AliceInTheSky
@theotheralice
Busy keeping head above water. Favourite means: books (warning: includes lots of poetry)/ music (mainly classical)/ arts/ yes, that annoying/ films / stuff
Feeling guilty for force feeding a haiku down entomologists' throats with flimsy excuses, so here it is, the genuine article: Actias luna, moon- moth, the beautiful. #MothWeek
Yes! That whole Pope series is great. Also among my favourites: the series of caged beings, like the one below
Art question 🎨 What painting, photograph, sculpture, or piece of visual art has stayed with you long after you first saw it? Not necessarily your favorite. The one that lingered. Francis Bacon, Self Portrait, 1969, and lots of the other Bacons seen in the 90s at the Fondation Maeght
"Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire." 📘 William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair #BookWormSat #BOTD #society
"What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!" 📘 William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair ⬇️ Thackeray, Self Caricature #BookWormSat #BOTD #society
"Every human institution (justice included) will stretch a little, if you only pull it the right way" 📘Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone ⬇️ Collins, Vanity Fair Frontispiece, 1872 #BookWormSat #society
'I wanted love to grow back, like grass when it's mown down.' 📘Herta Müller, The Land of Green Plums 🎨 Albrecht Dürer, Das Große Rasenstück (Great Piece of Turf) #BookWormSat #nativeplants
'Occasionally a yellow leaf fell from the tree. Then one or the other of us would turn up his eyes as though to see the leaf fall once again.' 📘Herta Müller, The Land of Green Plums 🎨 Georgia O'Keefe, 2 Yellow Leaves #BookWormSat #nativeplants
'Look at the Sunflower, he said, there was a dead grey shadow against the sky, big as a man, sitting dry on top of a pile of ancient sawdust- - I rushed up enchanted - it was my first sunflower, memories of Blake - ✍️ A. Ginsberg, Sunflower Sutra 🎨 A. Kiefer #BookWormSat #poetry #nativeplants
'... we baled the darkness empty, we found the word that ascended summer: flower. Flower - a blind man's word. ... Heart wall upon heart wall adds petals to it. ' ✍️ Paul Celan, Flower 🎨 Anselm Kiefer, Let a Thousand Flowers... (detail) #BookWormSat #poetry #nativeplants
Carpenter bee: Seen George lately? Ant: Buzz off. I'm working. 📸 my own (and rather proud of it) (yes, my standards are low)
"...for it might end, you know," said Alice, "in my going out like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?" 📕 Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 🎬 Jonathan Miller, Alice in Wonderland, 1966 #BookWormSat #Alice'sDay
"...but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then." 📕 Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 🖼️ Charles Blackman, Alice series #BookWormSat #Alice'sDay
"- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then." 📕 Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland AIW illustration by Tove Jansson #BookWormSat #Alice'sDay
"... depends on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where -" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. 📕 Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by John Tenniel Edition 1891 #BookWormSat #Alice'sDay
"Contrariwise, " continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." 📕 Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, illustrated by John Tenniel #BookWormSat #Alice'sDay
More Oliver Wasow, from his series Rogues. Brilliant at capturing the essence.
👀So that's IRON? I thought it was rays of light. Well that does explain the worried expressions on those faces beneath it. Somebody'd better tell Mary and the other clueless guy though.
Luigi Pirandello, BOTD in 1865, in a borough called Caos (...!), southern Sicily. "Imparerai a tue spese che nel lungo tragitto della vita incontrerai tante maschere e pochi volti." (At your own expense, you'll learn that during a long life you'll meet lots of masks and few faces.)
Gargantuan clouds during dog days Take the shape of a demon Then change into a Buddha ✍️ Kobayashi Issa ⬇️ detail from an inkwash hanging scroll attributed to Tenshō Shūbun #BookWormSat #haiku #summer
coolness the sound of the bell leaving the bell ✍️ Yosa Buson #BookWormSat #haiku #summer
calm and serene the sound of the cicada penetrates the rick ✍️ Matsuo Bashō #BookWormSat #haiku #summer
The windchime silent But the clock ticking Ah, the heat! ✍️ Yokoi Yakū #BookWormSat #haiku #summer