Berthe Morisot

Cemetery deer.

Isn’t it too dreamy?

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Apollo e Daphne.

from Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

Élisabeth Lacoin, from a letter to Simone de Beauvoir written in October 1929

𝔐𝔞𝔠𝔞𝔟𝔯𝔢 ℭ𝔬𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔬𝔯 (@mater.mortem)

now all I need is to have a large library in an old house, which is located on the outskirts of a small town, with a lot of magic books that can help make a potion for a variety of purposes, cure a person or predict the future