βI want to raise up the magic world all round me and live strongly and quietly there.β
β Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. February 1934
The middle finger from the right hand of Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564β1642) is a secular relic in the collection of the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy.The finger was removed from his body after his death and is encased in a gilded glass egg.
Sword, Southern Germany, 1st half of the 16th century
from The Museum of Art and History Geneva
Vintage photo of Venus phases from the Helen Groger-Wurm Papers (World II series). Β© Open Research Library - The Australian National University, Canberra.
We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.
The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula Le Guin
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