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From the brilliant essay ‘The dark brain of Piranesi’. The passage is in the first comment due to lack of space here.
— Jan 30, 2026 11:57AM
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Yourcenar on behalf of Tommai dei Cavalieri, Michelangelo’s friend and possibly lover:
‘When men contemplate my picture, they will not ask who I was or what I did: they will praise me for having existed.”
I often look at a portrait in a gallery thinking exactly this though I’ve never articulated it to myself so well.
— Jan 30, 2026 02:07PM
‘When men contemplate my picture, they will not ask who I was or what I did: they will praise me for having existed.”
I often look at a portrait in a gallery thinking exactly this though I’ve never articulated it to myself so well.
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‘The true horror of the Prisons is less in their few mysterious scenes of torture than in the indifference of these human ants roaming through enormous spaces, whose various groups seem almost never to communicate among themselves or even to take note of their respective presences, and still less to realize that in some dim corner a prisoner is being tortured. And perhaps the most singular feature of all this disturbing little multitude is everyone's immunity to vertigo. Sure-footed, at ease in these altitudes of delirium, such gnats do not seem to notice they are buzzing on the brink of the abyss.’
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