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Odilon Redon

Beatrice

1897

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Naughty Nuns (Inside the Convent): Martin van Maele (mid-19th-century)

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Famous Last Words (An Ode to Eaters), Ethel Cain / Oil paintings by Jen Mazza

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Victimhood between Separation and Communion

This is an article published in Depictions, a special issue dedicated to victimhood. In this paper, I explore the possibility of refusing the separation between victims and perpetrators even when evil actions take place. To do so, I discuss Socrates’ claim that a good man cannot be harmed and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s portrayal of Alyosha Karamazov. I argue that one of the features of people who do…

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Shepherds in eastern Hungary wear the traditional suba, a sheepskin coat, to protect against an autumn chill. Photog. Albert Molvay

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Des femmes disparaissent (aka Girls Disappear, 1959)

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BE DRUNK— CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

the king had his customary flagon of his favorite wine, sweet arbor red, along the way to ease his pain. when his escort arrived and his kingsguard lifted the litter's curtains, aegon II was found dead with blood on his lips.

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The Grotto of the Nymphs, from Pierre Louÿs’ The Songs of Bilitis by Willy Pogany (1926)

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THE CAST OF 'HOUSE OF THE DRAGON' REACTING TO FAN THEORIES ABOUT DAEMON TARGARYEN.

DAEMON IS THE NIGHT KING.

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by Krasska

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Inspired by this post by @mejcinta. I carried the words "loveless limbo" in my head for days and just had to write it out.

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"Armenian Sketches", Vardges Petrosyan (translated by metamorphesque)

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The Color of Pomegranates (Նռան գույնը), dir. Sergei Parajanov (1969)

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'Cynthia and the Unicorn' by Leonard Weisgard, 1967

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'Small Horned Owl on Maple Branch under Full Moon' by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1832

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