Click on the image to see the whole...Pieter Brueghel De Val van Icarus (painted around 1558)
Here's a link to an interesting commentary on the painting that expands our discussion yesterday.
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Varsity Jacket by Megan L
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Denise Levertov
"two by two in the arK of/the ache of it"
Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones)
"there was no one there..."
Adze
Chuck. Chuck. Chuck.
John Wieners
Christmas star, christmas tree, mistletoe, and holly/(but mother under everything in festival paralysis).
Jeff Mangum (with his band Neutral Milk Hotel; Jeff is the one holding the angel)
The only girl I ever loved was born with roses in her eyes
William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
"Returning, I had to cross before the looking-glass; my fascinated glance involuntarily explored the depth it revealed.... and the strange little figure there gazing at me...had the effect of a real spirit: I though it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp..."
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable..."
Translations by Brian Friel
"I set out for somewhere but I couldn't remember where. So I came back here."
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
"I remember watching myself brush my hair and how my eyes looked back at me. The girl I saw was myself yet not quite myself.... What am I doing in this place and who am I?"
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
"Who knows, but that on the lower frequencies I speak for you?"
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Oh dear Britta! I am eternally blessed by the radiant light you cast upon my life. Will you make me the happiest person on our lovely green planet and marry me, until climate change does us part?
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