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For my daughters, the fields. For my sons, my daughters

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@freistory Not true.

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I would swallow the world out of spite if I could.

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@ck52045642 A local friend said when I visited that he wanted to show me the "dark underbelly" of Tokyo but it was just the black-containment zone in Shinjuku.

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Deep structure of Piero di Cosimo:

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@AntigoneJournal Categorically incorrect.

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@thothdaughter Wrong.

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I love recognition scenes between slaves.

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It's not enough. Flaubert sacrificed everything to the Idea except his hope of salvation; he spent his final days staring through windows at young families, muttering to himself how right they are, how right they are.

[Max Thrax @ThraxMaximilian]

Flaubert on living like a polar bear

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Nobody belongs except the duteously ugly shepherd and he is locking eyes with the single sheep he lost.

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Titian's good taste here is in showing total selfishness to be the method of recovering Antiquity.

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The choice to depict fashionable youths classicizing the pastoral through their presence, rather than as incompatible city-boys ripe for rural sadism, was a gesture as foreign to us now as placing the softest David at the mouth of Medici Palace.

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The city's final fruit, the educated silk-stockinged youth who abandons town for the country, bringing courtesans he can ignore once he's there. A parody of the Renaissance maxim "let things be in their rightful place," becomes a defining image of the era.

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@musi_lunghi LOL

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@saythewyrd No.

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@heimberg_a Incorrect.

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Man is so ashamed of the simplicity of his talents, he would spend the next century after the Enlightenment carving sculptures of himself cowering at the feet of his first victim, woman. After that he would jingle unpredictability as an excuse for not getting out of bed.

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Up until the Enlightenment, man built civilisations by consulting planets, the most predictable objects in the world, after man.

[Eutaktos @eutaktospol]

Awful. Utterly dreadful. Voluntary mummification. Life of a pendulum. The ultimate horror of the Enlightenment. Complete victory of reason and order over the beautiful terrifying unpredictability of the human spirit. Twenty-seven years of the exact same day. I could never.

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The first stone of the most beautiful Palazzo in Florence was laid at dawn, August 6th, 1489, at the moment when the predictable motions of the planets were predicted to be the most conducive to the display of power.

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@Supreme_Ace_ No, it doesn't.

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The only self-portrait I ever think about

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@sayingthankyous I'm afraid I'm always clever.