Self Portrait or The Desperate Man, by Gustave Courbet

behold the sublime

Art has nothing to do with the people. Hand over the beautiful to universal suffrage and what becomes of the beautiful? The people rise to art only when art descends to the people.

Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

adoration

Pullman describes our heroine [Lyra] poring over the alethiometer “like a lover with a picture of the beloved.”

Question Authority

Frank Lentini, the Human Tripod

Mais sobre este homem fenomenal aqui.

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I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the human mnid aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a word are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.