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“Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,” he said slowly, “likely that we are going to our doom: the last March of the Ents. But if we stayed at home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

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Alexander McQueen for Givenchy Haute Couture Fall/Winter 1999-2000

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Ruggiero Rescuing Angelica by Paul-Joseph Blanc (1876)

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"Tannhauser" (ca.1878) oil on canvas by the German painter Gabriel von Max (1840- 1915). National Museum in Warsaw, Poland. Legend has it that Tannhauser is a knight and poet who discovers the Mount of Venus (Venusberg) underground, where the goddess Venus lives.

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“All her joints were loosened as she lay in the chair, and the fair Goddess the while was giving her gifts immortal.” from The Odyssey of Homer by W. Russell Flint (1924)

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ILLUMINATED MINIATURE QUR’AN IN FITTED BOX (Turkey, Ottoman, dated 951 H/1544 AD).

Arabic manuscript on paper consisting of 325 leaves plus 2 flyleaves. Written in black ink, ruled in black, gold and blue. Completed 3 Safar 951 AH (April 1544 AD) and dedicated to Shams al-Din Yusef Qabji.

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“The devil doesn’t come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you’ve ever wished for.”

— Tucker Max

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-Jacob and the Angel-

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Prometheus brings fire to mankind (1817) - Johann Heinrich Füeger

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Portrait of a Woman Holding a Pencil and a Drawing Book; Robert-Jacques Lefèvre

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The Guardian of Paradise, 1889 Franz von Stuck

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The Great Circle Henry Daubrez @henrydaubrez

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Annina Dietzenbacher, Musée du Louvre, Paris

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The Fairy Ring (George Cruikshank, 1855)