
The Monday Poem – 10 november xxxv by Pablo Picasso
This week’s poem is Picasso’s 10 november xxxv. I hope you enjoy it! Continue reading The Monday Poem – 10 november xxxv by Pablo Picasso
This week’s poem is Picasso’s 10 november xxxv. I hope you enjoy it! Continue reading The Monday Poem – 10 november xxxv by Pablo Picasso
We tracked snow and mud over a spotless stone floor. Before an open fire stood Madame and the three children—a girl of eight years, a boy of five, a boy of three. They stared with round frightened eyes at les soldats Americans, the first they had ever seen. We were too tired to stare back. We at once climbed to the chill attic, our billet, our lodging for the night. First we lifted the packs from one another’s aching shoulders: then, without spreading our blankets, we lay down on the bare boards. Continue reading Holy Ireland
If you had shown me the painting above before I knew about this artist, I definitely would have thought it was a Leonora Carrington piece. Continue reading The Fantastic Bridget Bate Tichenor
Welcome to day 2 of 5 Days of Lovecraft! Continue reading 5 Days of Lovecraft – 2: The Alchemist
High up, crowning the grassy summit of a swelling mound whose sides are wooded near the base with the gnarled trees of the primeval forest, stands the old chateau of my ancestors. For centuries its lofty battlements have frowned down upon the wild and rugged countryside about, serving as a home and stronghold for the proud house whose honoured line is older even than the moss-grown castle walls. These ancient turrets, stained by the storms of generations and crumbling under the slow yet mighty pressure of time, formed in the ages of feudalism one of the most dreaded and formidable fortresses in all France. From its machicolated parapets and mounted battlements Barons, Counts, and even Kings had been defied, yet never had its spacious halls resounded to the footsteps of the invader. Continue reading The Alchemist By H. P. Lovecraft
I’m in a Lovecraft mood, currently re-reading the stunning The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, so here’s one of his letters to Clark Ashton Smith. Continue reading A Letter to Clark Ashton Smith from H. P. Lovecraft
Day 5 is Latvian-American artist Philippe Halsman, responsible for that photo of Einstein and producing work for Vogue and Life magazines. Dabbling in photography from the age of fifteen, Halsman went on to become one of the world’s most recognised photographers, working with subjects such as Marilyn Monroe and Richard Nixon. Continue reading 5 Days of Photography. 5: Philippe Halsman (1906-1979)
It’s part of a collection of short stories, so plenty more to read there too! Continue reading The Mezzotint by M.R. James
Start from Chapter One. Chapter Three. It may well be imagined how powerfully I was affected by the annals of the Harrises. In this continuous record there seemed to me to brood a persistent evil beyond anything in Nature as I … Continue reading The Shunned House – H.P. Lovecraft 3/5