Antonio Canova, The Repentant Mary Magdalene, 1809

Santiago Caruso, Wunderkammern

Lichtenstein: A Retrospective

Nudes with Beach Ball, 1994

Rouen Cathedral Set V, 1969

Giuseppe Sammartino, The Veiled Christ, 1753

Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; 
I lift my lids and all is born again. 
(I think I made you up inside my head.) 

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, 
And arbitrary blackness gallops in: 
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. 

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed 
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. 
(I think I made you up inside my head.) 

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade: 
Exit seraphim and Satan's men: 
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. 

I fancied you'd return the way you said, 
But I grow old and I forget your name. 
(I think I made you up inside my head.) 

I should have loved a thunderbird instead; 
At least when spring comes they roar back again. 
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. 
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

Chvrches, Recover

Lou Reed, Caroline Says II

Lift to Experience , These Are The Days

Marcin Ryczek, A Man Feeding Swans in the Snow, 2013

Salvador Dalí, Mona Bismarck, 1943

To my shame I hadn't read any Beckett before last night when I dipped into a book of his early novellas. Beckett often gets mentioned in the same breath as Joyce so I was a bit worried but my concern was completely unfounded. The stories I read reminded me more of Knut Hamsun, whom I greatly admire. I will read more.

Gustave Courbet, The Desperate Man (self-portrait), 1845

Epicurus' Tetrapharmakos

Recipe for leading the happiest possible life from ~300 BC.

Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get, and
What is terrible is easy to endure

"Epicurus believed that the greatest good was to seek modest pleasures in order to attain a state of tranquility and freedom from fear (ataraxia) as well as absence of bodily pain (aponia) through knowledge of the workings of the world and the limits of our desires. The combination of these two states is supposed to constitute happiness in its highest form."

Paul Laffoley, The THANATON III, Extraterrestrial Communication Portal, 1989

The 2nd movement (starts just after the 5 minute mark) always gives me goosebumps.