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

[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!

: D