The painting of the so-called Tomb of the Diver, 480 BC, at Paestum, a Greek colony in Italy

The painting of the so-called Tomb of the Diver, 480 BC, at Paestum, a Greek colony in Italy. This rarest example of fresco painting from the period of Classical Greece shows not merely a youth diving into a pool or the sea, but a man making the leap into the world of the dead. Other fragments of the funerary painting on the walls of the sarcophagus depict a funeral banquet with musicians, the close circle of the deceased, and games. On the lid he himself is shown leaping from a great height into the other world

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

The painting of the so-called Tomb of the Diver, 480 BC, at Paestum, a Greek colony in Italy

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

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Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s