memento mori
@tenposike
just a little scrapbook where i reblog posts on the topic of death and posts that celebrate life and history. no original content. content warning for death, possibly unreality and occaisonally outdated language
“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
— Virginia Woolf
Someone today will read Shakespeare’s hamlet and say omg he’s just like me fr. Another person will read moby dick and proclaim Ishmael as an adhd king.
A person grieving for their recently deceased lover reads the iliad and they watch as Achilles rages and rages and god how righteous anger fueld by love is so devastating that it’s ramifications still affect the world several thousand years later.
We might one day settle down and read the epic of gilgamesh and watch as a king has to accept the death of the person he loved the most. One of the very first stories ever written and it was about coping with death, and how to grieve.
We don’t read classics because they’re old, we read them because they remind us that we are never alone. That a character created over 500 years ago struggled with the exact same problems we all still have today. That even a king from centuries past had to deal with death just like me. That’s what makes stories so powerful–they prove to us that we are never truly alone in what we are feeling.
Philippe Caza
leopardheart-deactivated2023022
it’s amazing the entire dashboard is just old things. shakespeare. arthuriana. gargantua. the epic of gilgamesh. the brothers karamazov. beowulf. wuthering heights. medieval mystics. dracula novel discourse. lawrence of arabia 1962. al pacino. die girlies auf tumblr are thriving and having a ball going about as if media stopped happening post 2010
leopardheart-deactivated2023022
preach!
death as neither a kindly figure nor a grim spectre but as a funny little skeleton running around brandishing his scythe and going "i'm gonna getcha! i'm gonna getcha!" in a gremlin voice
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Illustration for “The Bruce Partington Plans,” 1908
Frederic Dorr Steele (1873-1944)
1908
Graphite Sketch
This graphite sketch of Dr. Watson about to head out on an adventure with Holmes appeared in Collier’s Magazine v.42, no.12, Dec. 12, 1908. He is seen following Holmes’s orders to “Bring with you a jimmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver.” The inscription reads, “It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen.” (x)
