May 26, 2012
betide \bih-TAHYD\ , verb:
1. To happen to; come to; befall.
2. To happen; come to pass.
“Ill luck betide thee, poor damsel,” said Sancho, “ill luck betide thee!”
– Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
“The girls’ skirts are measured each week with a dressmaker’s rule,” she would say, “to see that they conform to the length prescribed. Woe betide any girl whose skirt does not.”
– Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love
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May 23, 2012
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May 20, 2012
Eclipse of the Sun
William Langenheim (American, born Germany, 1807–1874)
Artist: Frederick Langenheim (American, born Germany, 1809–1879)
via The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Eclipse of the Sun.
May 14, 2012
Quatrefoil klover pattern
May 12, 2012
Heath Ceramics @sausalito.
May 10, 2012
May 9, 2012
Maurice Sendak based Really Rosie on several of his books and asked Carole King to do the music and the voice of Rosie. Really Rosie came out in 1975, via Hot Slut Of The Day! | Dlisted.
May 9, 2012
cicatrix \SIK-uh-triks\ , noun:
1. New tissue that forms over a wound.
2. Botany. A scar left by a fallen leaf, seed, etc.
A new relationship can develop. But the cicatrix of the old one remains. And nothing grows on a cicatrix. Nothing grows through it.
– Elizabeth George, Playing for the Ashes
He discriminates also very properly between the cicatrix, which is produced by the healing of wounds which have penetrated the cutis, and those in which the surface only is affected.
– James Moore, “Differtation on Healing of Wounds,” The Analytical Review, Volume 5
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May 7, 2012
Elsa Schiaparelli “Apollo of Versailles” Winter 1938–39
In celebration of the Met’s Spring 2012 Costume Institute exhibition, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, and for the first time in the event’s history, red carpet arrivals at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s renowned Costume Institute Benefit will be live streamed Monday, May 7, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. EST
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Gala Red Carpet Live .
May 3, 2012
April 27, 2012
klover tumblr
