C'mon, Vogue.

"In Between"
Guy Bourdin

perfection on a large scale is easily forgettable, imperfection up close is engagingly memorable.

the koto is an entrancing instrument to watch played live. extra special bonus serene sensuousness with flute accompaniment.

the fourth night of chanukah is not as pleasant as it could be due to the sold out nature of rick ro$$ tickets for tonight......... "if i curled into the fetal position i think id fit in his stomach" - jake

"Hatsuhana prays"
Kuniyoshi

Fervent lovers and austere scholars

Both love, in their mature season,
The powerful gentle cats, pride of the house,
Which like them are sensitive to the cold and sedentary.

Friends of science and ecstasy,
They search for silence and the horror of darkness;
Erebus would have taken them for his funeral steeds,
If they could bend their pride to slavery.

While dreaming they take the noble attitudes
Of great Sphinxes stretched out in the heart of the desert,
Which seem to sleep in an endless revery;

Their fecund loins are full of magic sparks,
And specks of gold, like fine sand,
Add vague stars to their mystical eyeballs.

"CATS"
Charles Baudelaire

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"Do you come from deep heaven or do you come from hell,
O Beauty? Your eyes, infernal and divine,
O Beauty! huge, terrifying, artless monster!
What difference, if you make -
The universe less hideous and time less heavy?"