The center of every tragedy is the image of a human being who has already died but keeps talking, someone whose face is a mask." "The Gods Show Up," Michael Kinnucan
re last silly doodle kind of funny to do bc you look up kublai khan & there's portraits of him done during or just about contemporary to his lifetime meanwhile you look up marco polo & the earliest image of him is from like 150 years after he died.
In a nutshell: I pulled from the stacks at UVA’s Shannon Library a first edition 1894 copy of Letters of Emily Dickinson, published by Roberts Brothers of Boston, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd, and signed by the poet’s sister Lavinia.