cheery morning thoughts ~

[lookingland]

Cheek press'd to cheek, there in sweet ecstasy we,
Falling asleep under the old locust-tree,
Smiling in dream, seem in a heaven to live,
For such a night who his whole life would not give?

~ Mihai Eminescu, "Eve On The Hill"
(1885, Translated by P. Grimm)

read about this eternal embrace recently unearthed in italy.

Comments

[gwyn-hwyfar.livejournal.com]

I'm stealing and reposting this!! Incredible!

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

yay ~ ! spread the joy!

it really is amazing.

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[jamiekswriter.livejournal.com]

I saw this too this morning! I can't wait to see if they find out who they were and what their story was.

And I really hope they are embracing and that the skellies just didn't shift that way.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

it does appear that they are really embracing ~ it's definitely a powerful image! i don't know whether they will learn the whole story, but it's a wonderful thing to conjecture about.

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[gwyn-hwyfar.livejournal.com]

Did you look at the slide show? There are other photos where you can see their legs, and they are all spooned together. It's really sweet.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

like kittens ~ !

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[sparowe]

Amazing.

[keesa-renee.livejournal.com]

Hmm! You know, I've never seen this picture...but I think I've heard of it before. (Maybe it was a different picture, but I think it was this one.) In fact, we published a story at DKA not too long ago, Sorrow's Shroud (http://www.dkamagazine.com/item.php?sub_id=64) by Rachel A. Marks, that was inspired by...either this picture or one just like it, two skeletons embracing.

If you haven't yet, I highly suggest you read the story...it's quite beautiful.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

oh, that's very interesting! i think there have been other embracing skeletons found elsewhere (this one was just in the news so it seems maybe too recent for memory?). i know there were certainly lots of embracing ash heaps from pompeii and the like.

any way you slice it, it's a very compelling image.

thank you for the link to the story!

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