1917 Wedding Dress By Couturier Jeanne Lanvin For Her Daughter Marguerite Marie-Blanche's Wedding. From

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Lila and the Men Around Her: A Means of Possession

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Credit: pictures on the left are from filmmaker Catherine Breillat’s interview at the Berlin Film Festival (originally found on justabore on TikTok)

"You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can."

― Elena Ferrente, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

~ Female face.

Date: ca. 280-150 B.C.

Provinience: Tarquinia, Tomb of the Orcus (Tomb of the Ogre, Tomb of Murina) (Tarquinia, Tomba dell’Orco (Tomba dei Murina)).

The Glass Essay, Anne Carson | Molly Brodak, Molly Brodak

The Shepherdess Of Rolleboise, 1896 Daniel Ridgway Knight

Annie Ling, 81 Bowery, New York, 2011.

It was—she told me—as if, on the night of a full moon over the sea, the intense black mass of a storm advanced across the sky, swallowing every light, eroding the circumference of the moon’s circle, and disfiguring the shining disk, reducing it to its true nature of rough insensate material. Lila imagined, she saw, she felt—as if it were true—her brother break.

Rino, before her eyes, lost the features he had had as long as she could remember, the features of the generous, candid boy, the pleasing features of the reliable young man, the beloved outline of one who, as far back as she had memory, had amused, helped, protected her.

There, amid the violent explosions, in the cold, in the smoke that burned the nostrils and the strong odor of sulfur, something violated the organic structure of her brother, exercising over him a pressure so strong that it broke down his outlines, and the matter expanded like a magma, showing her what he was truly made of.

Every second of that night of celebration horrified her, she had the impression that, as Rino moved, as he expanded around himself, every margin collapsed and her own margins, too, became softer and more yielding. She struggled to maintain control, and succeeded: on the outside her anguish hardly showed.