GPOYW: 153/73 after 1mg of Xanax. A long and trying day, yes. But I like the odd recursiveness of the image.
(ghoulnextdoor says) Intriguing! I don’t believe I have heard of this film before; this is what IMDB says:
“Leonora, a prostitute, mourns the death by drowning years earlier of her daughter. She encounters a strange waif-like girl, Cenci, who bears a strong resemblance to her lost child. Cenci is herself struck by the great resemblance of Leonora to her own mother, whose death the mentally unstable Cenci has been unable to accept or even acknowledge. The two women quickly develop a symbiotic relationship, moving in and out of the illusion that each is the lost loved one of the other. The complicating factor is the arrival of Albert, Cenci’s stepfather, whose incestuous attachment to her may well be the cause of her mind’s unbalance. With Albert’s arrival, no one in the strange trio is safe. “reblogged from: mignonette:
Mia Farrow in ‘Secret Ceremony’ 1968
Odd. I haven’t heard of this, either, but I am intrigued.
1stday ofDecemberin the year2009
Grant Morrison, you are insane, and I love you.
Grant is my hero. Well, one of them, anyway.
Ivan Tsarevich riding the Gray Wolf by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1889.
Ivan Tsarevich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRemember the post from yesterday? I cannot claim credit for it, so I want to point out it was reblogged from verhextliebe and from dreamboatcourtney. I cannot stand not knowing the sources of things, it drives me nuts. I know some people don’t care, they just like to look at beautiful things and there is nothing wrong with that. But I like to be able give a little background, or history with regard to the thing in question! I almost want to go back to the original poster of it, a flickr account and say THIS IS WHO THIS IS, but maybe they don’t even want to know so I will keep my mouth shut. I like to know where things come from, don’t you?
ETA: The owner of the flickr account kindly contacted me, unsolicited, to let me know that she does indeed know the source & background of the card, etc - it’s a good thing I didn’t send her a note or else I would have felt like a jerk!Ivan Tsarevich (Russian: Ива́н Царе́вич or Иван-царевич, literally John the Prince) is one of the main heroes of Russian folklore, usually a protagonist, often engaged in a struggle with Koschei. Along with Ivan the Fool, Ivan Tsarevich is a placeholder name rather than a certain character.
He is often, but not always, the youngest son of three. In the tale “The Three Kingdoms”, he is a son of Nastasya the Golden Braid. Different legends describe Ivan as having various wives, including Yelena the Beautiful, Vasilisa the Wise and Marya Morevna.(I get the feeling that these cards might be a little confusing; my source originally told me it said: “This is a picture of the Russian artist Vasily Vasnetsov. The picture to the Russian folk tale “Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf. Here Ivan Tsarevich on the gray wolf and his fiancee, Helen.”)
Ah, so it was YOU I was trying to help!
30thday ofNovemberin the year2009
Someone posted a link to this picture with a request for a translation of the writing. I got the translation, but stupidly forgot to note who posted the picture. So on the off-chance it is someone who follows me on Tumblr, here you go, courtesy of one of my Russian agents.
“It is a classical fairytale story painting by the russian artist Vasnecov, and it says ” The czar Ivan on grey wolf with his princess”. Its exposing in Moscow Tretyakov gallery I believe.”
I hope this gets to you, Questioner.
(via the air in the branches)
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