contrablog:

 

A fine dose of revenge is in every complaint. Nietzsche

WORLD'S END GARDEN

 ...I am re-begot

Of absence, darknesse, death; things which are not.

John Donne, A Nocturnal Upon S. Lucy's Day, Being The Shortest Day

Part One GARDEN
Part Two PUNISHMENT
Part Three RE-BEGOT
Part Four BOUNDARIES
Part Five SWORD
Part Six BESIEGED
Part Seven BREACHED
Part Eight GARDEN
© Pippa Rathborne 2012

 
Like all histories, this is a product of the imagination, based on real events. Every word is true, but, except for the first person singular and plural, the characters are fictional composites and any resemblance to living persons is unintended and purely coincidental.

I think that whenever one has something unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest


AVENGING HER

detail of the Furies pursuing Orestes from The Remorse of Orestes by Bouguereau, 1862
Chrysler Collection

 HOW IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN

 detail of cherubs and Apollo's horses from Apollo Revealing His Divinity to the Shepherdess Isse by Boucher, 1750. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours