The mask of apparent calm, of mundane tranquility, of the joy, at once small and bright, of not knowing when this thing I call skin will be ripped off, when this thing I call mouth will lose the flesh that surrounds it, when these things I call eyes will come upon the black silence of a knife.
- from 'Tender is the Flesh', by Agustina Bazterrica
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Laocoön and His Sons(1929)
by Joseph Hyrtl
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"But in the end she's as bitter as wormwood, sharp as a sword with two mouths."
- China Mieville, 'Embassytown'
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Thank you @cultfollowlng and everyone who got me to 1000 reblogs!
You are excellent.
‘The Kiss’ (2018)
Oil on board
By Beau White
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He is at home with his solitude as the note reverberating inside a bell.
Peter Heller, 'The Dog Stars'
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"Typical crystals"
Chemistry of common things. c.1914.
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screaming crying throwing up
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Love and Pain (1895)
by Edvard Munch
Also known as Vampire
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Still, there is this terrible desire to be loved.
Still, there is this horror at being left behind.
Michael Cunningham, The Hours(1998)
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Proper Care of the Hair and Scalp
By Amant Henry Ohmann-Dumesnil
(Saint Louis: University Medical Press, 1917)
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Broke my ankle walking down a staircase while talking about airfryers peak human experience
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What if I got weirder
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Tomb of a Suicide
By Vasily Alexandrovich Kotarbinsky (1900)
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You do not have to be good.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver
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Total Solar Eclipse (1860)
by Warren de la Rue
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Richard Siken, from "Saying Your Names", Crush
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