Der Tod des Empedokles (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, 1987)
“Apricot Sprites” found in the cross sections of a fruit tree by Daniel
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Saint Joan of Arc, 1909, by Paul de La Boulaye.
Italian specimen agate and quartz box, circa 1800.
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Gold hedgehog on a box pendant (Egypt, maybe 4th century –30 B.C.)
Image and text information courtesy The Met.
“Come to the candle-light. I’m not afraid to look upon the dead. When they return they have a right to hospitality within our gaze, the same as other things. Come; we’ll remain a little while in silence.”—
Rainer Maria Rilke, excerpt of “Requiem: For a Friend [Für Eine Freundin]”, in Possibility of Being, trans. by J. B. Leishman
Source—Komm her ins Kerzenlicht. Ich bin nicht bang,
die Toten anzuschauen. Wenn sie kommen,
so haben sie ein Recht, in unserm Blick
sich aufzuhalten, wie die andern Dinge.
Komm her; wir wollen eine Weile still sein.


