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Elly Higginbottom
@EllyHB
Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.
Apr 21, 2020 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Help— it’s 3:30am and I’m buying so many books and my last haul hasn’t even arrived yet and there’s no one here to stop me Excuse me.

There is a Prime Reading that lets you (e-)read books instantly and for free?! I am not an electronic reader but how did I not know this. Limited selection but I already found (it already suggested) Mary Oliver & Joan Didion so I’ll survive the night. Thanks Amazon!
Apr 17, 2020 • 14 tweets • 13 min read
Stop worrying about whatever and look at THIS THING

It is called Conglomeros and is by Victor Brauner from 1945-1946. The last pic is the artist just chillin’ in front of it. ImageImageImageImage Born in Romania in 1903, Brauner’s first works resembled Cézannesque landscapes; then, he testified, he went through all the stages: "Dadaist, Abstractionist, Expressionist"

(Self Portrait, 1923; Portrait of Sașa Pană, 1930; Suicide at Dawn, 1931; Head of Benjamin Fondane, 1931) ImageImageImageImage
Apr 15, 2020 • 42 tweets • 27 min read
"I, for one, am looking forward to absorbing myself in antiquity because I am so deeply tired of the modern world." — Livy

Classical world chillin’ today ImageImageImageImage What were the Greek ships on fire
compared to this loss?

In his tent, Achilles
grieved with his whole being
and the gods saw
he was a man already dead, a victim
of the part that loved,
the part that was mortal.

fr. The Triumph if Achilles by Louise Gluck Image
Apr 12, 2020 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
What is Elly up to today?

(Woman Reading by French painter Victor Gabriel Gilbert, b. 1847 d. 1935) Image What is Elly up to tonight?

(An Evening at Home (1888) by English painter Sir Edward John Poynter, b. 1836 d. 1919) Image
Mar 25, 2020 • 29 tweets • 21 min read
Social distancing as seen in the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson: a thread

(Cafe Lipp, Saint Germain-de-Pres, 1969) Image We begin with examples of social distancing in the 1930s photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson

(Livorno, Italy, 1932; Florence, Italy, 1933; Hyères, France, 1932; Marseille, France, 1932) ImageImageImageImage