- wanderer above the sea of fog (1818) by caspar david friedrich
- the monk by the sea (1808-10) by caspar david friedrich
- the swing (1767) by jean honore fragonard
- snow storm - steam-boat off a harbour's mouth (1842) by j.m.w. turner
- staffa, fingal's cave (1831-2) by j.m.w. turner
- shore scene with waves and breakwater (1835) by j.m.w. turner
- chaos (the creation) (1841) by ivan aivazovsky
- niagara falls, from the american side (1867) by frederic edwin church
- atlantic storm (1876) by john singer sargent
- fog and mist (1926) by leon dabo
- silver light hudson river (1911) by leon dabo
- the hay wain (1821) by john constable
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nov 15 2014 +
- septimus "no more you can, time must needs run backward, and since it will not, we must stir our way onward mixing as we go, disorder out of disorder into disorder until pink is complete, unchanging and unchangeable, and we are done with it for ever."
- thomasina "each week i plot your equations dot for dot, xs against ys in all manner of algebraical relation, and every week they draw themselves as commonplace geometry, as if the world of forms were nothing but arcs and angles. god's truth, septimus, if there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose? do we believe nature is written in numbers?"
- septimus "we shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. the procession is very lon...
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- her kind by anne sexton x
- from my emily dickinson by susan howe x
- get rid of the X by marilyn chin
nov 14 2014 ∞
nov 14 2014 +
- and yet by mitch albom
- what broke my father's heart by katy butler
- under the influence by scott russell sanders
nov 14 2014 ∞
nov 14 2014 +
- tongari, 25 lives "i'll never burn as brilliantly as you do. it's only fair that i should be the one to chase you across ten, twenty-five, a hundred lifetimes until i find the one where you'll return to me."
- marquez, chronicle of a death foretold "she only took the time necessary to say the name. she looked for it in the shadows, she found it at first sight among the many, many easily confused names from this world and the other, and she nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written. 'santiago nasar,' she said."
- pullman, amber spyglass "i will love you forever; whatever happens. until i die and after i die, and when i find my way out of the land of the dead, i'll drift about forever, all my atoms, until i find you again."
- "and i'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version o...
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- tsukiko "i have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents."
- marco, to celia "i have tried to let you go and i cannot. i cannot stop thinking of you. i cannot stop dreaming about you."
- marco, to celia "you leave me longing for you again and again when i would give anything for you to stay, and it is killing me."
- marco "come away with me. anywhere. away from the circus, away from alexander and your father." celia "we can't."
- "as he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. the acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. the entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron."
- marco "i don't want to win . i want you . truly, celia, do you not understand that?"
- marco "how can you think that i don't love you? celia, you are everything to me. i don't know who is trying to convince you othe...
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