For the first time in years the tears were streaming down his face. But they were for himself now. He did not care about mouth and eyes and moving hands. He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back any more. The gates were closed, the sun was gone down, and there was no beauty but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished. “Long ago,” he said, “long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more
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Winter Dreams, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via claraalcotttumblr) |
I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.
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Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping (via creatingaquietmind) (Source: larmoyante, via shukr-with-my-coffee) |
“Flyn Vibert believes in the beauty and quality of imperfection while chasing the idea of perfection. As all artists do. And he’s doing it his way. He calls it ‘poorer’ photography, a technique that eschews photoshop, re-touching and darkroom manipulation. As for shop bought filters? No. Not for him. Instead this artist makes his own filters; using disparate materials such as coffee, milk and sugar and then re-lights and re-shoots for the final effect.”
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I need this cup.
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The 30,000-Year-Old Cave That Descends Into Hell
There’s a cave in France where no humans have been in 26,000 years. The walls are full of fantastic, perfectly-preserved paintings of animals, ending in a chamber full of monsters 1312-feet underground, where CO2 and radon gas concentrations provoke hallucinations.
It’s called the the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave, a really weird and mysterious place. The walls contain hundreds of animals—like the typical Paleolithic horses and bisons—but some of them are not supposed to be there, like lions, panthers, rhinos and hyenas.
A few are not even supposed to exist, like weird butterflyish animals or chimerical figures half bison half woman. These may be linked to the hallucinations. The trip is such that some archeologists think that it had a ritual nature, with people transcending into a new state as they descended into the final room.
In fact, the paintings themselves are of such sophistication—some even have three-dimensional relief—that is hard to believe they were made back then. However, radiocarbon dating shows that these paintings are indeed prehistoric: A group was made around 27,000-26,000 years ago and the other at 32,000-30,000 years ago.
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