Coppo di Marcovaldo (1225-1276), Detail of the Hell Scene – Battistero di San Giovanni (Florence) While the red-stained mouths of machine guns ring across the infinite expanse of day; while red or green, before their posturing King, the massed battalions break and melt away; and while a monstrous frenzy runs a course that makes of …
Frida Kahlo, Moses, 1945 Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin. Teoria della civiltà autentica. Non è nel gas, o nel vapore, oppure nei tavolini medianici: è nella diminuzione delle tracce del peccato …
Charles Baudelaire – Teoria della civiltà autentica / Theory of the true civilization Read More »
Bernardino Parentino (1437-1531), The Temptation of St. Anthony Folly, error, sin, avarice occupy our minds and labor our bodies, and we feed our pleasant remorse as beggars nourish their vermin.Our sins are obstinate, our repentance is faint; we exact a high price for our confessions, and we gaily return to the miry path, believing that base tears wash away all our …
Giovanni da Modena, The Hell (detail), 1412 c. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.Surely some …
William Butler Yeats – La seconda venuta / The Second Coming Read More »
Leonora Carrington, Figure in water, 1960 The rivers of hell are mine, they aren’t yours they’re mine, flowing hot and dirty and endless they’re mine, all mine, special, for me, nobody else, they’re mine rushing me along, night and day, week after week, month after month, year after year, they’re mine, you hear me? Sono …
Joos van Craesbeeck, Temptation of St. Anthony, 1650 Shot in the eyeshot in the brainshot in the ass shot like a flower in the danceamazing how death wins hands downamazing how much credence is given to idiot forms of lifeamazing how laughter has been drowned outamazing how viciousness is such a constantI must soon declare …
Charles Bukowski – Una Sfida alla Tenebre / A Challenge to the Dark Read More »
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