Palazzo Biscari

Robin Isely, Hans Memling - Man of Sorrows c.  1480.

I honestly love Carmina Burana. It’s either “Oh, Mighty Fate! Who will love me? Do not let me die!” or “he’s drinking, she’s drinking, everybody’s drinking, also I have an erection” with nothing in between.

i heard the music of true forgiveness filling the theater, conferring on all who sat there, perfect absolution. god was singing through this little man to all the world, unstoppable, making my defeat more bitter with every passing bar.

amadeus, nineteen-eight four — dir. miloš forman.

Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727-1788)

sub·lime

/səˈblīm/

adjective  of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe.