Monthly Archives: August 2012

Tragic Beauty of Decadence

Elizabeth Bachner on the tragic pursuit of fantasy and beauty “Odds are I’m alive. /Odds are, like a jockey gone to slop,/ There’s skip and nimble in me yet, /There’s a length of neck to stake, and there’s cunning, /And … Continue reading

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Ordos Museum by MAD — Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China

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“There was a world…Or was it all a dream?

A Modern Helen of Troy

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A Tree in Wanaka, New Zealand

Trees by Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the sweet earth’s flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts … Continue reading

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Modern Beauties

From Flavorwire: “Best known for his work on Red Colored Elegy, an underground Japanese manga from the early ’70s, Manchuria-born artist Seiichi Hayashi more recently drew a striking series of illustrations of young women that were featured in a 2008 … Continue reading

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