7/10 Now let's fantasize a bit and redecorate the rooms and furniture in prehistoric style - stone, horns, wood, shells, natural materials ... To impress the guests, the royal armchair made of horns, and antlers, plus the fur. #PrehistoricHomeDesign #RusticHomeDesign

In his standard work "The Decline of the Ancient World", Otto Seeck cited the extermination of the best" as the determining factor in the general decline of Rome. After the old, tradition-conscious Roman families died out, the human reservoir from which the leaders of political

𝐎 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐑 𝐃𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐎 𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐎 «Com esse pensamento em termos de gerações, chegou-se a um ponto de inflexão decisivo, tanto intelectualmente quanto em termos de política prática, e essa ideia aparentemente simples e evidente tem consequências que são

Rochefoucauld on g: We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible.

Museums are the true prisons of the modern world. Paintings shall not be immured and paraded in front of the vulgar eyes. Rather, they must return to their natural habitats; hidden in the shadows of a grand hall, double-hung in a morning room, evoking a new parlour game, etc.

Ernst Nolte über grosse Figuren in der Geschichte (Perazzoli, 1997)

[“Not quite here, but yet at hand,” gracious and lordly, seductive and enjoining, night-lit and deep-hidden, the spontaneous sounding of the word and the spontaneous sounding of the soul, the unity of language and humanhood; and it was like taking leave of the ageless, erstwhile

λάμπει δὲ σαφὴς ἀρετὰ ἔν τε γυμνοῖσι σταδίοις σφίσιν ἔν τ᾽ ἀσπιδοδούποισιν ὁπλίταις δρόμοις, οἷά τε χερσὶν ἀκοντίζοντες αἰχμαῖς Their excellence shines clearly in the naked footraces, shields crashing, and their casting of spears... Pindar, Isth. 1.22-24

Convenient

Jane & Thomas Carlyle in national portrait gallery—his sole painted portrait on display is one he detested, itself a scowling brass lined slander, its little description plaque spent on qualification as to his “controversial” nature bc he was “racist”, nothing of the man himself

Valkyrie Profile came out around the time when I first gained an interest in Norse mythology. I used to spend my weekly afternoon off reading the two or three books on the subject that I found at my local library. Artistic liberties aside, it was true enough to the poetic Edda.

藤の木はちゃんと手入れしないと毎年花を咲かせてくれないみたいでそういうのを"隔年開花"とか言ったりするみたい。 ここの大藤は大切に管理されてる様だったけど、明治初期には老藤として有名なかなりのお爺ちゃんなのでそういうのも関係してるのかもしれないね。

Loved by no one, he would die without even knowing how to hate. Takeo Arishima, 'Labyrinth'

Painted brown-on-buff ceramic vessels in the shape of geese, Phrygian, Gordion Tumulus P

O, that this too, too sullied (solid) flesh would melt Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon ’gainst self-slaughter

Empfehlung Die Nationalen Forschungs- und Gedenkstätten der DDR brachten von Zeit zu Zeit kleinere Handschriften-Faksimiles heraus. Immer mit einem kleinen Kommentar versehen. Hier von der im GSA liegenden »Prometheus«-Handschrift (12. [!] verbesserte Auflage 1980).