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He was irresponsible. And he's fascinating because of that : he killed himself in his search for an absolute. He show the follies and the beauty of youth.

Likewise, Icare's myth is beautiful because it's the story of a young man who foolishly tried to get closer to the sun.

My personal favourite:

One of my favourites.

someone posted this in a recent art thread here and i absolutely fell in love with it. amazing.

Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez
And the Ass Saw the Angel, Cave
Various JG Ballard shorts
Outer Dark, McCarthy
William Blake
Manuscript Found in Saragossa, Potocki

Look for some Pieter Breughel (Elder) art books. Dude was wonderful. Bosch and Goya too.

<--- Brugels, Fall of Icarus

Poem about the painting by Auden (formatting is off, but one of my favorites by Auden):

Musee des Beaux Arts

About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

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*troll revitalizes dead thread by resorting to bullshit*

it's a wonderfull world. Commencing art dump.....