Nicole Kidman at the Interview with the Vampire Los Angeles Premiere
a chassidic tale- a young boy woke up every morning hours before he needed to be awake just to go into the woods before school. when he got home, his mother would ask him what he was doing awake so early again. he told her “i go into the woods to talk to Gd”, to which she replied “you don’t need to go to the woods for that. you know Gd is the same everywhere, right?” and the little boy said “i know. but i’m not.”
Alfred Gilbert's "St. Michael", a version of a figure from the tomb of the Duke of Clarence, Windsor.
*Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode comes on*
"Aw shit not again I'm at work" *thigh-high leather platform boots materialize on my body*
James Baldwin, from Collected Essays; "Notes of a Native Son"
[Text ID: It began to seem that one would have to hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be opposition. The first idea was acceptance, the acceptance, totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are: in the light of this idea, it goes without saying that injustice is commonplace. But this did not mean that one could be complacent, for the second idea was of equal power: that one must never, in one's own life, accept these injustices as commonplace but must fight them with all one's strength. This fight begins, however, in the heart and it now had been laid to my charge to keep my own heart free of hatred and despair.]
‘Thoth and the Chief Magician’, 1925. Evelyn Pau