Favorite fairy tale from Poland: The Glass Mountain. Boy kills lynx, uses its claws to scale a glass mountain. Then tricks giant eagle into flying him to apple tree that heals his wounds. He slays the eagle and the blood restores life to the dead princes below. #FairytaleTuesday
“They err who say ‘the world is turning pagan again’. Would that it were! The truth is we are falling into a much worse state.”
C.S. Lewis, The Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis
From zone by Mathias Enard translated by Charlotte Mandel
“I went back drunk to my not very cheerful hotel room, on the wall photos of Venice plunged me into depression.”
An almost unquantifiable book about the very dark shit that people get up to in and around war
Today we celebrate #Hungarian Poetry Day and remember the birthday of our great 20th century poet ATTILA JÓZSEF. Hungarian literature abounds with beautiful poems, though it might stay hidden in front of the foreign eyes.
Ilustración de El Rey Oso Blanco Valemon que es un cuento popular noruego recopilado por Peter Christen Asbjornsen.
🖼White Bear King Valemon (1857-1914)
Date 1912
🎨Theodor Kittelsen
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