the cathedral
“Hours of Étienne Chevalier”, Tours c. 1452-1460
NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.1.2490
K I N G S T A N N I S B A R A T H E O N I
I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne.
flowers in painting 🖼 💐
Vivien Leigh getting into costume in St. Martin’s Lane (1938)
And I will wait for you.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov | Caravaggio, Bacchus/The Lute Player/Saint Jerome Writing/Young Sick Bacchus (details)
Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
literature: — dorian gray { the picture of dorian gray, oscar wilde }
“Life has everything in store for you, Dorian. There is nothing that you, with your extraordinary good looks, will not be able to do.”
“But suppose, Harry, I became haggard, and old, and wrinkled? What then?”
Hôtel de Ville de La Rochelle, France, photo by Arnaud Atreide
“is this character good or bad” “is this ship unproblematic or not” “is this arc deserving of redemption or not” girl…