On [:] Secret | Virginia Woolf, 1931
Georgia O' Keeffe, Shell No. I, 1928 "Yet, we scarcely raised our voices, sitting on the hearth-rug, as we murmuredall...
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On [:] The moon | Charles de Lint
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On [:] Path | Lu Xun, 1881-1936
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On [:] Suburb | Sylvia Plath, 1963
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On [:] Noon | Mervyn Peake, 1950
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On [:] Enslave | Kahlil Gibran, 1918
Edward Burne-Jones, The Tree of Forgiveness, 1882 “I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of...
On [:] Tv | Georgi Gospodinov, 2020
1950s “Your grandmother had an icon, your mother hada little portrait of Lenin, and you have your Tv.” Georgi Gospodinov,...
On [:] Everything | Mieko Kawakami, 2009
James Bolivar Manson, Sparkling Sea, Cornwall, 1920 “Everything was beautiful. Not that there was anyoneto share it with, anyone to...
On [:] Sombreness | P.G. Wodehouse, 1933
Pang Xunqin, The Girl on the Couch, 1930-39 “He was always inclined to read a fictitious sombreness into things when...