Living Mirrors Illuminate The Water 🪩

tweeted excerpts from A Field Guide to Getting Lost, via Rebecca Solnit's twitter

Illustrations from Marat’s Recherches physiques sur le Feu, 1780

Maggie Nelson, Bluets

Not to be a fangirl but I keep those preciously in my treasure box for over a decade

thoughts on death and marriage and girls

(sophocles, antigone 891-4, c. 441 bce; ovid, metamorphoses x.1-7, 8 ce; phrasikleia kore inscription, 550-530 bce; euripides, iphigenia in aulis 1502-3, 405 bce)

inspired by @regenderate and @risissecupido and also joan breton connelly and nicole loraux

brutus 🤝 antony 🤝 cassius 🤝 casca 🤝 decim......

people

even in death we do not part

𝘐𝘯 𝘈 𝘞𝘦𝘦𝘬 - 𝘏𝘰𝘻𝘪𝘦𝘳 | 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 - 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘵 | “𝘚𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘸𝘦’𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴” - 𝘮𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘺𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 | 𝘔𝘢𝘺 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘯 |  𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 - 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘴𝘢𝘦​ | 𝘖𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘪 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘶 | | 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦 | 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘰 | 𝘚𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 - 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘖𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳 | 𝘚𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘪𝘺𝘢 | 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 - 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 | “𝘋𝘰 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘞𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘛𝘰 𝘋𝘪𝘦 𝘛𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳?” 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘴 | 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘱 𝘓𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯 | 𝘑𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘦 𝘏𝘴𝘶 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘑𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨 - 𝘡𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘓𝘪𝘯 | 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘥 - 𝘡𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘓𝘪𝘯  | 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 - 𝘧𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘩 | 𝘙𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 #3 - 𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 | 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘭 <3- 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘰𝘧𝘮𝘢𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢 | 𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘵𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 | | 𝘌𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘤𝘩

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing (so devoted the lines blur)

Ivan The Terrible Part 1 and 2 + art parallels

“Eagle Over 100,000 Acre Plain at Susaki, Fukagawa” - Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857 (detail) // “The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb” - Hans Holbein the Younger, 1520-22 (detail) //  “Portrait of Giuliano de’ Medici” - Sandro Botticelli, 1478 //  “The Lamentation over the Dead Christ” - Sandro Botticelli, 1490-92 (detail) //  “The Demon Downcast” - Mikhail Vrubel, 1902 (detail) //  “Fair Rosamund and Eleanor” - Frank Cadogan Cowper, 1920