calliope

Madame Sosostris had a bad cold

Ph.D. in literary and cultural studies, professor, diviner, writer, trans, nonbinary

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thaliarchus
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…strikes me as pretty neat, because it plays with this pre-Raphaelite painting by John William Waterhouse, which was in turn inspired by Keats's poem 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'.

While in the Waterhouse painting the Belle Dame has encircled the knight's neck in her hair, chacolita has rather neatly decided to have Miorine entwining their hair together.

(If you don't know JWW, you might well already have seen his v. famous painting depicting Tennyson's 'Lady of Shalott'.)


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