Golden Serpent

vintageeveryday:
“Two actresses at Delphi Festival adorn costumes of classical Greece, December 1930.
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uconstruction:
“Lisette Model • Rome
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signorformica:
“ “What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, three legs in the evening, and no legs at night?”
The Sphinx of Naxos, a cyclopean 2.22 meter tall marble statue with the head of a woman, the chest and wings of a...

In the prisonhouse of the body what can we do, other than provoke glimpses of something beginning beyond the walls?

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Georges Bataille (via crematedadolescent)

winged-serpent:
“ Frames from The Legend of the Mermaids (1911)
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westernspirits:
“ Julie Newmar in MacKenna’s Gold (1969)
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