The Canvas Lens

Icy liberalism queerly dispensed in impressionistic
sketches
a-l-ancien-regime:

 Attributed to Louis Tessier
Paris circa 1719 - 1781
A marmoset taking sweets on a painted commode

a-l-ancien-regime:

 Attributed to Louis Tessier

Paris circa 1719 - 1781

A marmoset taking sweets on a painted commode

Out of this universal feast of death, out of this extremity of fever, kindling the rain-washed evening sky to a fiery glow, may it be that Love one day shall mount?

—Thomas Mann, from The Magic Mountain, (trans. from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter)

(Source: the-final-sentence)