Captain George K.H. Coussmaker, Captain and Lieutenant of the 1st Foot Guards. Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1782. Detail.
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Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there’s something inside us that’s so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won’t be able to stand looking at it. But it’s when we’re willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr. (via dealwithhimhemingway)
For Children’s Book Week, the best illustrations from 130 years of Brothers Grimm fairy tales.
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In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines, lived 12 little girls in two straight lines.
Reblogged purely to make Amanda smile.
Michael Hauge’s Six Stage Plot Structure. (Or: infographics I want to hug.)
Graphic by Eduardo L. Lozano
Ugh so pretty
Daniel Mytens, James Halmiton, 1st Duke of Hamilton
1629
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In teacup times.
Harrison Fisher, from American beauties, Indianapolis, 1909.
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