphic mountains and clouds in a glorious array of colours in person.

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#lolololol

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Luke being given a quest at 17, feeling like there's no glory in it because it's a quest someone's already succeeded before, but then failing that very quest he considered to be beneath him, getting a permanent scar, "ruining it" for the rest of the campers because now no one else can go on quests and earn glory in the eyes of the gods, so he turns to Kronos, and years later here comes a possible candidate for the great prophecy, 12 years old, gets the first quest the camp has done since Luke's fucked it up, and Luke is actively ensuring this quest is an impossible quest!! he's literally rigged it so Percy's gonna fail (the shoes, the bolt appearing in his bag) and then this kid somehow succeeds still??? and not only that, Percy got the unique quest Luke wanted in the first place and achieved feats no one else had and earned glory in the eyes of his father, all because Luke created the circumstances for that to happen??

oh my god yeah I don't think I'd ever recover from that either

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call me by your name and I'll call you by mine

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The Ardross Wolf stone, this Pictish artwork dates from circa 6th/7th century AD

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Pompeii. House of Menander, peristyle and the fresco that gave the house its name. 

Photography by Silvia Vacca

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Pianist and composer Cecile Chaminade receiving the Legion of Honor (Silent Film 1913)