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WITCHDARKLING.

@edgarallanhoet

WRITER. VICTORIAN. PRISCILLA PRESLEY. WITCHERY. BOLEYN FANATIC.
Welcome to Hell, I’ve been waiting for you.
“My darling rose, put on your milk-white gown,”

Sappho, tr. by Jim Powell, from “The Poetry of Sappho,” published c. 2001

“Grace and careless abandon were combined in everything she did,”

Theodor Fontane, tr. by Hugh Rorrison and Helen Chambers, from “Effi Briest,

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melancholically beautiful things:

  • empty perfume bottles
  • abandoned castles
  • pressed flowers
  • old books with dust all over them
  • walking all alone in a museum hall
  • languages that humanity no longer uses
  • stars, the moon, the entire universe and its secrets