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One of the earliest surviving self-portraits of a woman in European imagery.

"By 1914, when the whites started killing each other, they controlled eighty five percent of the earth's surface." --Richard Miller, Bohemia (1977)

Wild Peaches.

"Cold Blooded Creatures

Man, the egregious egoist,
(In mystery the twig is bent,)
Imagines, by some mental twist,
That he alone is sentient

Of the intolerable load
Which on all living creatures lies,
Nor stoops to pity in the toad
The speechless sorrow of its eyes.

He asks no questions of the snake,
Nor plumbs the phosphorescent gloom
Where lidless fishes, broad awake,
Swim staring at a night-mare doom."

—Elinor Wylie

"The overthrow of the old intellectual elite and its replacement by the new technological elite, we can now see, opened a cultural hole that has been filled by ideological fervour, financial speculation, and prideful ignorance.." (via Mefi)