The Samuri

"Mad Girl's Love Song"

"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.)"
Sylvia Plath

"A Woman Killing Three Sleeping Men"

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ca. 1520s

Jan Gossart (Netherlandish, ca. 1478–1532ca.
Pen and brush and black ink, white gouache, on bluish gray prepared paper
Collection Frits Lugt, Paris
This roundel is one of four on view in the exhibition whose designs share size, technique, and style, and which may belong to a series. It seems to illustrate the "power of women," a popular subject in medieval and sixteenth-century Northern art, which warned of the evil of members of the fair sex. Only the subject of one of the other roundels has been identified: the Mycenaean queen Clytemnestra, seated in bed, ordering her lover, Aegisthus, to kill her husband, Agamemnon. Gossart's literary source was likely the Latin collection of stories about famous women De mulieribus claris, by the fourteenth-century Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio. There are no known glass roundels after the designs, so it is possible that they were made and appreciated as autonomous works of art.

Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance @ the Met

The Story of Dr. Mabuse

A scene from The Testament of Dr. Mabuse meant as an example of a supernatural scene that the director later regretted including in the film.
Source: © 1933 Nero Film Classics.
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This and that

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When We First Met

Photographer: Patrick Demarchelier
Great Fashion and Photographs from not surprisingly German Vogue 2009