I Found A 1937 Article On Robespierre’s Lesser Known Parisian Residence (in The Marais: Rue Saintonge,

I love the dim & warm lighting that lamps gives off... it’s like a little hug

I was NOT psychologically prepared to read Eisenstein’s screenplay for Ivan the Terrible. There’s a “deleted scene” where Fyodor Basmanov chases a Zemshchina girl who (understandably) thinks he’s trying to sexually assault her until he says “no, I just want your earrings,” then he takes her earrings and and holds them up (I’m going to say probably to his own ears), then his father comes in and takes them away. This emotionally destroyed me for reasons I can’t fully articulate. 

14 second compilation of various renfields eating shit

Yoshida Toshi Mendocino, Sunrise

with reverse

home by the sea.. .

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Fouché

Aeschylus (trans. Anne Carson), from An Oresteia; “Agamemnon”

i wonder if the flute was a transverse flute or a recorder (i'm not sure that this is the right translation)? 👀

List of Saint-Just’s personal possessions part V: Miscellaneous

Absolutely everything Saint-Just had in his apartment was sold, down to his tableware. This small list of his remaining possessions will give you an insight into the objects he used, what they were made of and what light they could have shed over their owner’s character. 

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