mary oliver, ‘from this river, when i was a child, i used to drink’
[ID: “‘What, precisely, will you grieve for?’ For the river. For myself, my lost joyfulness. For the children who will not know what a river can be—a friend, a companion, a hint of heaven.” end ID]
"She was like that, she threw things off balance just to see if she could put them back in some other way." - Elena Ferrante
largely inspired by this post by my beloved @elenagrec and this discussion i've had with @prismelit
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)
everyone from town says that you're so cool
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (Danish, 1783-1853)
Udsigt gennem tre buer i Colosseums tredje stokværk
Uncredited Photographer Young Member of the French Anti-fascist Resistance 1944
them not including Lilas studying of Naples and her whole arc with that city feels like a betrayal to her
Miniature English Bedchamber of the Jacobean or Stuart Era, 1603-1688
Narcissa Niblack Thorne & Unknown Artisans
c.1937
Art Institute of Chicago (Reference Number: 1941.1187)
- Robert Garland, Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks