And Even If The City Falls And One Of Us Survives He Will Carry The City Inside Him On The Roads Of Exile

“and even if the City falls and one of us survives he will carry the City inside him on the roads of exile he will be the City”

— Zbigniew Herbert, from “Report from a Besieged City,” trans. Czeslaw Milosz  (via colbertesque)

Thomas Wriothesley (1505–1550), First Earl of Southampton, Hans Holbein the Younger, ca. 1535, European Paintings

Rogers Fund, 1925 Size: Irregular, cut down, 1 1/8 x 1 in. (28 x 25 mm) Medium: Vellum laid on card

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436663

Father and son

And two little cutie kids who worth one thousand kisses

Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.

[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]

“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind. Instead of being a single, downright, bluff piece of work of which no man need feel ashamed, our commonest deeds are set about with a fluttering and flickering of wings, a rising and falling of lights.”

— Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Ah, love

More knights - top is based on Narcissus Changed into a Flower by Nicolas Bernard Lepicie, bottom is based on Ophelia by Jean Baptiste Bertrand.

Edit: My tablet resolution was so bad I didn't realize. You can see the painting now.