Of noble natures, of the gloomy days
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S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse,
Ma perciocchè giammai di questo fondo
Non tornò vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero,
Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.

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6-1-3: If you could be alive in any decade which one would you choose?

None but this one. To be a fly on a wall during some of history’s greatest decades would be a marvel - artistically, culturally, scientifically. However, to be living within it - socially, economically, medically - is an entirely different matter, and not one worth romanticising.

Edward Collier, “Trompe l’oeil” (1699)
theyearis1770: (via relic)
{from the source} — Basically it’s strings attached to my wrists, that run around the room to connect to a pen hanging from the ceiling in such a way that the left hand controls up-down, and the right (bow) hand controls left-right. I.e. it turns me into a plotter. Then, when I play cello, the gestures of the playing are transmitted into the line in the drawing.
The drawing room at 48 Doughty Street, now the Charles Dickens Museum
Bonnier de la Mosson-Bibliotèque centrale du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (Paris)
Philippe Magnier, “Lutteurs” (1684)
Dorothy Bohm, “Mount Street, Mayfair, London” (1960)
Year of the Fall: A Reichenbach Compilation The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929) ———————- i / doveman / tigers [the fall] ii / w.a. mozart / string quartet no. 8 in f major, k 168 - 2. andante [the funeral] iii / grand salvo / where will you go [the empty flat] iv / dustin o’halloran / opus 43 [the first months apart] v / f. schubert / leise flehen meine lieder [sherlock’s lament] vi / portishead / theme from ‘to kill a dead man’ [on the trail of the last few] vii / max richter / requiem [almost home] viii / max richter / journey 5 [“…sherlock?”] ix / sigur ros / all alright [“john…”] download.
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