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"It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves? Euripides speaks of the Maenads: head thrown I back, throat to the stars, "more like deer than human being." To be absolutely free! One is quite capable, of course, of working out these destructive passions in more vulgar and less efficient ways. But how glorious to release them in a single burst! To sing, to scream, to dance barefoot in the woods in the dead of night, with no more awareness of mortality than an animal! These are powerful mysteries. The bellowing of bulls. Springs of honey bubbling from the ground. If we are strong enough in our souls we can rip away the veil and look that naked, terrible beauty right in the face; let God consume us, devour us, unstring our bones. Then spit us out reborn."

— Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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The mouth of a sea cave. Queen Titania's book of fairy tales. 1883.

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They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded.

- Deuteronomy 32:17

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Satan Viewing the Ascent to Heaven", Illustration for "Paradise Lost", Book 3, Line 301

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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

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Gustave Moreau (1826- 1898)

Angels of Sodom', c1846-1898.

Gustave Moreau was a major figure in the French Symbolist movement, whose main emphasis was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures.

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Illustration for the Left Hand of Darkness - Vanessa Lemen.

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“The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.”

— Aleister Crowley

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A Moonlight Phantasy, circa 1930 by Hilda Hechle.

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Grant Tyson Reynard (American, 1887-1967) - Romantic Interlude

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Source: https://pin.it/mLlwJ77

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The Four Disgracers - Tantalus, Phaeton, Icarus, and Ixion (1588) by Hendrick Goltzius

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𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟹𝟷, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[ID: July 31. But I will write in spite of everything, absolutely; it is my struggle for self-preservation. END ID]