Alphonsine de Challie. Young lady with a pink veil.
“She lost her appetite, all she had was the great hunger. It seemed to her that she’d committed a crime and she’d eaten a fried angel, its wings snapping between her teeth.”— Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector
alana champion by chuck grant for galore 2016
Death of Ophelia - Jean-Baptiste Bertrand 1872
“The world is outside me, I am outside me.”— Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector
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My last brain cell is heart shaped
The End of a Dream - Giuseppe Pennasilico , c.1908
Italian, 1861-1940
Oil on canvas, 99.5 x 145.4 cm
Ancient Greek amethyst intaglio of Achilles playing the cithara, dated to 75-50 BCE. Currently located in the Getty Museum.
“something is eating away at me with splendid teeth”— Gwendolyn MacEwen, from “Memoirs of a Mad Cook,” The Armies of the Moon (Macmillan, 1972)
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“(..) psychologists say that shame ruins your capacity for reverie by making cracks in the mind where it is dangerous for thought to wander.”— Anne Carson, Float; “Shame stack”
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