"stories run through my body
and purr in my lap…"
and purr in my lap…"
— Gabriela Mistral, “The Storyteller”
October 23, 2011
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“awkwardly we bump into stars
we see nothing we hear nothing
we beat with our fists on the dark ether”— Zbigniew Herbert, from “First the Dog,” trans.... -
“Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.”
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“So, I say, what of the night, the terrible night?”— Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
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Federico Hurtado.
Nos tienen miedo porque no tenemos miedo
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Erté Harper’s Bazaar cover; perfect for this time of year.
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Pelagio Palagi, Unfinished Portrait, 19th century
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These images come from the fabled manuscript, ‘Liber Floridus’ (Book of Flowers), a Medieval encyclopædia produced some 900 years ago...
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