* P R O V O C A T E U R *
"What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
- Carl Sagan, excerpt from the 11th epsidode of Cosmos ("The Persistence of Memory")
▪︎ S Y M P O S I U M ▪︎
santosha65
This incredible photo marks the end of Matador Torero Alvaro Munera’s career. He collapsed in remorse mid-fight when he realized he was having to prompt this otherwise gentle beast to fight. He went on to become an avid opponent of bullfights. Even grievously wounded by picadors, he did not attack this man.
Torrero Munera is quoted as saying of this moment: “And suddenly, I looked at the bull. He had this innocence that all animals have in their eyes, and he looked at me with this pleading. It was like a cry for justice, deep down inside of me. I describe it as being like a prayer - because if one confesses, it is hoped, that one is forgiven. I felt like the worst shit on earth.”
mushaka
I’ve reblogged this at least two other times but this is possibly one of my favorite photos ever.
Always reblog!
hardudes
▪︎ PEDRO AUGUSTO
Babe, wake up, it’s that fucking chocolate guy again
fishcustardandclintbarton
BABE!! NEW CHOCOLATE GUY CONTENT JUST DROPPED!
if Chocolate Guy had been alive and doing his thing in the mid 17th century the royal families of Europe would have started actual wars over who got to hire him
