Careers for 2019: An Update
- Maenad
- Philosopher who lives in a barrel
- Medieval monk responsible for tending to the gardens and brewing beer
- Swashbuckling Elizabethan adventurer
- Reckless young fop on his Grand Tour of Europe
- Respectable bachelor with 10,000 pounds a year
- Humble tutor/governess who falls for the brooding and troubled lord of the manor
- Brooding and troubled lord of the manor
- Hedonistic young aesthete with an opium addiction
- War poet
- George from Blackadder
Detail of the Venus de Milo, an ancient Greek statue of the goddess Aphrodite, dated to 130-100 BCE and found on the island of Milos. The statue is attributed to Alexandros of Antioch, a Hellenistic sculptor who lived between the 2nd and 1st centuries BCE. Currently located in the Louvre. Full photo taken by Ilya Shurygin in 2014. Source: AncientRome.ru.
Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory
We only just found this brilliantly ridiculous promo photo for Jude Law as Bosie Douglas in Wilde (1997) - and now we’re regretting our much tamer photoshoot for Words from Wilde…
“In thousands of agonies— I exist.”— The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
i think the idiot has some of the most interesting characters from dostoevsky’s novels
the fear that the goldfinch will be bad because it is so hard to capture the essence of such a powerful and stimulating novel vs the knowledge that it will definitely be bad because ansel elgort is playing theo
The fall of Icarus (detail) from the workshop of Bernard Picart, 1731.
The Moon sets behind the temple of Poseidon at Sounio
THEY KISSED!!!!
“I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.”— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed (via bookmania)
