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“come, let us march against the powers of heaven, and set black streamers in the firmament to signify the slaughter of the gods” is such a raw line you’d think it’s from Shakespeare, but it’s actually from the slightly earlier Elizabethan dramatist Christopher Marlowe
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Octavia Butler's notes to herself
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the undertaking by Louise Glück
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John McKirdy Duncan (Scottish, 1866 - 1945), St. Bride, 1913, tempera, oil and gold leaf on canvas.
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Flight Deck of the Space Shuttle Columbia image credit: Eric Long/Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum
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Barry-Windsor Smith, StarReach #7, January 1977
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Utagawa Hiroshige, “Kitsunebi on New Year’s Night under the Enoki Tree near Ōji” (1857)
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The lights of an oil refinery compete with a darkening sky in Houston, Texas. Petrochemical industries dominate the landscape in this city, dubbed the world's energy capital. photo: Lynn Johnson
Dusk casts its soft light over a field of opium poppies near Richmond, Tasmania. These colorful flowers last only a few days as the petals emerge crumpled, then expand, and then fall off. photo: Gerd Ludwig
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Heinrich Jakob Fried, The Blue Grotto, Capri, c.1835
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its so brave that you have such a 2012-coded url in this 2024 world
would you call a bear brave for standing in a new construction suburb or would you recognize the unfamiliar world they built around him
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crystal lupa, "horse of candlelight & grass of nightingale," 2023, oil and gold foil on linen
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