Velumnoctis - ✴ 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖊 ✴

Belden C. Lane, The Great Conversation

You would have taken my soul spellbound into your embracing arms as into a magic circle.

— FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN ⚜️ Hyperion, transl. by Ross Benjamin, (2008)

By Moonlight in Neldoreth Forest - Ted Nasmith

Bilal Al-Shams, Sacrifice

Endpapers from Anatole France’s Thaïs by Frank C. Pape (1926)

“Nemesis — the goddess of measure. All those who have overstepped the limit will be pitilessly destroyed.”

— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1942-1951

Eugène Thivier

L'incubo (Le Cauchemar)

The Nightmare, 1894)

“I want to raise up the magic world all round me and live strongly and quietly there.”

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. February 1934