6.20.22 - 6.21.22
last 2 days i went to the mall and a bookstore and then went to see the badguys with a bunch of friends!
Garden of Hope - James Gurney (detail)
Duke Humphrey’s Library, the Bodleian, Oxford. May 2019.
Re-uploading these because I finally figured out how to format them!! I will never stop being grateful for the chance to study here.
“La Rubica” (1954) by Francisco Soria Aedo (1898-1965)
“So with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer,”
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
The Great Gatsby dir. Baz Luhrmann (2013)
i love reading sad books bc when your own grief is stopped up inside you like a clogged drain you can grieve for a character on a page and understand that you're also grieving for yourself a little bit
Paul Merwart (1855-1902, Polish) ~ Refuge before a Storm, 1880
[Source: artvee.com]
Victor Gabriel Gilbert (1847-1935, French) ~ Jeune femme lisant, n/d
[Source: Christie’s]
The Lost Princess of Oz By L. Frank Baum, illustrations by John R. neil (1917)
i remember this exact scene from dracula (1897)