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Caravaggio's "Sacrifice of Isaac" on the Cover of Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling"
Caravaggio's "Sacrifice of Isaac" on the cover of Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling". A marriage made in heaven
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Tarkovsky with Little Birds on His Chest
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So "he flew away, but promised to return" is, quite literally, about Christ
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Man leaning over a capsule with a body inside a spacecraft interior
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The ending of the 1968 film “Planet of the Apes” and how it differs from the original novella
Do you remember the ending of the 1968 film Planet of the Apes? When the ruined Statue of Liberty appears on screen, we learn that the action is taking place not on some distant heavenly body but on Earth, which has fallen under the rule of cruel and narrow-minded
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My independence, which is my strength, gives rise to my solitude, which is my weakness
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Why the silent letter b appears in the English words debt and doubt
It turns out that the strange silent “b” in “debt” and “doubt” is a fairly late addition. Borrowed from the French “dette” and “doute”, the words displeased the English intellectuals of the sixteenth century, who resolved to add a “b” to the spelling in order to point to the Latin
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Marie Antoinette's dairy near Rambouillet château, with a grotto and a sculpture of Amalthea
Émile Zola describes the château of Rambouillet, with its forest and surroundings, as a paradise to which one longs to flee from the heat of the stone corridors of Paris, in Au Bonheur des Dames ("The Ladies' Paradise"). To this day it remains one of the most
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Isabelle Adjani in photographs from 1973 and from today
Isabelle Adjani in 1973 and today. A beauty for all seasons
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The Cryptocurrencies That Really Interest Us
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