An Illustration Of How The 5th Century BCE Erechtheion On The Athenian Acropolis May Have Looked With

art as a confession James Baldwin (The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman), Albert Camus (Notebooks, 1935-1942)

'people have always been people' goes for simple human compassion & humor but only if it also means understanding that historical people have always been as complex and nuanced and innovative as they are now. their food and clothing and language and tools, particularly of ordinary people, however different than you're used to, should not be assumed to represent cultural inferiority or that those people had inferior tastes or intelligence or capacity for feeling than you do

Castle seen from forest by Mark Ferrari.

Lament for the Rohirrim, J.R.R. Tolkien

The End of the Sons of Feanor

"Delay", Leonard Cohen

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