Scars can be literal or metaphorical, physical or psychical. The scar is the memory of the wound, imprinted on the warp and weft of the fles...

Paris-Cauchemar (1870-1871) À Mr. Étienne R. Veron de Braïla Un ciel de gouffre, et des images très opaques, Nuit d'horreur, - mais, par...

Mais bientôt les bizarreries s’accusèrent davantage, et il devenait parfois difficile de les excuser, car elles sortaient du domaine de la...

God sealed us, in imprinting his Image in our soules, and in the powers thereof, at our creation; and so, every man hath this seale, and he ...

"Be virtuous, don't be greedy, Divine justice will not spare you." Dîmbovița valley, Argeș Bananas

In the deep places of the earth, in the utmost depths of the sea, in the alveoli of the lungs, in the ventricles of the heart, in the caviti...

Melancholia Flatuosa multiplicem ob causam difficilis curationis est. Nam praeter vehementem venarum meseraicarum a crassa crudaque materia,...

Ebraeis sternutare est Atasch ; unde Thalmudistarum verbale Ittonsch , sternutationem notat. Iidem apud Buxtorfium in Lex. Thalmudico disti...

1:1 at the Romanian Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, 2010. Installation created by Romina Grillo, Ciprian Rășoiu, Liviu Vasiu, Mate...

Max Blecher was born on 8 September 1909 in Botoșani, a provincial town in northern Moldavia. Up until the Second World War, Botoșani was ...

That God should let my soul fall out of his hand, into a bottomless pit, and roll an unremovable stone upon it, and leave it to that which...

Les Grecs dont parle Juvénal mettaient au service de leur ambition une merveilleuse souplesse de caractère, leur devise était: Tout à tous, ...

Victor Serge said, "I followed his argument With the blank uneasiness which one might feel In the presence of a logical lunatic." ...

As Nothing is not Something, so every thing which is not Something, is Nothing; and wherever Something is not, Nothing is (...) For instanc...

To our grandparents, a ‘house’, a ‘well’, a familiar steeple, even their own clothes, their cloak, still meant infinitely more, were still ...

A patient noticed the waiter in the coffee-house; he skipped past him so quickly and uncannily. He noticed odd behaviour in an acquaintanc...

...Darum geht im Liede und der lyrischen Stimmung das Wollen (das persönliche Interesse des Zwecks) und das reine Anschauen der sich darbi...

... and giving to one of his old acquaintances his wallet, books, and opistographs, away went he out of town towards a little hill or promon...

The Seductiveness of the Interval catalogue is available from the Renaissance Society Bookstore, at the University of Chicago

Caelius Calcagninus (1479-1541) Ast ego magnanimum culicem quo carmine laudem? Certe huius rara est gloria, rarus honor. Cetera quaec...

Politian (Angelo de'Ambrosini da Monte Pulciano) (1454-1494) O mihi quanta datis fallacia gaudia, somni! Invideo, Endymion, Latmia...

Georgio de Chirico, Mélancolie (1912) Qua de caussa Melancholicorum risus rarior ille quidem, sed immoderatus esse solet? Certum est:...

Cur nullus possit seipse titillare? Titillatio risus species esse videtur, etsi nesciam maximis quibusdam Philosophis placere verum risu...

Aeschylus in Sicilia moenibus urbis, in qua morabatur, egressus, aprico in loco resedit: super quem aquila testudinem ferens, elusa splendor...

The lychgate of a field showed Father Conmee breadths of cabbages, curtseying to him with ample underleaves. The sky showed him a flock of ...