Pitcairn Island
Pitcairn is an isolated island in the South Pacific, notable for its unusual history: in 1790, the surviving mutineers from the HMS Bounty [https://en.wikipedia. »
The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood - Selections
> Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs »
The Gormenghast Trilogy, by Mervyn Peake
> Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to »
Richard Dadd - Poetry and Painting
Fairy Fellers' Master-Stroke. 1855–64. Painted while Dadd was a patient at Bethlem Royal Hospital [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital], popularly known »
The Uses of Enchantment, by Bruno Bettelheim
> ...Perrault's original rendering continues with a little poem setting forth the moral to be drawn from the story: that nice girls ought not »