Là-Bas

Jan. 12

biscodeja-vu:

Cherub by Ernst Fuchs

(via juniororangeblossoms)

(Quelle: officeofthedead)

Dez. 31

“Death is revealed in relation to the discontinuous world of labour. For creatures whose individuality is heightened by work, death is the primal disaster; it underlines the inanity of the separate individual.” Georges Bataille, “Eroticism” (via lovevoltaireusapart)

(via doom-ebooks-deactivated20130123)

The Flowers of Evil

(Quelle: howtotalktogirlsdialectically, via sex-death-rebirth)

officeofthedead:

Book of Hours, Use of Sarum. mid to late 15th century.

Started a new tumblr because (a) I have become slightly burned out with this one, am bad at maintaining contact with people, and am overwhelmed by dashboard junk; (b) need a place to collate my interest in medieval death rituals in their liturgical, visual, and literary manifestations; and (c) “office of the dead” hasn’t been taken as a blog title/URL? with all the 17-year-old goths on here? I’ll take it.

(Quelle: torpekonyvek)

jothelibrarian:

Pretty medieval manuscript of the day shows the Office of the Dead - appropriate because today is All Souls Day. It is from a stunning early sixteenth century book of hours in the collection of the Getty Museum.

All Souls Day falls on the 2nd of November and is the day that medieval Catholics prayed and did penance to remember the souls of the dead. It is still an important day in the Catholic and Anglican churches.

Image source: Book of hours by the master of James IV of Scotland. Image declared as public domain on Wikimedia Commons because its copyright has expired.