“Magic is the science of love.” -PapusTumblr (3.0; @the-unknown-friend)http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b4d05c5abf51bd617edf7e552608224f/tumblr_mn2524nzeb1r2qy9ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><div class="articleSpanImage"> <p class="caption">A “pan-chess” board included in “Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship.”</p> <div></div> </div></p>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50836424217http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50836424217Sun, 19 May 2013 11:08:28 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m42cztoJYZ1rql0uwo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://armingbd.tumblr.com/post/23100336748/red-squirrel-by-naturenev-on-flickr" target="_blank">armingbd</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturenev/6990424935/" title="Red Squirrel" target="_blank">Red Squirrel</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturenev/" target="_blank">naturenev</a> on Flickr.</p> </blockquote>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50834496313http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50834496313Sun, 19 May 2013 10:43:31 -0700squirrelsanimals<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b142b736bd88cca1b8079e8a27a1e0ce/tumblr_mn12ajWLra1s2nkc5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://nataliakoptseva.tumblr.com/post/50786377907/nataliakoptseva-tumblr-com" target="_blank">nataliakoptseva</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>1517 1518 Léonard de Vinci</p> <p>Animal fantastique probablement pour un automate, Codex Arundel</p> </blockquote>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50834409366http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50834409366Sun, 19 May 2013 10:42:25 -0700da vincidragonsdrawings<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m70tcjxuqb1qghk7bo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://unable-to-lose-this-image.tumblr.com/post/50712971658" target="_blank">unable-to-lose-this-image</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.robertoferri.net/gallery.php" target="_blank">Roberto Ferri</a>, <em>Nocturne</em></p> </blockquote>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50834346322http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50834346322Sun, 19 May 2013 10:41:35 -0700ferrinudeswoman<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7ibtlCJ361ryvwcvo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://floserber.tumblr.com/post/27691348291/henri-rousseau-la-charmeuse-de-serpents-1907" target="_blank">floserber</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Henri Rousseau - La Charmeuse de Serpents, 1907, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.</p> </blockquote>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50789668840http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50789668840Sat, 18 May 2013 22:00:22 -0700rousseau<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrtymkH7uE1qf4p8xo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://ekkolalia.tumblr.com/post/10657167709/the-lady-with-the-rooks-by-edward-calvert" target="_blank">ekkolalia</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The Lady with the Rooks, by Edward Calvert</p> </blockquote>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50789531079http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50789531079Sat, 18 May 2013 21:58:08 -0700calvertshoreham ancientsprints<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/802a9b7350f7c7db3626e2b7a381e66e/tumblr_mmvfhmjOTf1qdjto7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://undr.tumblr.com/post/50559943891/fox-photos-getty-images-paramount-building-in" target="_blank">undr</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.gettyimages.com/" target="_blank">Fox Photos/Getty Images</a></p> <p>Paramount Building in Times Square, New York, towers over Schenley’s Chinese Restaurant 1936</p> </blockquote>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50789280358http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50789280358Sat, 18 May 2013 21:54:11 -0700New York City<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/dfc33ec32ebab1b07eba150904ebd95c/tumblr_mlab8jvTla1rtot15o2_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://buttafuocofaceshooter.tumblr.com/post/48026872950/brian-froud" target="_blank">buttafuocofaceshooter</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Brian Froud. </p> </blockquote>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50788701448http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50788701448Sat, 18 May 2013 21:45:10 -0700froud<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a6fa0717298af158434e751e921af6dc/tumblr_mmbd0eBbSW1sq2a98o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><span>From the Book “Alchemy” by Andrea Aromatico</span></p> </blockquote>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50788362569http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50788362569Sat, 18 May 2013 21:40:02 -0700Alchemyesotericbooksilluminations<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/581b0676f3707194a515faccd746ff1d/tumblr_mn0tsyeqrm1r2qy9ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em><strong>Young Woman Between Leafy Plants</strong></em>, by Otto Mueller</p> <p>Happy Birthday to my Darling Wife, (barnsburntdownnow.tumblr.com).  We saw this today at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.</p>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50773725114http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50773725114Sat, 18 May 2013 18:07:00 -0700“I love you: body shared, undivided. Neither you nor I severed. There is no need for blood shed between us. No need for a wound to remind us that blood exists. It flows within us, from us. Blood is familiar, close.”<br/><br/> - <em><strong>Luce Irigaray</strong>, <em>When Our Lips Speak Together</em> (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://frenchtwist.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">frenchtwist</a>)</em>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50772927432http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50772927432Sat, 18 May 2013 17:55:23 -0700irigarayquotes<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f657f90c9ccc828ebeea6b7d7621bdd4/tumblr_mmxbxk7Q4E1rp2wx5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://denisforkas.tumblr.com/post/50629767073/herri-met-de-bles-the-paradise-1541-1550" target="_blank">denisforkas</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Herri met de Bles - The Paradise. 1541-1550</p> </blockquote>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50772638731http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50772638731Sat, 18 May 2013 17:50:54 -0700de blespaintingsbiblical art<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/52acb292c1685669157c80c21779762d/tumblr_mmzbpoSuqu1s2nkc5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://nataliakoptseva.tumblr.com/post/50709621400/nataliakoptseva-tumblr-com" target="_blank">nataliakoptseva</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Gustave Moreau</p> <p>The Chimera</p> </blockquote>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50772379808http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50772379808Sat, 18 May 2013 17:46:48 -0700moreaumythpaintings<p>What a kind thing to say!  Thank you, Friend.</p>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50771295195http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50771295195Sat, 18 May 2013 17:29:43 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e7dbed2f9cb2f0975675e587bb2e96c5/tumblr_mmyansrEXz1rapk58o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://radomirus.tumblr.com/post/50658372907/aurora-1910-by-odilon-redon" target="_blank">radomirus</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>“Aurora” 1910 by Odilon Redon</span></p> </blockquote>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50742754358http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50742754358Sat, 18 May 2013 10:42:41 -0700redonpaintingsmythsymbolismnudes“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”<br/><br/> - <em><p>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</p> <p>(<a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://franflow.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">franflow</a>)</p></em>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50742598703http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50742598703Sat, 18 May 2013 10:40:28 -0700goethequotes<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljfy12rP3D1qzxsrbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50742151814http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50742151814Sat, 18 May 2013 10:34:07 -0700owl<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9ysp6K8px1qb6ia2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://portionsofeternity.tumblr.com/post/50665671761/the-helga-pictures-study-for-on-her-knees-by" target="_blank">portionsofeternity</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>The Helga Pictures, study for “on her knees” by Andrew Wyeth</em></p> </blockquote>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50741859099http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50741859099Sat, 18 May 2013 10:30:02 -0700Wyethpaintingsnudes<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7tkz0fpct1rp2wx5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://denisforkas.tumblr.com/post/28123099711/j-r-r-tolkien-the-three-trolls-n-d" target="_blank">denisforkas</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>J.R.R. Tolkien - The Three Trolls. N.d.</p> </blockquote>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50741705514http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50741705514Sat, 18 May 2013 10:27:49 -0700tolkienillustrationsthe hobbit“The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work”<br/><br/> - <em>Harriet Martineau, <em>Household Education</em> (Unitarian, author, reformer, journalist)</em>http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50741567990http://the-unknown-friend.tumblr.com/post/50741567990Sat, 18 May 2013 10:25:50 -0700martineauquotes