JMW Turner, ‘The Burning Of The Houses Of Lords And Commons’ (c.1834)

fr. “An Oresteia” trans. by Anne Carson

new favorite tweet

"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."

vs

"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."

Franz Skarbina (1877) Der Alte Fritz als Rückenfigur

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. 

Agnes Giberne - The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars.

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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*makes pigeon noises at 3am to archive maximum virtue*