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In 1921, standing in the portico of the Parthenon in Athens, the famed dancer Isadora Duncan produced a poetic gesture mimicking the classical architecture surrounding her for the camera of Edward Steichen.
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Dark Silence In Suburbia
danh vo was born in vietnam in 1975 and grew up in denmark. he studied at the royal danish academy of fine arts in copenhagen and at städelschule in frankfurt. he currently lives and works in berlin.
Nabokov hunting butterflies above Gstaad, summer 1971, “as a fat hairless old man in shorts” Hello followers, this is me, the creator, inserting myself Pale Fire- style, into the “narrative.”
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Pictured above, The Beauty of the Night , made in 1954 by Max Ernst (1891-1976); in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Vladimir Nabokov. (Fuck, Yeah.)
“If you are not loved, but do not know for sure whether a potential rival is loved or not, and, if there are several, do not know which of them is luckier than you; if you subsist on that hopeful ignorance which helps you to resolve in conjecture an otherwise intolerable agitation; then all is well, you can live.
A Writer's Ruminations
→ May 2012 "You smell of absence Alone you gave birth to yourself" — Vasko Popa, from “Heaven’s Ring” (translated by Charles Simic) → May 2012 "And when a poet dies, deep in the night a lone black bird wakes up in the thicket and sings for all it’s worth" — Miroslav Holub, from “Interferon” (translated by Dana Habova and David Young)
Lady Ottoline Morrell, Maria Huxley (née Nys), Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell (née Stephen) by Unknown photographer [July 1915]