More than a decade ago...while still living in Madrid

Yesterday, I had the privilege of talking about Lady Hester Stanhope's link to my hometown through Sir John Moore and the Battle of Corunna in the local archaeological museum.
The young history nerd who loved that place would have been proud of 47 years old me.
Happy Saturday!

Eu vin falar do meu libro.
#ouroenpo
Seguindo as fazañas de Lady Hester Stanhope polo Oriente. E hai conexión galega.

This picture by Marsden Hartley was deemed a perfect depiction of heteronormative masculinity in the 1940s, missing that the artist lust over the model was all over the canvas and that muscular boxer was being objectified.

Venus has twisted her lips in prayer. Agenbite of inwit: remorse of conscience. It is an age of exhausted whoredom groping for its god.
James Joyce. Ulysses.

Wild man by Leonardo da Vinci

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