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Lord Byron - a portrait by Théodore Géricault

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Albéniz (arr. Naughtin) - Suite Española No. 1: V. Asturias - Leyenda

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Alchemical Lyon, William Wiley, 2007

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James Joyce - a portrait by Berenice Abbott

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Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf (1927)

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𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟸𝟾, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

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Dioptase with Bayldonite - Tantara Mine, Katanga (Shaba), Congo

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Robin Isely, Hans Memling. Man of Sorrows c.1480.

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2023 archive

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Tacca chantrieri by horticultural art [above]

Sources and further reading:

Predicting mating patterns from pollination syndromes: the case of “sapromyiophily” in Tacca chantrieri (Taccaceae)

Evaluation of horticultural traits and seed germination of Tacca chantrieri

Pertaining to another species in the genus: Floral Visitation, Pollen Removal, and Pollen Transport of Tacca cristata Jack (Dioscoreaceae) by Female Ceratopogonid Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

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We're almost there.

― Darren Aronofsky, “The Fountain”

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le baiser dans la lune // idk I barely scraped a B in French

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simran, full of emptiness

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“There’s a war in me between dark and darker, between the shadows and the things they hide.”

— This isn’t a story about courage. This is a story about fear. – s.s.