I have always lived violently…eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I’ve lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.
John Steinbeck
The Birth of Venus by Henri Gervex (1863)
"Aphrodite of the beautiful buttocks" is an Ancient Roman marble statue, thought to be a copy of an older Greek original. In an example of anasyrma, it depicts a partially draped woman, raising her light peplos to uncover her hips and buttocks, and looking back and down over her shoulder, perhaps to evaluate them. The subject is conventionally identified as Aphrodite / Venus, though it may equally be a portrait of a mortal woman.
Fuuuuck dude the faeries hollowed me out and are using me as a puppet to go buy cigarettes
The Temple of Poseidon with a captivating Crescent Moon and Venus, Cape Sounion, Greece
Venus Disrobing for the Bath by Frederic Leighton (19th Century)
like i care