The Ganges from Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Located at the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy.
Tiresias embraces the topography of Rome and the structures of rhetoric as reflected in the extraordinary lives of an erudite couple who share a love for classic literature, art, music, film and the words that continue to bind them even when the malleability of gender is confronted by the rigidity of fate.
The historical sense involves a perception,
not only of the pastness of the past,
but of its presence. | |
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) The Sacred Wood 1921 |
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The Tree of Crows by Caspar David Friedrich.
Located at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, France.
Upon learning of the death of his only child, an American scholar of medieval European literature imposes upon himself an exile equal to that of his condemned hero Dante Alighieri and wanders the French countryside in search of the meaning of life.
| You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company. | |
Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) |
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