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neil-gaiman: butcherbilly: The Post-Punk / New Wave Super...

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:50:17 -0700

butcherbilly:

The Post-Punk / New Wave Super Friends by Butcher Billy

Who are your heroes?

Reblogged purely to make Amanda smile.

"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us..."

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:22:04 -0800

“To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.”

- Hob Gadling to the King of Dreams [Neil Gaiman]

neil-gaiman: odditiesoflife: Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:20:34 -0800

"Descent into the Maelstrom"

"The Cask of Amontillado"

"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"

"Ligeia"

"The Pit and the Pendulum"

"The Premature Burial"

"The Masque of The Red Death"

"The Tell Tale Heart"

neil-gaiman:

odditiesoflife:

Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe by Harry Clarke

Book illustrator and Irish stained glass artist Harry Clarke’s illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination:

“Descent into the Maelstrom”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”, “Ligeia”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, “The Premature Burial”, “The Masque of The Red Death”, and “The Tell Tale Heart”

The first version of 1919 was restricted to monotone illustrations, while a second iteration with eight color plates and more than twenty four monotone images was published in 1923.

I collect very few things. But I have more than one illustration by Harry Clarke hanging on my walls, which means I sort of collect them. None of them are his Poe illustrations, though. (There’s a Faust, an unused Hans Christian Anderson, and some sketches for The Year’s In The Spring).

His art makes me so happy, and I could not tell you why.

"For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. And..."

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:20:26 -0800

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”

- T.S. Eliot (via nirvikalpa)

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Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:20:13 -0800

"…I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously,..."

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:57:27 -0800

“…I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.”

- Neil Gaiman [2008]

"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine..."

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:54:49 -0800

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”

- Neil Gaiman [2001]

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:24:31 -0800

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and..."

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:21:26 -0800

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”

- Douglas Adams

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Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:21:07 -0800

thejapanesewoodblock: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Full Moon in...

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:20:35 -0800

thejapanesewoodblock:

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Full Moon in Mushasi, 100 Aspects of the Moon, 1890

monaux: Poe.

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:19:01 -0800

monaux:

Poe.

Michelle Morin

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:24:06 -0800

Michelle Morin

"Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth..."

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:22:43 -0800

“

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.

Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.

Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.

”

- W.H. Auden - “The More Loving One”

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Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:22:20 -0800

"Every time I venture out into the world I find myself asking if people really want to change. It is..."

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:06:28 -0800

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Every time I venture out into the world I find myself asking if people really want to change. It is so very rare to find an individual who is content with his mode of life. Even the great souls appear to be disturbed, if not by reason of their own shortcomings then because of humanity’s sad lot. Those who have surmounted these problems, or transcended them, are virtually unknown to us; they are already living in the world of the future. It is interesting to reflect that, could one question these isolated spirits, these mages, sages or saints, the answer would probably be: “Accept the world as it is!” Only through complete acceptance, they would insist, dose one arrive at emancipation.

But it is not emancipation that the great majority seeks. When pressed, most men will admit that it takes but little to be happy. (Not that they practice this wisdom!) Man craves happiness here on earth, not fulfillment, not emancipation. Are they utterly deluded, then, in seeking happiness? No, happiness is desirable, but it is a by-product, the result of a way of life, not a goal which is forever beyond one’s grasp. Happiness is achieved en route. And if it be ephemeral, as most men believe, it can also give way, not to anxiety or despair, but to a joyousness which is serene and lasting. To make happiness the goal is to kill it in advance. If one must have a goal, which is questionable, why not self-realization? The unique and healing quality in this attitude toward life is that in the process the goal and seeker become one.

”

- Henry Miller, Stand Still Like The Hummingbird (via buynewsoul)

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Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:24:31 -0800

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Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:22:42 -0800

malformalady: The sheep had drowned while trying to cross a...

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:19:13 -0800

malformalady:

The sheep had drowned while trying to cross a small canal in the meadow-swamp ‘Tøndermasken’ in southern Jylland in Denmark. Birds had eaten every part above the surface and everything under was left totally untouched. Via TYWKIWDBI

Photo credit: Johannes Bojesen

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Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:19:04 -0800